how can i defrag page files?

[PUBZOMBIE]

Hi guys,
i am trying to do some house cleaning on my laptop. when i defrag the page files will not defragment, how can i clean these up, or delete them if it is safe to do so.
cheers
pz

[m1dget]

Originally Posted by PUBZOMBIE

Hi guys,
i am trying to do some house cleaning on my laptop. when i defrag the page files will not defragment, how can i clean these up, or delete them if it is safe to do so.
cheers
pz

lol what?!?

Seriously since you are running windows, just restart it if you think the pagefile has become too big and is slowing down your laptop. Touching swap space of any OS would probably just result in instability or ye olde OS panicking

If you were on linux I would just tell you to swapoff, redo swap partition and remount the swap but on windows, restart.

[AkG]

Sysinternals FTW. To bad MS bought them and basically killed em.

Here ya go. Pagedefrag:

PageDefrag

[m1dget]

Originally Posted by AkG

Sysinternals FTW. To bad MS bought them and basically killed em.

And at the risk of looking a bit stupid, does that thing even work when the OS start swapping a lot? I mean no instability whatsoever? o_O

[AkG]

It will basically do its thing BEFORE the system is up and running. Nice thing is it tells you how fragemented the pagefile is and if you want to defrag on next reboot...or every reboot. Simple and easy to use :)

[Jack Rabbit]

Setting the swap space to 0M then turning it back on will do it. You will have to reboot to make the change. Setting it to a fixed size (both max and min the same) will prevent Windows from fragmenting it.

[AkG]

Even if you set it to a fixed size....it WILL fragment. Just more slowly.

[frontier204]

+1 to Jack Rabbit's suggestion - that's what I do when I first set up Windows or if I move the page file to another drive

When I am being paranoid I use a BartPE disk Bart's Preinstalled Environment (BartPE) bootable live windows CD/DVD that I preload with MyDefrag (aka JkDefrag) MyDefrag v4.2.7 to perform the defragmentation, so I can get at all the stuff Windows locks out while it is running (hibernation file, system restore, etc).

BTW does PageDefrag work on Win7 / Vista now? When I tried it in the past, my computer would restart but no defrag would happen.

[AkG]

Unforuntaly, no. Pagedefrag and all the other systinternal goodies are for XP only. Like I said those SOB's at redmond bought them out and killed em (though IIRC the main programmers are still working at MS).

[m1dget]

Originally Posted by AkG

It will basically do its thing BEFORE the system is up and running. Nice thing is it tells you how fragemented the pagefile is and if you want to defrag on next reboot...or every reboot. Simple and easy to use :)

Waiwaiwaiwait... what?

Is it just me or that doesn't make any sense? Why would you fragment something at startup when the pagefile is supposed to be 'clean'? o_O