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FSX and Defragging

rhumbaflappy

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Hi all.

Both FSX and SBuilderX will leave your files in a moderately fragmented state on your harddrive. This can also happen to other file-intensive FSX applications, and can happen to GIS sources as well.

Contig is a program that defrags files on a file by file basis... and allows whole folders to be defragged as contigous files.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/contig.mspx

Here's a batch file to defrag FSX:

Code: 
contig.exe -v -s "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\*.*"
pause

Here's another batch file to defrag SBuilderX:

Code: 
contig.exe -v -s "C:\Program Files\SBuilderX\*.*"
pause

This will file-defrag the entire C: drive:

Code: 
contig.exe -v -s C:\*.*
pause

I've been using it, and it helps. :)

The first time used it will be slow... but it will be quite quick on subsequent defrags if you use it often ( I use it once a week, or after an install of a large program ).

Dick
 
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