I haven't been able to properly game the whole time!

[hyuri]

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Hyuri>uptime
\\LILITH has been up for: 3 day(s), 8 hour(s), 47 minute(s), 5 second(s)

she's been defragging the whole time. she's not done.

annual defrags are a bad idea, kids. weekly is a much better option.

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on a brownie. dammit.

Comments

[caosadinfinitum.livejournal.com]

jesus christ... what's your storage capacity? Is it just so hoorj that it's taking that long, or do you just have 8095472958036 files that haven't seen appropriate juggling in a year?

[hyuri.livejournal.com]

4 drives, 6 partitions, 540 GB, 663,352 files, ~480 GB used.

I really need more space.

[science-vixen.livejournal.com]

I use JKDefrag (http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/) daily when I go to bed.
I just start it, and it has an option to shutdown the PC when it's done.
During boot it also defrags the sys files and registry if needed (only tekes 2 seconds extra boot time) which really helps the spoeed of my machine.

Sorry new keyboard

[science-vixen.livejournal.com]

Argh the typos in this....

[hyuri.livejournal.com]

The biggest problem was, as mentioned (sort of), the fact that I've never actually defragged since I last installed Windows. So a couple of partitions actually had >25% fragmentation, including the 300 GB one. Which has ~7.5 GB free.

I still haven't touched C: though. That one kinda scares me to think about.

[science-vixen.livejournal.com]

There you have a real problem.
If you want to defrag in Windows you actually need to have something like 20% free. Then defrag can just shuffle stuff around.
With less then that, windows needs to store the files it's de fragmenting into it's virtual memory while it's trying to juggle the moving bits.
with only 7.5GB free instead of 60 you actually have a reasonable change that you'll fragment stuff even worse.

I don't suppose you have 52GB free on another disk?

also, windows has this option to automatically compress older files. This might be worthwhile (if some serial DVD burning sessions aren't).

[hyuri.livejournal.com]

I know, there's all these things I should do...

But if I weren't too lazy to do them, I'd have done them long since. And it is defragging, it just takes a few passes to get done. Which I've long known was the price of doing business with a heavily fragmented partition and standard Windows defrag tools (O&O, in this case).