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To: Patricia Meaney who wrote (26259)3/19/2002 11:27:58 AM
From: Stang  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110653
 
<How important is it to run Defrag?>

The benefit of Defrag is improve speed/performance of your system and applications.

I suspect that your hard drive had hardware problems and that's why Defrag killed it.

I run Defrag once a week and it's well worth the effort in saving me time when using my systems.

Win98 and WinXP defrag will actually re-position your most frequently used applications to the faster sections of your HD. Therefore said apps load/close faster etc..

Stang



To: Patricia Meaney who wrote (26259)3/19/2002 11:59:09 AM
From: Bicycle  Respond to of 110653
 
When disks were much slower and smaller than today, defragmenting would make a noticeable improvement.

A defragmented disk will increase your system's speed by reducing the time your disk head is not positioned to read or write. Modern disks operate so fast this wasted time is insignificant, and higher capacity disks transfer more data with equivalent mechanical movement.

Windows XP does things differently...

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Bye4Now, FD.


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