[access-uk] Defragmentation
- From: "Douglas Harrison" <harrisondf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 16:06:21 +0100
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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