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Defragment
For : Microsoft Windows NT5 - Windows 2000 Pro / Windows Xp by : je.saist Note: Mepisguides is aimed towards the user who is moving from Windows and is not familiar with Linux interface systems. Many of the steps such as opening up a browser and selecting a web page are shown in the Linux guides. Since it is presumed that most readers of Mepisguides are fairly competent with Windows, many of these minor steps are intentionally skipped. There is also minimal effort to hide Paint during the screen capture process, as Microsoft Windows provides no other native screen capture solution. I am also presuming that Firefox is already installed under Windows. Defragment Part 1 | Defragment Part 2
Over Part 1 of Defragmenting we covered getting to the in-built Microsoft provided tool, which proved to be ineffectual in properly defragmenting an NTFS drive. So, we went out and got JkDefrag, a GPL'd defrag utility. We last got to our extracted files and clicked on the JkDefrag.exe file to launch the program. 15: Unlike Microsoft's tool, JkDefrag is automatic. As soon as it is opened, it already has started. Get comfy, this may take a while.  16: Here we are about an hour later, and JkDefrag says that it has finished defragging the drive. We can go ahead and Close JkDefrag.  17. Alright, I've gone back and repeated steps 1 - 4 in part 1. While there still is some white-space left, Microsoft's Analysis now shows that only one sliver of fragmented files remains, and the end of the drive is clear. Seems like JkDefrag did a much better job. We are not done yet though. See those green bars? Those are System Files, or files that are in use by Windows and other open programs. We need to make sure that they are defragemented too. In my case, I don't have any Green files near the end of the drive, so this isn't as big an issue as it could be.  18: The bad news is that System Files cannot be defragged while Windows is in use, and creating a BartPE disc goes outside the scope of normal user use. We need a solution that is pratical, free, and hopefully easy. Microsoft provides a solution in the form of PageDefrag through the TechNet portion of Microsoft.com. Since this tool is fairly well buried, you can get it from this link: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx  19: You may need to scroll down the page to find the download link. Left Click on Download PageDefrag  20: Let Firefox save to disk  21: When PageDefrag finishes, Left Click on Open in the Download box.  22: Going back to Part 1, we encounter a similar divergance with extracting the files.  23: For Pagedefrag, I am going to extract to C:\defrag2  24: After the files are extracted, go to the extraction location. In my case it is C:\defrag2 Double Left Click on pagedfrg  25: Microsoft's license agreement will come up. This about a normal license as you can get. Left Click on Agree if you agree.  26: PageDefrag is fairly simple, but it only goes after a few select system folders. PageDefrag also gives some options on whether to defrag on the next boot, or every boot.  27. Speaking for myself, I go ahead and let PageDefrag work on every boot. If you do not feel comfortable with yet another Microsoft product running at boot time, just chose to only Defragment at next boot. Once decided, Left Click on OK.  28: Restart the computer.  When the system reboots, defragmentation is pretty much accomplished for our drive. However, there is one more item I would like to cover. One of the JkDefrag files allows it to operate as a ScreenSaver for Windows. This might be acceptable to users who cannot remember to defrag on a monthly basis. While defragging everyday might be overkill, some users may perfer this behavior. 1: To install JkDefrag as a screensaver, simply Copy the JkDefragScreenSaver.scr file  2: Windows 2000 : Paste the file into C:\Winnt\system32 Windows Xp : Paste the file into C:\Windows\system32  3: Now when we check our screen saver list, JkDefragScreenSaver should be an option.  I need to go back to Part 1 and see steps 1 - 4 again. I think I'm ready to Resize my Windows Drive, where is the guide? Take me back to the Guides. |