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| 536561 | 2007-03-29 00:09:00 | About once every 5 months I have to reinstall windows XP because it becomes slow, taking about 20 mins to boot up, normally under 5. I have done a defrag of my C drive which has windows on it and find that the files that cannot be moved broken up and all over the place, see image. The computer is still slow to boot. users.actrix.co.nz I presume these are the system files. When I first installed windows they were in one green block. Can this be fixed without a windows install ? What causes this to happen ? Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 536562 | 2007-03-29 00:12:00 | I take it, you're defragging in safe mode? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 536563 | 2007-03-29 00:15:00 | I think you will find the green files are your page file. For a better defrag shift your page file to another drive. |
radium (8645) | ||
| 536564 | 2007-03-29 00:56:00 | Thanks guys. The green files were the paging files and I shifted them to another drive, and did a defrag in safe mode. Everything seems to be working OK now. Trevor :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 536565 | 2007-03-29 02:32:00 | I think you will find the green files are your page file. For a better defrag shift your page file to another drive. correct and good advice......a static page file also fixes this! |
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