Month: November 2006

Diskeeper reports high reserved system space

Diskeeper is unable to completely optimize the specified drive as there is a rather large green/white striped area known as reserved system space. This is free area however Diskeeper will not use this area for defragmentation. To utilize this “wasted” space, the hard drive space needs to be used to capacity. A script was found to create files and folder…

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Compress individual log files into individual compressed archives

There was a task to compress all the log files for a Microsoft IIS6 installation. The log files were taking up gigabytes of space, whereas a single log file may be as large as 50 to 100MB in size.  A compressed log file resulted in only 2-4MB in size. I needed a method that would compress each log file into…

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