To accelerate your computer, regularly
defragment the contents of the
system hard disk. However, during
the defragment process, important
elements such as the swap file are
skipped, resulting in the slowing down
of the computer.



Windows and the current
defragmenters cannot access the files
which have been exclusively opened by
the system. Therefore, the registry data
and the swap file are usually ignored
during the optimization. However, these
files are used frequently and they take
up a large amount of space.

Therefore,
their fragmenting slows down the system
significantly. But then again, there are
specialists to solve every problem. The
tool ‘Pagedefrag’ uses the start phase
of the PCs to defragment the registry
and swap file. During the start phase,
Windows can access them.
After unpacking the zip archive, the
tool can be readied for use by just calling
‘pagedefrag.exe’ without any further
installation processes.

It first shows how
many clusters occupy the respective
system files and how ‘fragmented’
they are. Besides the swap file, and the
branches of the Registry, the tool also
processes event protocols as well as the
stand-by mode file. Its size corresponds to
the quantity of the installed main memory.
APPlicAtion: For one time execution,
select the option ‘Defragment at next
boot’ and click on ‘OK’.

Then, restart
the computer. While booting, the tool
completes its task and creates a status
report. You can check the progress by
calling Pagedefrag in Windows again
and checking the actual status in the
Pagedefrag dialog box. This kind of
defragmentation must be repeated from
time to time. You will be rewarded with
remarkably shorter booting and shut down
times for your computer.

AutomAtion: To automate the process,
select the option ‘Defragment every boot’
in the Pagedefrag dialog box, change
the value for ‘Defrag abort countdown’
to ‘0’, and confirm with ‘OK’. In future,
‘pagedefrag’ checks the status every time
the system starts and then optimizes
the files if required. The check takes just
under a second.


If you do not wish to run the check
on every boot, you can also automate
the execution with the Task Planner.
Use command ‘pagedefrag -o -t 0’ in the
command prompt for that. It is used for
one-time defragmentation on booting the
next time.