re: SLOW running dos program in XP
Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at 6:56 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by morley
(36 messages posted)
Excellent, JB! Yeah--I tried all the different settings for dos as well. I guess
that explains the ONLY difference between my laptop (NFTS) and my work desktop (FAT32)
and why things went wrong on the laptop. For relative "newbies" such as myself,
these things are not readily explained while setting up an operating system. If
I had maybe done some more research on NFTS BEFORE formatting my hard drive perhaps
I would have made the MFT larger. One last question (I hope!), which software did
you use? I see that there may be a few choices, but Diskeeper offers a trial version
for WinXP Home (does not mention PRO version). Thanks for your help--I appreciate
it very much,
morley
On Monday, February 9, 2004 at 9:07 pm, JB wrote:
>Hello again Morley
>When I read your reply, I tried different settings for DOS, but could not find any
>that made any difference. So I went back to "Windows XP Annoyances" and have found
>the answer. Presumably, as you posted your original message here, you have access
>to the book? Chapter 5: Maximizing Performance, section Advanced NTFS Settings,
page
>185. Among all that stuff, he mentions that the master file table(MFT) can become
>fragmented, causing bad performance, and he says on page 187 "Unfortunately, the
>only way to defragment or rebuild the MFT is to format the drive." On the internet,
>I found software that can defragment the MFT, downloaded a free trial version, ran
>it, and my problem has gone.
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