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Stiffler wrote on 10/23/2002, 12:56 AM
I'm new to XP, but I have not had any problems defragging.

I have all my 'Applications' shut down, but I still have alot of 'Processes' running.

With WinME, I was able to shut everything down (almost), But I'm not sure what 'processes' I can safely shut down?
PDB wrote on 10/23/2002, 3:07 AM
I defragged on Xp yesterday with no probs (except that the system requires the drive to have at least 15% of its space free to do so...) Mind you I had nothing running in the backround: was first thing I did when I logged in...

Sorry but don't know what your prob is...
Control_Z wrote on 10/23/2002, 12:42 PM
With NTFS you don't have to shut anything down to defrag. Of course, if the drive is being written to a lot the defrag will not have as much effect. In fact, the built in defragger is so bad your drive will show as fragged the next day anyway.

I use PerfectDisk and have no trouble. You didn't make the awful mistake of installing fat/32 did you? Also remember the first time will be a long one. But it should be finished overnight.
MoBetta wrote on 10/23/2002, 5:51 PM
If you are serious about defrag., you must try Diskeeper 7.0. It will give you a complete system defrag., not a partial one like Windows.

MoBetta
Toxic9000 wrote on 10/23/2002, 10:56 PM
thanks...i just got diskeeper and i will use it from now on
statas wrote on 10/27/2002, 3:06 AM
what is the difference between windows defrag and diskeeper or perfectdisk?
oddboy wrote on 10/27/2002, 3:19 AM
how often are you guys defraging-with constant file creation and delation
Control_Z wrote on 10/27/2002, 6:04 PM
The defragger included with WinXP is a kind of 'Diskeeper Lite'. Same basic program, just some disabled features.

I've used all 3 and the biggest difference that's noticeable (there are others) is that PerfectDisk rearranges the files intelligently so as to minimize future fragmentation. Instead of having to run it every day you can leave it a while.

Obviously how often you defrag depends on how you use the drive. For our office machines once a year would probably be fine. But I often defrag my video capture drives overnight after each capture, and all the others at the same time for no particular reason.