[Klug-general] Defragging Vista

[Dan Attwood]

Have you tried ccleaner?

Running that first will help clear up any DLL rot and clear out temp files.
Which in turn means less rubbish to defray.
On 5 Oct 2010 05:33, "James Morris" <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> Don't you just love defragmenting Windows Vista NTFS partitions?
> Don't you just love that you have to download a piece of software not
> by Microsoft to do the job properly?
>
> So that you can shrink the partition without damaging Windows?
>
> I just can't quite convey the fun I'm having!
>
> I ventured into my first LAN experiment - setting up an NFS partition
> - and backed up 9.6GB of data from the Windows laptop (from within
> Linux) to my desktop running Linux before I started the above. Then
> backed up a further 5.5GB of data onto a USB stick because it was
> faster.
>
> Have uninstalled a 233mb dvd burning application and various other
> junk software applications commonly plaguing Windows installs.
>
> Have managed to shrink the Vista partition by roughly 8GB but want to
> shrink it some more, so am defragging with the 'optimize' option of
> the Auslogics Disk Defragmentor.
>
>
> All To give more room to Linux - Hurray! :-)
>
>
>
> James.
>
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