Jake
December 6th 03, 03:50 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Hi,
>The below message is from one of our "tech" guys and
I/we
>are wondering if this information is correct or if this
>guy is just impressed with himself. Any feed back would
>be helpful and any tech sources would backup our beliefs
>that he is wrong. This is Windows XP Pro.
>Thanks for your time and help.
>Clem
>
>
>"In recent day's I have been asked numerous times how to
>defrag and scandisk PC's with Windows XP and not having
>administrative rights. Well I have wonderful new for
>those of you with this operating system, you don't have
>to. Below you can read and exert from Microsoft
>regarding defragging and Windows XP machines.
>
>
>
>Defrag Regularly
>
>
>
>DOS and non-NT versions of Windows do very little to
keep
>their file systems optimized. Huge gaps of free space
>open up in various areas of the hard drive as programs
>and files are installed and removed; later, other files
>are written starting at the first block of free space,
>filling the gaps in order by sector and ending up
>scattered in pieces all over the drive. When an
operating
>system has to access several different areas of a hard
>disk just to load a single file or program, performance
>is severely degraded.
>
>
>
>NT kernel operating systems, like Windows XP, take
>measures when used with the NTFS file system to keep
hard
>disks contiguous--but fragmentation still does occur.
>Therefore, you should defrag your XP hard disk(s) on a
>regular basis depending on how much file juggling you do
>on your PC.
>
>
>
>If you install and remove programs frequently, you
should
>defrag the drive as often as once per week. If, however,
>you tend to use the same applications for long periods
of
>time and you don't move files around, you can get away
>with defragging your drives.
>
>
>
>Since we don't install and uninstalled software of these
>machine on a regular basis and we tend to use the same
>software on a daily basis, we fall into the portion that
>can get away with defragging our systems. I hope this
>gives you' all a little more insight on your computers,
>if you should have any question please feel free to
>contact me."
>
>
>.
>As a computer programmer and technician, defragging
should be done at least once per week irregardless of use
or abuse. File fragments are scattered all over the
harddrive while creating and updating files. A far
better program is Norton's optimizing feature, it
utilizes "gaps" and unused sectors creating a "speed disk"
>
>Hi,
>The below message is from one of our "tech" guys and
I/we
>are wondering if this information is correct or if this
>guy is just impressed with himself. Any feed back would
>be helpful and any tech sources would backup our beliefs
>that he is wrong. This is Windows XP Pro.
>Thanks for your time and help.
>Clem
>
>
>"In recent day's I have been asked numerous times how to
>defrag and scandisk PC's with Windows XP and not having
>administrative rights. Well I have wonderful new for
>those of you with this operating system, you don't have
>to. Below you can read and exert from Microsoft
>regarding defragging and Windows XP machines.
>
>
>
>Defrag Regularly
>
>
>
>DOS and non-NT versions of Windows do very little to
keep
>their file systems optimized. Huge gaps of free space
>open up in various areas of the hard drive as programs
>and files are installed and removed; later, other files
>are written starting at the first block of free space,
>filling the gaps in order by sector and ending up
>scattered in pieces all over the drive. When an
operating
>system has to access several different areas of a hard
>disk just to load a single file or program, performance
>is severely degraded.
>
>
>
>NT kernel operating systems, like Windows XP, take
>measures when used with the NTFS file system to keep
hard
>disks contiguous--but fragmentation still does occur.
>Therefore, you should defrag your XP hard disk(s) on a
>regular basis depending on how much file juggling you do
>on your PC.
>
>
>
>If you install and remove programs frequently, you
should
>defrag the drive as often as once per week. If, however,
>you tend to use the same applications for long periods
of
>time and you don't move files around, you can get away
>with defragging your drives.
>
>
>
>Since we don't install and uninstalled software of these
>machine on a regular basis and we tend to use the same
>software on a daily basis, we fall into the portion that
>can get away with defragging our systems. I hope this
>gives you' all a little more insight on your computers,
>if you should have any question please feel free to
>contact me."
>
>
>.
>As a computer programmer and technician, defragging
should be done at least once per week irregardless of use
or abuse. File fragments are scattered all over the
harddrive while creating and updating files. A far
better program is Norton's optimizing feature, it
utilizes "gaps" and unused sectors creating a "speed disk"