Hope it helps you live a little better.WinContig is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn't create any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. (I’ll write a separate article on building my thumbdrive.)Īnyway, now in my utilities folder I have a copy of WinContig (separate 32 and 64 bit executables). WinContig was able to defragment the contents of the ISO file and thus solve the problem. Defragmenting the thumbdrive itself did nothing to help (the drive wasn’t defragmented). I downloaded the new Windows 8 preview and wanted to add it to my list of bootables on my multi-boot thumbdrive and it would not run because the files needed to be contiguous. (Perhaps there is a way to donate but I didn’t find it.)Īnother great feature of WinContig (and the main reason I downloaded it) is that it can defragment ISO files. It’s called WinContig (as in contiguous) and it’s a free download. However, for those times when you need a portable solution I have found one. Though I would still recommend Diskeeper (even if Windows 7 is much better about not fragmenting files than any previous version was). The problem with using Diskeeper, aside from the expense of buying a license for any machine where you should choose to use it, is its lack of portability.

(I haven’t inspected his bedroom closet but work with me here.) Microsoft hasn’t moved.įor a long time I was installing Diskeeper, which I still really like.

My brother has moved on to be a rōnin-chef, and as such has developed a high art when it comes to cleaning a kitchen. It’s like when you ask a kid to clean up his or her room and they stuff all their crap into the closet.

The built-in degragmentation tool in Windows (any version) rather, to put it politely, sucks giant iguana balls.

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