Since I have a laptop provided by my employer (Government) I cannot have full access to some Windows' functions such as the onboard defrag utiliy or installing a registry cleaner. This is clearly a problem if I want to do some maintenance to the system, so I was wondering if you can provide a reliable and portable (for usb pen drive) defrag utility and a registry cleaner.
Thanks a lot for your attention
Francesco
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Registry cleaner and defrag utility for usb pen?
April 7, 2007 - 4:16am
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Registry cleaner and defrag utility for usb pen?
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Contig
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/contig.mspx
Command-line utility that doesn't seem to need to save any settings. Maybe a newer version has a popup EULA thingy that uses the registry. I dunno.
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its doable cause defrag and reg-cleaning processes require to be deep in the system.
So it would only work on Admin accounts.
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A combination of "Power Defragmenter GUI 2.0.125" by "eXcessive Software"
http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/
(Free) and "Contig v1.54" from Microsoft (unfortunately, they bought WinInternals)
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/Contig.mspx
(also Free) works GREAT. The GUI will not recognize the USB pen drive as a Disk but you can use "Defragment folders..." and select the mounted drive letter as a folder. I haven't tried putting in into the menu yet but it should be doable. It works better that the built-in defragger that comes with the OS.
Don't ever defrag a flash or solid state drive. Not only will it not increase performance, it will significantly shorten its life. Fragmentation is only an issue for drives that need to move parts to read different sectors (e.g. hard drives).
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