Patrick Elliott wrote:
> Uh. Doing that requires shutting up off, then rebooting, then defraging 
> the drive, then turning it on again.. 

If you don't have enough space to put a pagefile on your machine that's 
contiguous, then you're going to get fragmented files and all. Yep, yep, yep!

> Well, lets just say that, at least 
> one person trying this had it render the OS unbootable. I would rather 
> let the damn thing just handle it itself, which should include imho, 
> occationally using some idle time to restructure the file, so its 
> contiguous (like duh!). Near as I can tell, it isn't doing that at all 
> as part of normal operations.

It defrags everything else that way. Just not the pagefile. Because, you 
know the page file is usually open, and it's pretty easy to defrag it at 
boot time if you want.

Of course, if you don't have enough free space to make a block of disk big 
enough to hold a page file, then no, it's not going to defrag.

> Got to be about the one and only reason I am looking at getting 7, so it 
> doesn't have the memory limits XP did. 

The only XP memory limits I know of was running into the 4G boundary. And 
apparently that's a licensing thing - seems XP x86 is happy to use however 
much memory you put in there, except that Microsoft tells it not to.

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