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I look over the specs for the program you mentioned. It looks similar to the
built in Maintenance Wizard, your program has the restart feature that could be useful, but even the program doesn't require it, if everything else works. Unless you are doing heavy graphic use, using/creating/deleting large image/media files daily. Or using the PC for testing purposes by installing/removing programs constantly, there should not be a need to defrag daily. If the program has a command line to shut off pc after running program. You might consider having the program run Friday night, when you leave the office, so Monday morning your pc will be defragged for the coming week. -- Add MS to your News Reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com Rich/rerat (RRR News) message rule Previous Text Snipped to Save Bandwidth When Appropriate "If_Its_Junk" If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... "RRR_News" wrote in message ... If_Its_Junk, For just your Win98SE PC, you should be using a program called "Maintenance Wizard" that will defrag/scandisk and disk cleanup your PC on a regular schedule. On the W98SE pc START Programs Accessories System Tools Maintentence Wizard Choose settings I personally use the default settings, but on the scandisk tab, check the box to fix errors. -- Add MS to your News Reader: news://msnews.microsoft.com Rich/rerat (RRR News) message rule Previous Text Snipped to Save Bandwidth When Appropriate In , If_Its_Junk If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com typed: I do a defrag daily on my Win98SE machine. I use ScanDefrag from Blueorbsoft because it restarts the system before it runs all of its programs - is there an advantage to changing to using the Maintenance Wizard? |
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It is a sound buy. Hope you are satisfied with it. (Now if my commission
check makes it here before the first.... ) -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Thank you, Colin. FWIW, I purchased two copies of Diskeeper 9 today. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Executive Software recommends a defrag threshold of 2% to be on the safe side. Diskeeper 9 introduced a new analysis screen which shows not just the fragmentation map, but also an impact map. It shows the degree to which the fragmentation present will degrade performance. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... I concur with Colin, and while I personally prefer Raxco's "Perfect Disk" to Executive Software's "Diskeeper", for very technical reasons which MVP Alex Nichol, et.al., are better able to explain than me, both defragmenters are very fine tools. One should be mindful that both offer the option to "Analyze" the disk prior to defragging it. One can then choose to defrag, according to one's personal preference at that time. FWIW & IIRC, MVP Jim Eshelman has previously commented that in his experiments under Win 9X, esp. Win 98, he observed some performance degradation beginning when fragmentation reached 4-6%. I suspect XP will be quite different, ... under NTFS, at least. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Opinions are all over the place. The only agreement is that a fragmented hard drive is a Bad Thing. Personally, I use Diskeeper 9 Home edition ($20) and take advantage of the Set and Forget feature. Diskeeper then goes into action when fragmentation reaches 2% or so. It works in the background and I have never detected a performance hit while it is running. There is a free trial option. Other people like Perfect Disk. Whatever, but I do recommend a defragger that doesn't have to run on a set schedule but only runs when truly needed. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "If_Its_Junk" If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... I do a defrag daily on my Win98SE machine. Should I be doing the same on my new WinXP machine, and if not why not? |
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You should run a boot defrag as soon as you get diskeeper 9 installed.
Here's how: Open the program. Click 'Change Your Settings' Click 'Set a boot-time defragmentation' Select the volume (drive) you want to run a boot time defrag on. Select 'On Next Manual Reboot' Check the following selection boxes: 'Put all folders together on the volume' 'Defragment the paging file' 'Defragment the Master File Table (MFT)' You can also select the option 'Run the system "CHKDSK" utility before defragmentation" if you have a lot of time on your hands. If you select it, it will take approxamately 3 hours to run. All depending on the size of the volume you are defragging. Now, click ok, and the program will give you a few notifications that you set the boot defrag, and will also tell you to back up files. This isn't absolutely necessary. I didn't and I have no problems, but I would recommend backing up important documts, just in case. Now, Reboot your coputer (I know you know how to do that!) It will look like it is starting normally, then you will get a different screen right before it would normally go into windows. This will run the Checkdisk and defragger. After this completes, is will automatically restart, and look like it is running again, but it is checking to make sure your volume is 'good to go'. Let is run, it will only take 5 minutes. Then it will proceed to restart again, and Poof! Faster performance. "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Thank you, Colin. FWIW, I purchased two copies of Diskeeper 9 today. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Executive Software recommends a defrag threshold of 2% to be on the safe side. Diskeeper 9 introduced a new analysis screen which shows not just the fragmentation map, but also an impact map. It shows the degree to which the fragmentation present will degrade performance. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... I concur with Colin, and while I personally prefer Raxco's "Perfect Disk" to Executive Software's "Diskeeper", for very technical reasons which MVP Alex Nichol, et.al., are better able to explain than me, both defragmenters are very fine tools. One should be mindful that both offer the option to "Analyze" the disk prior to defragging it. One can then choose to defrag, according to one's personal preference at that time. FWIW & IIRC, MVP Jim Eshelman has previously commented that in his experiments under Win 9X, esp. Win 98, he observed some performance degradation beginning when fragmentation reached 4-6%. I suspect XP will be quite different, ... under NTFS, at least. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Opinions are all over the place. The only agreement is that a fragmented hard drive is a Bad Thing. Personally, I use Diskeeper 9 Home edition ($20) and take advantage of the Set and Forget feature. Diskeeper then goes into action when fragmentation reaches 2% or so. It works in the background and I have never detected a performance hit while it is running. There is a free trial option. Other people like Perfect Disk. Whatever, but I do recommend a defragger that doesn't have to run on a set schedule but only runs when truly needed. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "If_Its_Junk" If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... I do a defrag daily on my Win98SE machine. Should I be doing the same on my new WinXP machine, and if not why not? |
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Only if he buys the Pro version. It is not available in the Home version.
-- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Saavedro" wrote in message ... You should run a boot defrag as soon as you get diskeeper 9 installed. Here's how: Open the program. Click 'Change Your Settings' Click 'Set a boot-time defragmentation' Select the volume (drive) you want to run a boot time defrag on. Select 'On Next Manual Reboot' Check the following selection boxes: 'Put all folders together on the volume' 'Defragment the paging file' 'Defragment the Master File Table (MFT)' You can also select the option 'Run the system "CHKDSK" utility before defragmentation" if you have a lot of time on your hands. If you select it, it will take approxamately 3 hours to run. All depending on the size of the volume you are defragging. Now, click ok, and the program will give you a few notifications that you set the boot defrag, and will also tell you to back up files. This isn't absolutely necessary. I didn't and I have no problems, but I would recommend backing up important documts, just in case. Now, Reboot your coputer (I know you know how to do that!) It will look like it is starting normally, then you will get a different screen right before it would normally go into windows. This will run the Checkdisk and defragger. After this completes, is will automatically restart, and look like it is running again, but it is checking to make sure your volume is 'good to go'. Let is run, it will only take 5 minutes. Then it will proceed to restart again, and Poof! Faster performance. "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Thank you, Colin. FWIW, I purchased two copies of Diskeeper 9 today. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Executive Software recommends a defrag threshold of 2% to be on the safe side. Diskeeper 9 introduced a new analysis screen which shows not just the fragmentation map, but also an impact map. It shows the degree to which the fragmentation present will degrade performance. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... I concur with Colin, and while I personally prefer Raxco's "Perfect Disk" to Executive Software's "Diskeeper", for very technical reasons which MVP Alex Nichol, et.al., are better able to explain than me, both defragmenters are very fine tools. One should be mindful that both offer the option to "Analyze" the disk prior to defragging it. One can then choose to defrag, according to one's personal preference at that time. FWIW & IIRC, MVP Jim Eshelman has previously commented that in his experiments under Win 9X, esp. Win 98, he observed some performance degradation beginning when fragmentation reached 4-6%. I suspect XP will be quite different, ... under NTFS, at least. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Opinions are all over the place. The only agreement is that a fragmented hard drive is a Bad Thing. Personally, I use Diskeeper 9 Home edition ($20) and take advantage of the Set and Forget feature. Diskeeper then goes into action when fragmentation reaches 2% or so. It works in the background and I have never detected a performance hit while it is running. There is a free trial option. Other people like Perfect Disk. Whatever, but I do recommend a defragger that doesn't have to run on a set schedule but only runs when truly needed. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "If_Its_Junk" If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... I do a defrag daily on my Win98SE machine. Should I be doing the same on my new WinXP machine, and if not why not? |
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hmmmmmmm... yes you are right. So, definately invest in the pro version...
it's only a few bucks more. "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Only if he buys the Pro version. It is not available in the Home version. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Saavedro" wrote in message ... You should run a boot defrag as soon as you get diskeeper 9 installed. Here's how: Open the program. Click 'Change Your Settings' Click 'Set a boot-time defragmentation' Select the volume (drive) you want to run a boot time defrag on. Select 'On Next Manual Reboot' Check the following selection boxes: 'Put all folders together on the volume' 'Defragment the paging file' 'Defragment the Master File Table (MFT)' You can also select the option 'Run the system "CHKDSK" utility before defragmentation" if you have a lot of time on your hands. If you select it, it will take approxamately 3 hours to run. All depending on the size of the volume you are defragging. Now, click ok, and the program will give you a few notifications that you set the boot defrag, and will also tell you to back up files. This isn't absolutely necessary. I didn't and I have no problems, but I would recommend backing up important documts, just in case. Now, Reboot your coputer (I know you know how to do that!) It will look like it is starting normally, then you will get a different screen right before it would normally go into windows. This will run the Checkdisk and defragger. After this completes, is will automatically restart, and look like it is running again, but it is checking to make sure your volume is 'good to go'. Let is run, it will only take 5 minutes. Then it will proceed to restart again, and Poof! Faster performance. "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... Thank you, Colin. FWIW, I purchased two copies of Diskeeper 9 today. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Executive Software recommends a defrag threshold of 2% to be on the safe side. Diskeeper 9 introduced a new analysis screen which shows not just the fragmentation map, but also an impact map. It shows the degree to which the fragmentation present will degrade performance. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "Jack E Martinelli" wrote in message ... I concur with Colin, and while I personally prefer Raxco's "Perfect Disk" to Executive Software's "Diskeeper", for very technical reasons which MVP Alex Nichol, et.al., are better able to explain than me, both defragmenters are very fine tools. One should be mindful that both offer the option to "Analyze" the disk prior to defragging it. One can then choose to defrag, according to one's personal preference at that time. FWIW & IIRC, MVP Jim Eshelman has previously commented that in his experiments under Win 9X, esp. Win 98, he observed some performance degradation beginning when fragmentation reached 4-6%. I suspect XP will be quite different, ... under NTFS, at least. -- Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for Shell/User / DTS Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...t/default.aspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message ... Opinions are all over the place. The only agreement is that a fragmented hard drive is a Bad Thing. Personally, I use Diskeeper 9 Home edition ($20) and take advantage of the Set and Forget feature. Diskeeper then goes into action when fragmentation reaches 2% or so. It works in the background and I have never detected a performance hit while it is running. There is a free trial option. Other people like Perfect Disk. Whatever, but I do recommend a defragger that doesn't have to run on a set schedule but only runs when truly needed. -- Colin Barnhorst [MVP Windows - Virtual Machine] (Reply to the group only unless otherwise requested) "If_Its_Junk" If_Its_Junk at hotmail dot com wrote in message ... I do a defrag daily on my Win98SE machine. Should I be doing the same on my new WinXP machine, and if not why not? |
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