How often do you defrag ?
22-06-2003, 18:49
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These Threads are getting OT, I Dont even know whats going on :S
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22-06-2003, 18:59
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Originally posted by bo-peep
you'll have to send instructions to me cos i don't know and sumbody told me in god knows wot thread on how to save them to a folder.i've never cleared all my messages out in NTHW and i've been there ages ( inbox i have)
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I've PMed you. 
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22-06-2003, 19:04
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22-06-2003, 19:24
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Originally posted by Darren Wilson
Once a year on the NTFS based boxes as that is all they need, & on the rare occasion that a FAT32 box is left running, once every 3 months. The speed and size of todays hard disks negates any performance increase that you may see through a defrag especially on NTFS.
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If you use Diskkeeper to defrag an NTFS machine, never, never, never, ever, ever, ever use the option that defrags at the DOS prompt. What you will find is that it is literally impossible to stop it(and I mean it; no use asking tech support, they can't stop it either) . And as it runs for quite a few hours, you might as well clear your desk and go home.
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22-06-2003, 19:28
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If your computer is being particularly irritating, what you need to do is to frag it. :-)
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22-06-2003, 19:31
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Quote:
Originally posted by Theodoric
If your computer is being particularly irritating, what you need to do is to frag it. :-)
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That sounds fun.
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23-06-2003, 09:33
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I never have to defrag my main OS - the file system in use on that never needs defragging (it keeps itself tidy automatically).
The Windows system does get defragged though - but probably not as regularly as it should...
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23-06-2003, 09:52
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I used to defrag a lot more often with 95/98/ME - pages and pages of small blocks gently shuffling themselves about - somehow soothing  Now I've got this 2000 all you get is one multicoloured bar  No entertainment value in that at all. Friday afternoons just aren't the same!
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23-06-2003, 12:21
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Anyone using 98SE, like me, could usefully set their swap file manually (rather than letting windows do it) to about twice to three times their RAM size (both min and max settings).
That way the swap files isn't expanding and contracting and fragmenting your file system.
Works for me .. I've not seen more than 6% fragmentation in 6 months (although I do defrag once a week if I remember).
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23-06-2003, 16:25
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Hi all
i run Defrag after i have had a good clearout of all the useless crap that collects on the HDD s about once a month as a rule, or when the drives are 10% fragmented , file system is NTFS
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