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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11459)	11/11/2000 6:58:46 PM
From: Rick Faurot	Respond to of 14778

If anybody besides me needs an explanation of RAID, here's a good one: dell.com Rick

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11459)	11/11/2000 9:10:58 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Could you explain what swapping is and how would I know if this is occurring? Say all your memory is being used and there is no more room in memory to load an additional program. Now when you try to load another program Windows 98 will make room in memory for your new program by moving one or more of your previously loaded programs to a swap file on your hard disk. Moving a program to a swap file doesn't close a program. The program will still have an icon on the task bar. Next if you were to click on a task bar icon that represents a program that is stored in a swap file one or more of your previously loaded programs will be moved to your swap file and the program you want to run next will be moved from the swap file and loaded in memory in the space just vacated. This process of moving programs between memory and your swap file is called swapping. A swap file is a special file Windows 98 created when you installed Windows 98. Loading a program from a swap file is much faster than re-loading a program you previously closed. You can tell if swapping is occurring by observing the length of time it takes Windows 98 to respond to your request when you click on a program represented by a task bar icon. There will be a noticeable delay if swapping is occurring. Whereas the response will be essentially instantaneous when there is no swapping.

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (11459)	11/12/2000 9:56:26 PM
From: Howard R. Hansen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

Also, separate question, can you tell me what is the benefit of defragging, what is defragging, and how often would you recommend defragging? One way to think about defragging is to compare it with how mail carrier routes are set up. For example a mail carrier delivers mail to consecutive locations on a street. But what if a mail carrier had to deliver mail to locations scattered throughout a city. In this case his route would be fragmented. Whereas when a carrier delivers mail to consecutive location his route is defragmented. Similar with a hard disk for best performance all of the data in a file should be stored in consecutive locations on a hard disk instead of scattered throughout a hard disk Deleting and adding files to a hard disk causes a hard disk to become fragmented. Therefore, how often you delete and add files to your hard disk determines how often you may want to defrag your hard disk. A user who rarely deletes files may want to defrag his hard disk once a year. Whereas a user who is constantly deleting and adding files and has some unusual performance requirements may want to defrag his hard disk once a week. However, because hard disks are so much faster now defragging a hard disk is not as important as it once was. Most users will not notice any difference in performance between a fragmented and a defragmented disk.