Disk Defragmenter- Getting rid of...

[Guest mike_302]

I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

it?

[Guest Bill Sharpe]

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mike_302 wrote:

> I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

> is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

> it?

defrag.exe only takes up 25k, so there's not much point in deleting it,

even if you don't use it.

 

Bill

[Guest Tom Porterfield]

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mike_302 wrote:

> I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

> is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

> it?

 

I believe the total of all the files takes up less than 1 MB of disk

space. If you are short on disk space, freeing up that 1 MB isn't going

to help much at all. You would also need to be careful as even defrag

tools made by other companies leverage the defrag API's built into

Windows. You wouldn't want to take the risk of removing the built in

Windows defrag tool and break your other defrag tool because the files

you removed contained some of the API's used by the other tools. Most

of the files used by the built in defrag tool are in the

%windir%\system32 folder and are protected by system file protection.

There is not way built into the OS to remove this tool.

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Tom Porterfield

[Guest JS]

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For a Defrag tool to receive Microsoft's blessing I believe it must use one

of the APIs (Microsoft MoveFile API) that the built in defrag tool uses as

part of the file defragmentation process. If you accidentally remove this

API or others while trying to gain some extra disk space as previously

mentioned you could break the new defrag tool you installed.

 

JS

 

"mike_302" <mike302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:05228D5C-D5DF-402D-A69E-2C0E3D4CC5F4@microsoft.com...

>I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and

>I

> am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows.

> It

> is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid

> of

> it?

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

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On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 15:18:15 -0400, Tom Porterfield

<tpporter@mvps.org> wrote:

> mike_302 wrote:

> > I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> > am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

> > is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> > want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

> > it?

>

> I believe the total of all the files takes up less than 1 MB of disk

> space. If you are short on disk space, freeing up that 1 MB isn't going

> to help much at all.

 

 

Looking at it another way, at today's hard drive prices, 1MB is less

than 1/10 of a US penny's worth of disk space. It's a *tiny* amount,

as you say.

 

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[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

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mike_302 <mike302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

>am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows.

 

Why would you want to do that?

[Guest thunderstruck_302@hotmail.com]

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I thought it might have been taking up sometihng like.... 50MB. But I guess

I'm wrong. I'll leave it.

 

"Uncle Grumpy" wrote:

> mike_302 <mike302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

> >I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> >am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows.

>

> Why would you want to do that?

>

[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

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thunderstruck_302@hotmail.com

<thunderstruck302hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I thought it might have been taking up sometihng like.... 50MB. But I guess

>I'm wrong. I'll leave it.

 

50mb?? THAT MUCH SPACE????

 

This and your other post I replied to indicate that you shouldn't have

public access to any forums: you're a complete moron.

[Guest Ken Blake, MVP]

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On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 16:32:02 -0700, thunderstruck_302@hotmail.com

<thunderstruck302hotmailcom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I thought it might have been taking up sometihng like.... 50MB.

 

 

 

Even it were 50MB, that's still a *tiny* amount of space--under five

US cents worth.

 

> But I guess

> I'm wrong. I'll leave it.

>

> "Uncle Grumpy" wrote:

>

> > mike_302 <mike302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> >

> > >I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> > >am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows.

> >

> > Why would you want to do that?

> >

 

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[Guest Plato]

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=?Utf-8?B?bWlrZV8zMDI=?= wrote:

>

> I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

> is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

> it?

 

There is no reason to remove the disk defragmenter that comes with

Windows. No reason at all.

 

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[Guest thunderstruck_302@hotmail.com]

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You know WHAT!? I've had enough of UNCLE GRUMPY. Go and get a life. Stop

telling people that are asking for technical help that they are MORONS, and

get psychiatric help. That's the 3rd time you've reffered to me as a mroon

because I asked aquestion on a TECH support forum. Ef you

 

"Plato" wrote:

> =?Utf-8?B?bWlrZV8zMDI=?= wrote:

> >

> > I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and I

> > am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows. It

> > is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> > want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid of

> > it?

>

> There is no reason to remove the disk defragmenter that comes with

> Windows. No reason at all.

>

> --

> http://www.bootdisk.com/

>

>

[Guest Lil' Dave]

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"mike_302" <mike302@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:05228D5C-D5DF-402D-A69E-2C0E3D4CC5F4@microsoft.com...

>I have changed my Disk Defragmenter utility to a much mor epowerful one and

>I

> am wondering now if I should get rid of the one that comes with windows.

> It

> is probably taking up otherwise usable space on my hard drive and I don't

> want that. How much is Disk Defragmenter taking up, and how can I get rid

> of

> it?

 

Forgot how and when, but I learned the retail version of Diskeeper that I

use is somehow tied to something windows defrag calls as well. Since I

don't know the mechanics behind it, I've left it alone.

Dave