Defrag vista free space

It completed in a few minutes and showed that the Windows Defrag had done most of the work but for some reason had failed to finish. Does anyone know why? I have decided to disabled Windows Defrag and will use Auslogics version in future, as it gives information regards the progress of the defrag, and seems to be far more efficient and quick.

However, I am very surprised by the amount of free space that the defrag process has freed up. I have searched on various pc forums, and other posters have said the complete opposite to my own experience. The common consensus seems to be that defraging reduces the amount of free space on a disk rather than increase it! There also seems to be a difference of opinion about how much free space one should leave on a hard disc to enable the pc to run efficiently.

I would be grateful for any assistance that anyone can give me, in particular, why the defrag freed up in my instance so much free space. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 6. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. In reply to A.

User's post on February 18, Using another defragger will fight with Windows. As to why you observed a change in disk usage. System Restore - this could be it. Disk Cleanup - it will run by itself is space is critically low 3. If you look on download sites like Softpedia. Although you had VSS disabled, and no Restore Points and since Windows will sometimes not obey give something a try just to see if it works, although it may not work:.

Sorry I'm on XP and don't know which order this one should actually be done in. Also don't forget to run the disk error checker ChkDsk, sometimes if there's disk errors that can reclaim space allocated as free. You may also want to look at Microsoft's Support site, perhaps they have info on the issue since you used a 3rd party defrag tool.

Hmm, I don't really dare to run Defraggler again to be honest, I will maybe try to use your method though and see if it has any effect on the free space. Aha, haven't tried that yet, I will try that 'tomorrow' since it's here. I'll keep you updated! I will do a ChkDsk also, just to be sure. And I will post something on the Microsoft Support site if all of this doesn't work, thanks for the tip!

Perhaps it's the same depending upon the OS although Windows 10 finishes checking a disk so fast when inside "This PC" I don't know if it's really fully checking the disk when manually started. It only deleted the recovery point I made. Also performed a ChkDsk on restart, it took a couple of hours so I left while it was going, came back, I've no idea if there were any errors Not sure how to check the report but the free space didn't came back. It's still the same as before unfortunately.

This means I will post something on the Microsoft Support Site soon. Thanks for your help, I still hope that someone will come by who can solve this mystery. To find out if Check Disk found errors you have to look in the Event Viewer at the log. Although the log still won't give much info that makes much sense if it corrected errors. Ah thanks, I've found the 'Wininit' log after googling , it says that there were no errors detected.

Anyway, I'll keep you guys updated about this case, will post on the Microsoft Support Site tomorrow. Hey guy's. Cant find any additional Restore Points Hi mta and happy easter. Been thinking about using my last restore point that was created by Revo uninstaller An hour or so before running DF. Well, there's your problem. No, using a Restore Point won't help you here, you don't want to take Windows back to a saved point in time. Go back to the previous screen and re-crate one straight away if you are cautious, but Windows will create one quick enough anyway.

Thanks mta. Deleting some system restore points will not give disk space back as windows permanently assigns some hard drive space for system restore, you can reduce the disk space assigned for system restore, try the below steps.

Click the start menu 2. Click on All Programs, and then Accessories 3. From the accessories menu, right click on Command Prompt and select "run as administrator" 4. Type vssadmin list shadowstorage into the command prompt 5.

The results should tell you the amount of storage used and the maximum amount allotted 1. You should get a message saying successfully resized the shadow copy storage association, and you should have more free space on your hard drive. The disk defragmentation might have taken up hard drive space if there are errors on the drive. But I will go with your advice. The steps above work for Windows Vista! Thanks mta all is good again. You'd only want archival access to less than 10 restore points I would think, if you are into them.

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It took 8 minutes alone to analyze the drive. By now, contig. On top of that, it took Windows Vista 75 more minutes to defragment the hard-drive. As you can easily see, the new tools we will introduce to you will greatly cut your defragmentation time. Please note a different tool was used to display the charts above. The charts did not come from the programs used in the tutorial. Disclaimer: Not everybody will defrag within 8 minutes because the level of fragmentation on each hard drive is different.

The point I am trying to get across is that Power Defrag can defrag in a fraction of the time it takes Windows Defrag to defragment. Click here to download Power Defragmenter and Contig. They are both bundled together here. What you need to know about contig is that it is a bit different than the other defragment programs out there — it is a single-file defragmenter. If contig determines that the file can be optimized, it is then moved into the free spaces of the disk.

No installation is required. The next step is to run Power Defragmenter. Click next , and you will arrive at the screen below:. Defragment File s : Allows you to defragment up to 4 files Defragment Folder s : Allows you to defragment up to 4 folders Defragment Disk: Allows you to defragment a disk PowerMode TM Disk Defragmentation: Defragments at a power equivalent to two consecutive defragmentations. Time does not necessarily double.