[access-uk] Re: Defragmentation

How do I get off this this list?
I never sigend up to it and I am being plauged by dozens of messages everyday.
Thanks,
Douglas Harrison <harrisondf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Earlier this week Diskeeper was mentioned on this list and I 
decided to have a look at the lite version. 
I tried it first on my old Win 98Se machine and although both 
partitions were in reasonably good health I let it defrag and it did 
so very quickly. 
I then turned to my Toshiba laptop (XP Pro) and got the following 
report on the c partition - 
Total fragmented files = 753
Total excess fragments = 2,685
Average fragments per file = 1.10
Which was somewhat alarming.

I now have to decide whether to let the Windows Defrag program 
do the job or to leave it to Diskeeper. Any suggestions? 
I always found with Win 98 and its own defragmenter that to get 
the partition containing the OS to defrag properly I needed to quit 
as many things as possible ? firewall, AV program and screen 
reader, but with Diskeeper I left everything running and it seme to 
work OK.

Should anything need to be closed before attempting 
defragmentation of an XP system? 

Thanks in advance for any advice,

Douglas

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Douglas Harrison





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