system files (registry, pagefile.sys)

[Sebastien WILLEMIJNS]

Hello,

When UD defrags by default, is pagefile/hiberfil is defragmented too ? ;)

[Dmitri Arkhangelski]

Hi,

If you mean pagefile and hiberfile belonging to the running system,
UltraDefrag cannot defragment them until you'll enable the boot time
defragmentation and then reboot the computer. These files aren't excluded by
filters by default, but they are usually locked by Windows which prevents
defragmenting them.

If you're running the boot time defragmentation, be sure, both paging file and
hiberfil.sys will be processed, because they are included in boot time
defragmentation by default.

[Sebastien WILLEMIJNS]

thanks of your quick answer ;)

set UD_IN_FILTER=windows;winnt;ntuser;pagefile;hiberfil

set UD_EX_FILTER=temp

only these file will be done at the boot ? or/and all others files too as
c:\progra~1 ?

[Dmitri Arkhangelski]

To defragment everything delete both filter set commands or just comment them
by adding a leading semicolon character. Detailed information is here: http:/
/ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Console.html Environment variables have the same meaning
both for the boot time defragger and the command line tool.

[Sebastien WILLEMIJNS]

ok, last coment, i think wait 10s + a couple of seconds after

during "press a key" is very long :-( hope than we can change it soon...

for me 3 second is good for the both wait state.

[Andrei Maksimov]

I have enough hard disk space, but still, the file is not pagefil.sys
defragments the boot. Why?

[Andrei Maksimov]

Windows 7 Prof.

set UD_IN_FILTER=windows;winnt;ntuser;pagefile;hiberfil

set UD_EX_FILTER=temp

udefrag c:

[Stefan Pendl]

Could you please post the fraglist.txt resulting from the boot time defrag and
the entire boot script?

If you like to include the files, you need to open a support request at the
tracker.

---

Stefan

[Andrei Maksimov]

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

; Fragmented files on C:

;

; Fragments Filesize Comment Filename

;-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

2 3219128320 - C:\pagefile.sys

And what is "the entire boot script"?

[Andrei Maksimov]

sorry)))

set UD_IN_FILTER=windows;winnt;ntuser;pagefile;hiberfil

set UD_EX_FILTER=temp

udefrag c:

udefrag d:

pause 1000

exit

[Andrei Maksimov]

pagefile.sys on disk C: (C:\pagefile.sys).

[Stefan Pendl]

It can happen, that there is a problem with moving parts of the file to
consolidate the fragments.

The next version will include a status column in the reports, so one can
better tell what is going wrong.

---

Stefan

[Anonymous]

OK. I will wait if the new releases to check it out! While I will not take
action for manual defragmentation (by removing the file and create a new one).

[H M]

Hi, I tried to use the default boot time scan to defrag pagefile.

It seems it always runs at boot time and always analyses the boot disk. Is
there a way to configure such that the boot time scan can be scheduled to run
like once a week, and also won't analyse the boot disk.

That way, I won't get a slowdown on every boot, and when the boot scan does
execute, UltraDefrag would go straight to defrag the pagefile, etc. w/o
analyzing disk first.

Thanks.

[Stefan Pendl]

HM,

To disable boot time scanning put "boot-off" before "exit" in the script.

You can create a scheduled task to enable boot time scanning by executing the
"boot-on" command.

For Windows Vista and higher make sure to execute the task by the System
account.

The analysis is needed to get the information about the free space available
and the fragmented file.

We can not avoid this currently.

---

Stefan

[Thomas Wilmot]

Hello,

I have been trying to use UltraDefrag 7.0.2 to optimize and defragment my hard disk drive on my IBM ThinkPad running Windows XP, SP3. I have gotten it to work pretty well, but when looking at the report, my 3 GB pagefile.sys still has 116 fragments, even after multiple optimization/defragmentations at boot time! I have changed all the size thresholds in the options.lua configuration file to 4 GBs to be safe. My Boot Time Shell Script is as follows:

@echo off
;--------------------------------------------------------------------
;                UltraDefrag Boot Time Shell Script
;--------------------------------------------------------------------
; !!! NOTE: THIS FILE MUST BE SAVED IN UNICODE (UTF-16) ENCODING !!!
;--------------------------------------------------------------------

set UD_IN_FILTER=*windows*;*winnt*;*ntuser*;*pagefile.sys;*hiberfil.sys
set UD_EX_FILTER=*temp*;*tmp*;*dllcache*;*ServicePackFiles*

; to exclude archives too uncomment the following lines:
; set UD_EX_FILTER=%UD_EX_FILTER%;*.7z;*.7z.*;*.arj;*.bz2;*.bzip2;*.cab;*.cpio
; set UD_EX_FILTER=%UD_EX_FILTER%;*.deb;*.dmg;*.gz;*.gzip;*.lha;*.lzh;*.lzma
; set UD_EX_FILTER=%UD_EX_FILTER%;*.rar;*.rpm;*.swm;*.tar;*.taz;*.tbz;*.tbz2
; set UD_EX_FILTER=%UD_EX_FILTER%;*.tgz;*.tpz;*.txz;*.xar;*.xz;*.z;*.zip

; uncomment the following line to create debugging output
; set UD_DBGPRINT_LEVEL=DETAILED

; uncomment the following line to save debugging information to a log file
; set UD_LOG_FILE_PATH=%UD_INSTALL_DIR%\Logs\defrag_native.log

udefrag -q --repeat --show-cluster-map --show-volume-information c:

boot-off

Thanks,
Thomas

[Dmitri Arkhangelski]

Hello,

As the paging file is huge, it requires a lot of continuous free space on the disk to be defragmented. The best way to deal with the problem is to completely disable paging for a while (go to Control Panel > System > Advanced > Performance > Advanced > Virtual Memory to do that), then run the full optimization at boot, and then reenable paging again if you need it. Of course, the best results can be achieved if you disable paging forever and install additional RAM modules instead. They aren't expensive at all nowadays and work much faster than paging. I have no idea whether it would be technically easy on your computer to upgrade RAM or not, but nevertheless the principle remains the same.

Best regards,
Dmitri