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Originally Posted by theducks
BTW  Get and run Pagefile defrag from Sysinternals (My standard boot runs it every time on XP). This also defrags the registrey files
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I think this is grasping at straws. defragging the registry in windows 7 might shave 2 milliseconds off of boot time. even microsoft say don't bother & don't waste your money on registry cleaners. the registry is loaded once, at boot & held in ram unless you are desperately short of that, so registry access during normal use shoudl be immediate, no matter how fragged the file copy is.
a page file in need of defrag could maybe slow a machine by a fraction of a second but not freeze it for a long time.
and either of those would impact all programs not solely calibre
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failing hard drive could cause a lengthy freeze, but we have multiple posters with the same issues, it is unlikely they all have failing drives ?
but this does prompt another thought, what if the affected users were to install & test launch calibre portable - would that freeze in the same manner as the regular install, or not ?