re: Defraging with Me tool
Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Alan Masterman
(364 messages posted)
Hi Jack,
I know this conversation's already a week old but I'd like to throw in two cents'
worth.
Time permitting, you should always optimise because defragmentation by itself is
only half a job. Defragging will, roughly speaking, merely join up files wherever
the main concentration of fragments happens to be.
Full optimisation will join up the files and, in addition, relocate them so that
they are placed in the optimum logical relationship to each other.
One of the things a good optimiser will do, for example, is to read the DLL dependencies
as it goes along and relocate the related files so that a whole application can be
loaded and run with the minimum number of read passes. You don't get this benefit
if you're only defragging.
Those of us ancient enough to remember FAT8 and FAT16 file systems will recall the
huge performance losses fragmentation used to cause under those systems... but these
days the average user, with his 32-bit NT system, is inclined to overestimate its
importance.
On Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 12:01 pm, jack hall wrote:
>Thanks guys for all the input, but my question was whether to use the option of
re-arranging
>files when defragging.
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- re: Defraging with Me tool (jack hall: Saturday, December 29, 2007 at 12:01 pm)
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