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To: mr.mark who wrote (10237)	6/22/2000 5:35:00 PM
From: Ed Forrest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Mark That was a good one.Kudos. Cheers Ed

To: mr.mark who wrote (10237)	6/22/2000 6:26:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

mr mark, you're absolutely right: defrag before install! My previous thinking was flawed. I like the egg carton analogy. :) Thank you for sharing your uninstall thinking. I have to ponder that and maybe read the Norton documentation more closely. Gottfried

To: mr.mark who wrote (10237)	6/22/2000 9:39:00 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110626

Defragging and installing software ... Go ahead and defrag first. Your defrag software will check the way files are used on your system and put them not only in continuous sectors, but in an efficient order as well. Installing new software can cause new fragmentation if the procedure creates temporary files which get erased before the work completes. These freshly deleted temporary files will leave data 'holes' on your disk which the file system will most likely fill as additional data is written. Defragging after installing new software would correct this situation. Further, sophisticated defrag programs consult the 'file use' tables to determine where to put the file. Newly installed software's files wouldn't have had the opportunity of being placed in this table properly, so they would most likely be treated as recently accessed data. Over time, your system will grow to understand how your files are used and become more accurate in placing them on you disk for optimal performance. Hope this helps, PW. P.S. I'm sure you know already, but Norton's defrag utility causes your disk to be checked for some common problems as well.