re: Defragging Windows Swap File
Sunday, March 10, 2002 at 5:50 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Susan W. Simpson
(3 messages posted)
Richard: Thank you! I ran Defrag in Safe Mode and it worked fine! I did have to disable
the
screen saver because the process kept starting over again. Just as an aside, I am
new to
Win98. When I got it I found under System Tools a "handy" maintenance scheduler,
which I
set up to let the computer run scan disk every week. All this time I thought it was
running
scan disk every week, but now I doubt that it has been. I ran scandisk in Safe Mode
and it
took seven hours. So I have totally disabled the "handy" maintenance tool, and will
run the
procedures myself, often. Thank you again for your help. Susan W. Simpson
On Friday, March 8, 2002 at 7:55 am, Richard Reed wrote:
>Dear Ms. Simpson:
>
>I have seen the 'drive contents changed - restarting' message, too, but usually
only
>when running Windows in normal mode, not Safe Mode. This happens when Defrag discovers
>that it needs more memory than Windows has allocated for it resorts *itself* to
using
>swap-file (virtual) memory. I'm not sure whether it has the capability to create
>its own swap file on the fly or must use win386.swp.
>
>You probably have a very large number of files on your hard drive, causing Defrag
>to need lots of memory to keep track of them.
>
>It's been my experience that Defrag will eventually complete the operation if you
>just wait long enough. Another suggestion is to run Defrag repeatedly in the hope
>that as it finds less and less work to do (i.e., more and more of the drive is already
>defragged), it will need less and less memory in which to do it. I've also had to
>do this occasionally with a really cluttered and fragmented drive.
>
>Hope this helps; let me know.
>
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