How To Speedup Defrag Operation In Windows XP
A well known way to speed up a defrag operation in Windows XP is restart the system before you launch the Defrag application. After restarting windows operating system it clears out the paging file and to reset it to the default. This lets defrag is only applied on the necessary data on the hard disk, without having to manage a huge swap data.
Apart from this traditional method, another method to speeding up a defrag operation with simple registry edit, so that defrag operation occur immediately upon startup.
Note: Before go for editing registry, backup your windows registry so that we can minimize the risk.
- Go to Start menu Click on Run type regedit.exe hit enter to launch registry editor
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
- Click on RunOnce subkey and select New | String Value.
- Then name the new value #1 to Defrag and Hit [Enter] twice.
- Type Defrag.exe c: /f in the Value Data text box and click OK.
- Close the Registry Editor and restart Windows.
The defrag operation will begin during system startup. (Keep in mind that values added to the RunOnce key is to be removed immediately after the command has been run.)
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Thanks for the tip I run Windows XP and had to do this!
Although I much prefer other software than Windows one as you can find other software that does it when you are not doing anything (Idle)