Otak Atik [dot] Com » defrag http://www.otakatik.com Empowering Computer Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:42:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Optimizing Write Allocation of File http://www.otakatik.com/optimizing-write-allocation-of-file/ http://www.otakatik.com/optimizing-write-allocation-of-file/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:38:05 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=125 To make your hard drive health, one of the ways is manage when hard drive is wrote. Because if the operating system have well structured when it is writing, your hard drive won’t fragmented easily. Unfortunately, Windows XP doesn’t do that by standard configurations. Thanks to Registry hacked, that make you have a better configuration to make your hard drive be better.

And here is the way:

  1. Open Registry Editor by click Start -> Run, enter regedit in box and then press Enter.
  2. Navigate to registry path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ OptimalLayout.
  3. Find EnableAutoLayout value, if you don’t find it, create the new one by right click on empty space on right panel and then choose New -> String value menu.
  4. Replace the original value with EnableAutoLayout.
  5. Change its value data by double click EnableAutoLayout value, replace the original value with 1 and then click OK button.
  6. Close Registry Editor and then restart your computer.
  7. Actually, you can’t see its progress because your Windows XP will optimize the hard drive when the processor in idle mode. But at least, your Windows XP is better now.

To bring it back, just remove EnableAutoLayout value or give it value: 0.

]]> http://www.otakatik.com/optimizing-write-allocation-of-file/feed/ 0 Restore Troubled Defrag http://www.otakatik.com/restore-troubled-defrag/ http://www.otakatik.com/restore-troubled-defrag/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:01:17 +0000 Edi Kwie http://www.otakatik.com/?p=116 Defrag is an important tool in Windows XP. With Defrag tool, you can re-arrange your fragmented hard drive. I always use it every weeks to ensure my hard drive is keeping arranged. Usually, my way to using defrag is right click my hard drive icon inside My Computer, click Tools tab and then click Defragment Now… button. But suddenly, it didn’t work today, when I click Defragment Now… button, the Defrag application didn’t show up. But I’ve been repaired it, and here is the way.

  1. Click Start -> Run menu, enter %SYSTEMROOT%\Inf in box and then press Enter key.
  2. Find dfrg.inf file.
  3. Right click it and then click Install menu.
    Install menu
  4. Wait for a moment and then retry to open your hard drive properties again, click Tools tab and then click Defragment Now… button.
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