I'm looking for an effective and safe alternative to the windows XPdisk defragmentation. Hopefully I can find one that can also defragment the windows part of the drive so that my computer will once again boot quickly.
What is the best free defragment program out there?
Thanks.
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XP does its own defragging whenever the system isn't in use, usually at night or whenever. That's why you always see your system light busy if you happen to peek over at the machine.
If you're having trouble booting quickly, try getting rid of programs that take ages to load up, or disable their "Load at startup" options.
If you're having trouble booting quickly, try getting rid of programs that take ages to load up, or disable their "Load at startup" options.
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daughter loads so much crap on here system we have to keep an active program on there.. stupid gain/gator .. grr
slows a system WAY down .. her computer booted clean a few weeks ago .. excellent wireless strength. within a week it was down to fair .. grr
thank goodness we are literate enough to know how to fix it :P
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Yasden wrote:XP does its own defragging whenever the system isn't in use, usually at night or whenever. That's why you always see your system light busy if you happen to peek over at the machine.
If you're having trouble booting quickly, try getting rid of programs that take ages to load up, or disable their "Load at startup" options.
Yeah, go to start>run> then type msconfig and click ok (or run can't remember). Click the startup tab and start disabling some of the crap there. You may have a problem with your total amount of stored data also. Windows defrag program is fine...not the bomb shit, but it works well enough to show you a difference if it will help in the first place.
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Yasden wrote:XP does its own defragging whenever the system isn't in use, usually at night or whenever. That's why you always see your system light busy if you happen to peek over at the machine.
Wierd... I've never seen this behavior on any of my XP systems either at home or work. Did you set up defrag through task scheduler? Or is something else silly running like indexing service or some spyware?
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I actually build computers and servers at work and install windows and oracle onto them. I know about msconfig and regedit.
What I don't know is if there is a better defrag program than windows. I also do not leave my machine on when I am not using it.
What I don't know is if there is a better defrag program than windows. I also do not leave my machine on when I am not using it.
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defrag is nearly a complete waste of time these days. once upon a time about 12 years ago it was moderately worthwhile (although it often caused as many problems as it "solved"). Today, I believe its more of a fad than function. Disks just generally don't get that fragmented that there is any speed gain. You could probably get faster performance by increasing your disk block size or installing a second disk and moving your swap file to it.
If your computer is running slow its 99% because of extra programs. Do a fresh install of windows, it'll boots in 2.2 seconds, add ms office, it now boots in 10 seconds and its not even spyware. Download 10 different media players, 6 different image editing programs and 5 messengers and skype and its gonna get up like a vwbug on an 8% grade (yes im exaggerating).
If your computer is running slow its 99% because of extra programs. Do a fresh install of windows, it'll boots in 2.2 seconds, add ms office, it now boots in 10 seconds and its not even spyware. Download 10 different media players, 6 different image editing programs and 5 messengers and skype and its gonna get up like a vwbug on an 8% grade (yes im exaggerating).
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