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Help with Drefrag
My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag
program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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Help with Drefrag
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-- Mike Hall MS-MVP Windows Shell/User "eepp" wrote in message ... My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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Ensure that you have at least 15% free space on the drive before running
defrag. Other than that you shouldn't run into any problems unless your drive is on it's way out. However short of running a diagnostic on the drive there isn't anyway to tell if that's the case. If the computer is running good though it is unlikely the drive is dying. -- Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User] "eepp" wrote in message ... My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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In order to keep your computer in tiptop condition, you must defrag on a
regular basis but I would not use windows defragger, there is Diskeeper Lite on the net, and it works great.. doesn't take hours to do either.. Rainy basis"eepp" wrote in message ... My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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"eepp" wrote: My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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Hi eepp:
Defragging in XP is trouble-free. However, if you have not backed up for a while, now would be an excellent time. Also, before you de-frag, at least run the Disk Cleanup utility: Start All Programs Accessories System Tools. This is also an excellent time to do a little manual housekeeping: select and archive-to-CD any programs or data you use very rarely or never and then delete them from the hard drive before de-fragging. De-frag can take some time, so invoke it (or schedule it), at a time when you won't need the computer for a while. It CAN be interrupted though if you need to. On a heavily fragmented drive, I always de-frag twice despite the utiltity's assurance that fragmentation is 0% after the first pass. Good luck Mark "eepp" wrote: My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. |
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Help with Drefrag
"eepp" wrote in message ... Thanks. "eepp" wrote: My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. In addition to the sound suggestions from Callmark, I find DiskClean-up can be slower than Defrag. I, as a rule, work off-line, pull the plug on net connection, disable antivirus(in partic Mcaffee) - that tends to speed things up sometimes. Rgds Antioch |
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Help with Drefrag
eepp wrote:
My computer is working good, so I am a little hesitant in running the defrag program. The analysis shows and recommends that I do. Is there anything that I should be a little leary of by running defrag? Thanks. No. Defrag can take awhile though, so it's often an advantage to defrag often. Do it weekly and it'll probably always be fast unless you have added/deleted a lot of files all at once. One thing to watch: If free disk space gets to 15% or less it can have problems doing a defrag and will issue warnings. Otherwise it's reliable; never lost so much as a bit of a nibble of a byteg. Pop |
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