Fragmentation problems.

[Arun]

Browsers with large caching and 20 day history and
cookies and offline content synchronization can fragment
your disk drive really fast. Also look at your temp
directory. Installation programs, mail programs,
printing, scanning, almost everything creates temporary
files in your temp directory leading to fragmentation.
Think I read somewhere that in NTFS, fragmentation is
unavoidable as the OS keeps relocating the files. Don't
know how far this is true, but seems to be right. If you
have multiple partitions, you will notice that the
partition from which you run the programs and which has
your profile gets fragmented most quickly.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm using XP Home and I'm finding, despite installing
all recent updates and
>Service Packs, that files are fragmenting at a very fast
rate: I'm having to
>defrag the hard drive about twice a week - fragmented
files are accounting
>for about 28% of the drive and things are getting to
this state in about 3
>days.
>
>I haven't installed any large programs (only Unreal
Tournament in the past 2
>weeks).
>
>Is there anything I can do about this problem other than
defrag the hard
>drive twice a week?
>
>Gareth.
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