Subject: Perfect Defragmentation IS now Achievable!

VoptXP, Perfectdisc V5.0 and Diskeeper Lite. (All work on '9x & ME)

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Having tried these products for the first time I have to say that I am very impressed 
indeed. I seem to have tried all the defragmenters available after having enormous 
problems with Windows Millennium Edition and a friend's '98se. 

Now by using VoptXP from www.goldenbow.com to optimise the swap-file into pagefile.sys 
and placing its 1024Mb at the front of the disk then running Perfectdisk moving the 
blue and yellow files to the front of the disk and the red files to the back-end 
of the disk and then back to the front again in two passes, I find that my directories 
have been compressed into one very much smaller block and that the rest of the files 
are now in two very smooth contiguous groups either side. 

You have to set the virtual memory settings to 1000Mb Min & Max first and rebooot 
the system, then use the figure 1000Mb in VoptXP too. 1024Mb is what you actually 
see as the size of pagefile.sys whilst WIN386.SWP now remains at zero bytes. 

When you run sysmon.exe you can still see Windows managing the swap-file inside, 
or within, pagefile.sys. NO more problem!

You may not need as big a swap-file (pagefile.sys as 1000Mb so say about 2·5 times 
your RAM) 

The disk now fizzes lightly, instead of crackling, and the programs open very fast 
indeed. Pages change in the blink of an eye and a posting to a Windows Forum showed 
on the screen ... instantly! Literally in the time it took to click the mouse button! 

I am frankly astonished at the difference, so I then ran Diskeeper, to see what difference 
that had made, as I like having Diskeeper's Smart Scheduling to be on ALL of the 
time to keep the disk defragmented automatically even when running and using programs. 
(Full Version only but Diskeeper Lite is VERY much faster than defrag.exe and makes 
a better job too.)

This feature does not seem to be available with Perfectdisk, although Perfectdisk 
can be scheduled to run once a day or once a week, and which, although apparently 
slower is VERY MUCH more thorough! It does get faster with time and the more frequent 
passes you do, as all defragmenters do. 

I have to say that I am finally delighted to have defragmenters which actually does 
the job it is supposed to do.
I now use Perfectdisk once a month and leave Diskeeper on all the time. (See settings 
in msconfig. Only ONE at a time.) 

YOU can use VoptXP to include the line: AlwaysUnloadDll in the registry which helps 
keep system resources free and to enable ConservativeSwapfileUse which makes Windows 
use the RAM 

***If you take VoptXP off your system do NOT perform a "roll-back" or you will lose 
all the settings! *** 

RAXTOR Perfectdisk 5.0 the BEST: http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k

Diskeeper Lite for fast, automatic defragmenting: http://www.diskeeper.com/execsoft.asp

VoptXP 7.13 for setting up an optimised swap-file: http://www.goldenbow.com

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