Guest morpheus Posted April 22, 2003 Report Posted April 22, 2003 Can anyone recommend a good DEFRAG program? :arrow: Morpheus
Guest Monolithix [MVP] Posted April 22, 2003 Report Posted April 22, 2003 Start > Programs > Accessories > System tools > Defrag... ?
Guest EMGenius Posted April 22, 2003 Report Posted April 22, 2003 the windows one is suposed to be pants. Apparrently the one on norton system works is really good
Guest bdmoore Posted April 22, 2003 Report Posted April 22, 2003 Yeah I've got Norton Utils 2002 - the defrag part is Speed Disk. It takes an age to run and I've only got a 30GB HDD, but the results are pretty impressive! ;)
Guest ajb3000 Posted April 22, 2003 Report Posted April 22, 2003 How about a defrag program for the SPV? lol
Guest madu Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 Used O&O - not bad. Can also run as a service, but you wouldn't want that. So make sure if you are on XP/2000 that you go into Services and change O&O service from Automatic to Manual. Hmmm, I don't know how trustworthy Norton is - any more comments re that?? PS: Go to www.tucows.com and have a look in System Utils > Defrag (or something like that)
Guest siu99spj Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 Which OS you using :? Only ask as Norton is good on all 9X variants, biut if you're 2K- or XP-ing then just make your disk NTFS. Works faster and 'auto-defrags'. Besides, XP will screw up any defragging anyway as it reorders your HDD during idle time depending on what you load.
Guest bdmoore Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 siu99spj -> I'm running XP Pro (with NTFS), and Norton Utils reports that fragmentation gets worse over time (hence me having to run Speed Disk occasionally!) so XP is obviously not doing a very good of 'auto-defragging'. :shock: Is there anyway of stopping XP re-ordering the HDD??
Guest Richie M Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 siu99spj -> I'm running XP Pro (with NTFS), and Norton Utils reports that fragmentation gets worse over time (hence me having to run Speed Disk occasionally!) so XP is obviously not doing a very good of 'auto-defragging'. :shock: Is there anyway of stopping XP re-ordering the HDD?? I know Norton reports that, but it's not quite right; what it actually is, Norton and XP use different algorithms for reordering files for quicker access - so if you Defrag with XP and then straight away Defrag with Norton, Norton will say that the disk is not optimised and you should Defrag :?
Guest bdmoore Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 So the best thing is to ignore what Norton says then??! ;) Can you configure how XP defrags or is it all automatic?
Guest ClintEastman Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 Used O&O - not bad. Can also run as a service, but you wouldn't want that. So make sure if you are on XP/2000 that you go into Services and change O&O service from Automatic to Manual. Hmmm, I don't know how trustworthy Norton is - any more comments re that?? PS: Go to www.tucows.com and have a look in System Utils > Defrag (or something like that) Norton has never been good for me!!! (don't trust it after it fried 15Gigs of media). In all my years i have not found anything as good as O&O (and i don't run the service).
Guest siu99spj Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 So the best thing is to ignore what Norton says then??! :) Can you configure how XP defrags or is it all automatic? I usually leave it to its own devices. As I leave my PC on most of the time, and it spend large globs of that time picking fluff from its navel ;) it quite often does its own thing whilst I'm at work. I'm pretty certain the registry will have the settings somewhere within it, but I ain't trawling through the whole lot! I'll have a gander tonight to see if there's anything interesting. As to the XP/NU debacle, NU2003 doesn't seem to complain over XP's optimistation, it seems to acknowledge that XP deliberately leaves gaps between files that are regularly changed. NU2002 might not be as smart though. Personally, I don't use Nortons defrag anymore at all. In DOS it was perfect, in Windows 9X it was very tetchy and 2k/XP never needed it. Some of the other tools are nice though (WipeInfo, Ghost, Firewall and Antivirus) Must say I'm surprised over the number of people who've had problems with Norton, though I will accept that 2001 and 2002 were serious bodges for Windows 9X. As I've been a 2K and XP Pro man :shock: , can't really comment. :shock: :mrgreen: God Damn thats a big reply! :mrgreen: :shock:
Guest Richie M Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 :oops: yeah i was refering to Norton 2002; got 2003 now but havent tried the Defrag/Speed Disk yet. [edit] and running XP Pro
Guest bdmoore Posted April 23, 2003 Report Posted April 23, 2003 As to the XP/NU debacle, NU2003 doesn't seem to complain over XP's optimistation, it seems to acknowledge that XP deliberately leaves gaps between files that are regularly changed. Looks like I might have to upgrade to NU2003 then!! Thanks for the info ;)
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