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Old March 11th 09, 03:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support
Gerry
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Default What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. SP2 with limited free disk spaces?

Bill

You will see a noticeable improvement if you can eliminate fragmentation but
this will only last for a while until you need to cleanup and defragment
again. I suspect that the preliminary disk cleanup helps as much as
defragmentation. Apart from resolving severe fragmentation defragmenting is
only one measure contributing to better system performance.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"BillW50" wrote in message
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Gerry typed on Sat, 7 Mar 2009 22:24:04 -0000:
Like Patrick I have long been an advocate of using the Microsoft Disk
Defragmenter...


I actually have been using defraggers since the 80's and with the
exception of MFM drives, I *never* have seen an improvement from
defragging. My theory is the bus speed is slower than the reading of a
fragmented IDE drive anyway. Another possibility is that I only buy slow
CPU based machines. As I don't need Lear jet power to play DVDs.

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