Prefer if "Zone 3 files used when booting" would exclude spacehogs

[andublin]

In the standard scripts, "Zone 3: files used when booting" can pull in very large files, spacehogs, which would be better left to the end of the disk.
Please exclude these as standard

It seems to me another good reason to transfer the spacehogs definition to a macro, reusable in different zones and different scripts.
Many thanks

[jeroen]

Thanks for sharing your idea, I appreciate it. Sorry, but in my opinion no files should be excluded from the boot zone. Feel free to do so yourself, in the script with a fileboolean.

[poutnik]

Thanks for sharing your idea, I appreciate it. Sorry, but in my opinion no files should be excluded from the boot zone. Feel free to do so yourself, in the script with a fileboolean.

Even those not accessed last month ?

[jeroen]

Even those not accessed last month ?

MyDefrag uses the Windows "layout.ini" file, which is a record of all files accessed while booting. The list is only updated in certain circumstances, for more information see the MyDefrag ImportListFromBootOptimize manual page. So, if for example you have not booted in a month then yes, the file may list files that have not been accessed in a month. This does not mean the list is incorrect, and does not mean the files should not be placed in the boot zone.

[poutnik]

MyDefrag uses the Windows "layout.ini" file, which is a record of all files accessed while booting. The list is only updated in certain circumstances, for more information see the MyDefrag ImportListFromBootOptimize manual page. So, if for example you have not booted in a month then yes, the file may list files that have not been accessed in a month. This does not mean the list is incorrect, and does not mean the files should not be placed in the boot zone.

I had of course in mind regular booting.
I have noticed in past, that on Vista, at some circumstances,
there are listed files with last access several months ago.
It is related to VirtualStore feature, when file request is redirected
from Pragram files folders to User VirtualStore folder.

[Kasuha]

I have noticed in my Layout.ini:

- all files of a game I'm playing (120 MB biggest file, 1 GB total)
- some video files I was working on recently (one of them 4 GB in size!)
- a non-system program I haven't run for at least three months

Personally I'm behind excluding at least very big files from the boot zone. Watching a movie right after booting up your PC should not make your boot zone grow by a gigabyte and roll all other zones up to spacehogs by this amount, it just introduces unnecessary file moves during optimization.

Edit: after writing this post I started MyDefrag and I noticed it just added an 8-GB disk image from VirtualPC to the boot zone too because I used VirtualPC once yesterday.