[access-uk] Re: Diskeeper
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:52:39 +0100
Hi Chris,
Yes, it does. The idea of defragging the swap file is to speed up boot time
and also, it makes programs load faster, because it doesn't have to go grab
fragmented parts of the swap file, so any file is worth defragging in my
view.
All the best
Steve
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Hallsworth
Sent: 10 August 2007 07:18
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Diskeeper
Carol, I don't know if it's just my machine, but I've not noticed any
degradable performance if the swap file wasn't defragmented. I have 512 MB
of RAM, and my computer runs pretty fast to how it was when I had 256 MB of
RAM, which was the original amount that came with my computer. As I say this
could be my machine, but I don't think swap file fragmentation has anything
to do with general performance, but who knows.
Chris Hallsworth
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 7:13 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Diskeeper
Douglas and all,
Have you just gone for the Home version.
I got rather confused as to which is best and would be interested in
comments from folk as to which they're using and whether I need to think of
purchasing one of the other versions for ultimate satisfaction. For
example, Steve said something about the swap file and suggested that only
one version could actually defrag this file. I'd be interested in any
discussion as to the importance of being able to do this . . ..
I'm about to start using the trial (once I've plugged in my new hard
external drive, which I'm getting later today . . . so I'm looking for more
comments on these things, please folks.
Also, I've not been able to find anything about prices for the various
versions. This information would also be helpful.
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrison1d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:26 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Diskeeper
> Just a postscript to the two recent threads on this subject.
>
> Having downloaded the 30 day trial version I installed it this morning on
> my
> Toshiba laptop and chose the option not to have it run automatically -
> preferring to try defragmenting a partition first. From the context menu
> of
> the c: partition I first ran an analysis which told me that there was
> heavy
> fragmentation and that performance would be seriously affected. The
> latter
> agreed with my experience, but on the other hand the Windows XP
> defragmenter has, for as long as I can remember, reported that the drive
> did not need defragmentation.
> I next set Diskeeper to do a manual defrag - it took 8 hours - which
> surprised me as the c: partition is 5 gb and holds only the OS, Office, IE
> etc. plus Documents and settings. It must have been badly fragmented
> indeed!
>
> Many thanks to steve for bringing Diskeeper to our attention. The current
> version seems to be a great improvement on one I tried 2 or 3 years ago.
>
> Douglas
> .
>
> --
>
> Douglas Harrison
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