Re: Defrag Bootup Files

[XPUSER]

Wow !
I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1

I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition.

The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to desktop in
about 20 seconds (that's including Log In less my typing time).

What a significant improvement !!!!

Thanks !!!

[Shadow]

On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:39:09 -0800, XPUSER > wrote:

>Wow !
>I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1
>
>I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition.
>
>The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to desktop in
>about 20 seconds (that's including Log In less my typing time).
>
>What a significant improvement !!!!
>
>Thanks !!!

I prefer the "System Disk Weekly"
It takes longer than the one you used, but does a better job.
The monthly script is a bit of a pain, takes too long to complete.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
[]'s
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[Big Al[_5_]]

On 12/30/2016 03:08 PM, Shadow wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:39:09 -0800, XPUSER > wrote:
>
>> Wow !
>> I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1
>>
>> I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition.
>>
>> The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to desktop in
>> about 20 seconds (that's including Log In less my typing time).
>>
>> What a significant improvement !!!!
>>
>> Thanks !!!
>
> I prefer the "System Disk Weekly"
> It takes longer than the one you used, but does a better job.
> The monthly script is a bit of a pain, takes too long to complete.
> Anyway, thanks for the feedback.
> []'s
>
When I have a dinner for 10 to cook for, I usually run the monthly, but
that's once a year. :-) Now that I have an SSD I haven't seen that
program in a long time. Kinda liked watching it clean the little dots
as it progressed. (I know... get a life!). :-)

[Micky]

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:39:09
-0800, XPUSER > wrote:

>Wow !
>I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1
>
>I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition.
>
>The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to desktop in
>about 20 seconds (that's including Log In less my typing time).
>
>What a significant improvement !!!!

What you really mean is, "All you cynics who said my plan wouldn't help,
Fooey on you. You're not as smart as you think" That includes me iirc.
>
>Thanks !!!

[Paul[_32_]]

micky wrote:
> In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Fri, 30 Dec 2016 11:39:09
> -0800, XPUSER > wrote:
>
>> Wow !
>> I downloaded MyDefrag v4.3.1
>>
>> I ran "System Disk Daily" on C: of my Win XP Pro partition.
>>
>> The PC boots with NO disk head noise and completes boot to desktop in
>> about 20 seconds (that's including Log In less my typing time).
>>
>> What a significant improvement !!!!
>
> What you really mean is, "All you cynics who said my plan wouldn't help,
> Fooey on you. You're not as smart as you think" That includes me iirc.

I'd want to understand why it did make a difference.

To start with, you'd run your defragmenter tool
in analysis mode, and see the "percentage fragmentation"
claimed in the analysis.

But just as important, you'd probably also want to
check the disk health (SMART), because it's not
a good idea to run any stressful processes on
a sick hard drive. Examples of things where you
should check health, are before using CHKDSK
or before using a defragmenter.

The defragmenter may offer an improvement in performance,
in the same way that running a copy of Spinrite might, by
re-writing flaky sectors and reducing or removing read
timeouts on bad sectors.

As for how the OS treats the disk, WinXP does actually work
behind the scenes, but I think it only works on .pf files.
It actually does some optimization on its own. I know this,
because the process failed one day, and was writing to the same
sector over and over again. And making a noise come from the
hard drive. That's how I discovered WinXP was being sneaky.

Later OSes can have regularly scheduled defragmentation. Or
in the case of an SSD on such systems, instead of a defrag,
the OS can run a re-TRIM on the SSD, to inform the SSD what
clusters aren't in usage.

There's lots you can learn from these little events,
if you plan ahead.

Another metric, would be how long it took MyDefrag to
finish the job.

Paul