How can I know which files fragmented, I can safely remove?

original title: fragmentation of files

How can I know which files fragmented, I can safely remove? Some of my fragmented files are system files.

Fragmented files are not bad! At worst, need another millisecond or two for the system read this file.  If the file is rarely or never accessed, so there no performance impact at all.  When you delete files from your machine, fragmentation does not fall within the decision-making process. If you don't remove them if they are not fragmented, then you should not remove them, period.  If you mind really that a file is fragmented after you run a standard defragmentation, there are programs out there as freeware "Contig" that defragment almost anything.

Contig: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428>

HTH,
JW

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