Windows 10: Optimize and Defrag Drives in Windows 10

Hello Shawn now mate does that go for 7 installs as well and I use the CCleaner for checking the reg in 7 and 10 is it a no no??
John*Smile

 

Defrag is fine, but never clean the registry.

Personally, I wouldn't do either one considering how much of a disaster it would be if the registry was messed up, and how very little you would gain from a defrag.

 

I was just curious(and a little bored... so), of what the printed & verbose output would be when retrim was done, so here it is to share.
Command was defrag c: /l /v /u
"L" being the retrim command for C:





You can then see how much of your SSD was trimmed.

 

Hello,

my drive's fragmentation status won't go below 20% (C: drive). What gives? Not a SSD.

 

It could be your Pagefile, hyberfil, swapfile and system volumn information that are fragmented, and cannot be defragment inside of Windows.

Here is what I used to do to get a better defrag, when I used HDDs:

First I installed Defraggler from Piriform: Defraggler - File and Disk Defragmentation - Free Download
So I could defrag in safe mode(Optimize drives doesn't function in safe mode, so you need a 3rd party defragmenter)
In Advanced Settings(Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\System)I would shut of system restore temporarily and delete all restore points by turning System Protection off:




Then I would turn off the page file(virtual memory).

Then boot into safe mode, run Defraggler, and before booting back into Windows, select Defragglers Boot-Time Defrag***\run once, which allows you to defrag files that are normally locked by the Operating System before the operating system is fully loaded.

Then you can turn Page file, and system restore back on(remember to create a restore point immediately after).

Piriform - Boot Time Defrag

 

You can defrag system disk outside of Windows for the best results.

Boot Windows USB - Repair - Troubleshoot - CMD - type/enter:

c:
cd windows
cd system32
defrag c: /u

 

Michal, you just now how to make things less complicated(less steps, more effective)*Thumbs

 

figured out that it wont defrag large files in windowapps folder.
had a 4gb game file in windowsapps and it was at the front of drive.
had to bypass security to gain access to the folder and then use O&O defrag and it moved it to a different spot on the drive.

actually I dont think windows built in defrag likes defragging large files.

I been using auslogics defrag to do quick defrags. and it always defrag large files and puts them some where else.

but for some reason auslogic wont touch the windowapps folder.

 

So Shawn do you think I shouldn't check the reg with CCleaner in 7 or 10?? as I always back up the results to merge back if I mess up?? Plus I back up the original install registry whenever I do reinstall??

As I don't have any spinners to think about much I would do a defrag on my SSD's at all.

 

Hey John, *Smile

You could still optimize your SSDs if determined needed if you like. It will TRIM them instead of defrag.

I'm not a fan of registry cleaners.There's just way too much of a risk of an aggressive program doing damage than what very little gain you may get from cleaning/defraging the registry. If one does do so, I would recommend to create a system image first to be on the safe side.

 

Ok Shawn have got that I do image and the small pieces of "change" left from the CC sweep is usually very small if any and I have never to my knowledge had any reg cleaners tune up rubbish used on my machines just the CC .

I have done your Optimise 10 tutorial/s on the machines and did out of curiosity check the TRIM status of the machines and all set ok. I went super pedantic and used the command prompt method and they all came back = 0

I did mean to ask though what the result with ReFS is about? as I haven't seen that before - using 7 of course. Having said that I did get the impression that Microsoft is making changes to the NTFS system?? and such changes makes me feel a little "edgy" as to what those changes if I have it right are going to impact on.

 

I have a data HDD that has been formatted with ReFS for a while now, and so far I haven't had any issues with it.

I haven't heard about any changes for NTFS though.

 

Thanks Shawn I shall have to do some reading up on that to see just what it involves. I suppose if it is going to make things a little easier then all well and good.

By the by am getting quite used to using 10 as much as 7 now and after you have picked yourself up off of the floor grab a cup a caffeine mate*Cool

 

I'm glad to hear that you're getting in the swing of things with Windows 10.

 

So I guessed you didn't get knocked out falling off your chair LOL!!

I do have a little problem with emails but I shall post a thread.