re: Defraging with Me tool
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 7:42 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3935 messages posted)
|I've used ME Defrag for a number of years
|and I say without shadow of a doubt it works twice as fast as 98's Defrag.
| Keith Stanier
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True.
|I Scandisk and Defrag once a week and it doesn't take long
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This will vary depending on the individual box / individual user.
The point I was trying to make is that if you schedule things well,
you never have to wait on a Windoze computer to become available again
after running disk maintenance or "security" (heh) sweeps.
|so I don't have to leave it Defraging all night.
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When I reboot my Windoze box,
it's almost always because Windoze has slowed to a crawl or has crashed.[1]
I rarely voluntarily shut down my box (then have to wait for it to load Windoze).
As such, I typically start any maintenance the last thing in the evening
and just let it churn.
So, fast or slow, it doesn't really matter to me.
[1] Compare that to Linux (which almost always fails gracefully):
http://www.google.com/search?q=kernel.panic+rare+BSoD
http://www.google.com/search?q=Linux+kill.9+Kill.process
Another note about shutting down computers:
While you have to restart Windoze for the slightest tweak (REALLY STUPID DESIGN),
the *only* time you MUST restart UNIX is when you replace the OS kernel
(think: going from 98FE to 98SE).
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