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**Ken Springer[_2_]** · February 24th 15, 11:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

On 2/24/15 3:31 PM, Dave Doe wrote:
In article ,
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:48:16 -0500, "Bill Cunningham"
wrote:

I am using defraggler by Piriform. I don't know who all is familiar with
that. But this is some things I have noticed. There is a "quick"
defragmentation and the "regular" defragmentation. The defrags go much
quicker with ntfs than with fat32.

I run the "quick defrag" first and there may be some files that need
individually defragged. Then I use the regular defrag and all seems to go
pretty well. Now what am I doing when I am quick defragging and then just
running the defragmenter? What's the difference?

Bill

I always liked the defrag on Win98 better than the one on Win2000 and
XP. That older one always showed all the blocks being moved, and
compacted them all together. The one on 2K and XP always leaves gaps.
I find that really annoying. I've often ran defrag 4 or 5 times in a
row, trying to get rid of the gaps, and it never happens.

I have defraggler by Piriform on my laptop woth XP. It works a little
better than the default one, but still leaves gaps.....

A good defragmenter *should* leave gaps. Think about it.

I've always wondered if the MS defragmenters starting with XP left any
space. I've read a couple comments that it did, but nothing definitive.

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Ken
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