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to: David Blair
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2005-02-01 12:38:10
subject: Re: XP Swap file: delete?

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Get a copy of Perfect Disk 7 from www.raxco.com, they have a free 30 day
trial, that I believe is fully functional. It WILL defrag the swap, hey,
it's worth a try for free.....

--
Glenn M.


"David Blair"  wrote in message
news:41ffcb80$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> No, the PC is a laptop. I finally resigned myself to using the XP CD
> recovery console. 
>
> And Glenn- I'll look for that defragger. I've been using Diskkeeper, and
it
> does have a boot option, but it won't defrag the swapper without
contiguous
> space.
>
> Unfortunately, this didn't resolve the issue, so I have a new thread to
> start.
>
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:41ffb714{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Do you have another drive to create a paging file on?
> >
> > If so the easiest solution seems to be
> >
> > create a temp paging file on the other drive/delete the old paging file
> >
> > defragment the drive that had the old paging file
> >
> > recreate the original drive's paging file/ delete the temp paging file
> >
> > cheapest
> > "David B"  wrote in message
> > news:41ffa560$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >>I have a PC with a horrendously fragmented swap file. I've optimised it
to
> >>hell and back, but I can't ge tthe sapper to defrag because there is no
> >>way to create enough space for it to be made contiguous for some reason.
> >>
> >>
> >> Is there any way to delete it at boot time?
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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