Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain Hi, Sometimes when boot up is slow I check the disk defragmenter and see that the unmovable files. How to shrink Windows partition with unmovable files in. (the primary system level unmovable files) Run a defragmenter that can move files to the start of the disk. Nov 06, 2006 When running System Tools/Disk Defragmenter I note that my Unmovable Files load had grown to maybe as much as. Windows Disk Defragmenter-Unmovable Files. Discussion in 'backup, imaging & disk mgmt' started by TheKid7, Nov 26, 2010.

Just a point of curiosity: what are the 'unmovable files' referred to by disk defragmenter, and why do they move around between defragmenting sessions? Backburner Autodesk Problems. I'm running XP / SP2 on a Dell Inspiron 9200. The disk defragmenter shows blue and red files, and then green files which are 'unmovable' and there is an especially large band of green that always appears, but in different places in the last half of the band.

Occasionally, disk defragmenter does move small slices of green files, but never the larger bands of green. Thank you for your help. Files that are in use by the operating system at the time you run the defragmenter can't be moved. Bellingham Tech Nursing Program. The paging file and the MFT (Master File Table) are such files.

Horoscope Explorer Pro 3.6 Keygen. By default, the paging file is dynamic which means it will expand when some apps need more paging space and reduce its size when the space is freed. Obviously it can only expand to some free space on the drive and since files are continuously added and deleted on the drive the first available batch of free space for the paging file is not always at the same place. When there begins to be lots of files and folders on the drive the MFT can also grow in size and become fragmented.

I believe that the other system files that are in use at the time you run the defrag can't be moved either. Those files can move with the time since sometimes, when they're not in use, the defragmenter will be able to move them. And I guess that when Windows update updates one of those files or add new system files they can also switch places. If space is not an issue you can set the paging file to a fixed 1.5GB size and use (I believe they have a 30 days fully functional evaluation version) to defrag all those files that can't normally be moved, including the paging file, when the computer starts.