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post #21 of 33
2/15/05 at 3:24pm
I defrag every night. I'm taking the approach of being proactive.
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post #22 of 33
2/15/05 at 8:25pm
i just got my scores fromo pcpitstop. usually they raise a warning flag saying my hdd is fragmented but this time there was no such warning. fragmentation was less than 1% apparently. and i got a speed of 32 mb/s from my hdd.
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post #23 of 33
2/16/05 at 10:57pm
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Originally Posted by suryad
defrag slows the boot down a bit but thats the only thing. once a week i run microsoft bootvis and voila my boot is back up to speed
Check out the second paragraph here.
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post #24 of 33
2/17/05 at 12:31am
i read that before and i have to say thats not true. because i get performance increases....and so does my brother and his friends and my friends etc. i dont understand why ms would say that especially considering when their product does actually work for once. for example in a non bootvis situation, 8-9 of those xp scrolling things are shown on the screen and then the machine boots up completely a little after that. after bootvis that cuts down to 5 scrolls and then it boots up. it shave 4-5 seconds of my booting time. my brothers machine has an even more pronounced effect. just relating my experiences thats all.
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post #25 of 33
2/17/05 at 12:36am
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Originally Posted by diabolus
Check out the second paragraph here.
Ah, that's Microsoft pickin' nits. It's still moving all the Window's dll's, ini's and startup programs into a more organized pattern on the HDD platter, but I agreee it's not "optimizing" anything by removing unneeded startup files. I've got a crappy Gateway desktop I use for web surfing and a little graphics work, and it boots slooooow. When I "Bootvis'd" it, it compartmentalized all the startup files during the kernel and dumped the GUI and all the dll's quickly into the RAM and VR for a faster startup.

It was an appreciable change, because the previous load would have posted my GUI first, and spent another 20 seconds (like I said, sloooow) placing the dll's into the VR and RAM. It still has a pause during the "MICROSOFT" black screen graphic, but when it goes, it goes quickly.
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post #26 of 33
2/17/05 at 2:18am
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Originally Posted by suryad
i read that before and i have to say thats not true. because i get performance increases....
That's good enough for me - I'm gonna DL it. I was actually just looking for a place to DL it when I found that MS article by accident.
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post #27 of 33
2/17/05 at 4:08am
oh yeah also check out nLite. i have a 240 mb install now from the original dell oem cd which was 550 mb or something like that. very slick stuff. i am gonna test it out but i am gonna have to wait for a bit at least till this quarter is over before i play around with reinstalling the os.
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post #28 of 33
2/17/05 at 11:55am
I just tried bootvis last night. I decreased the time to get to my desktop from around 20 seconds to around 8. Great util.
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post #29 of 33
2/19/05 at 7:15pm
I defrag about once a week. Ill run perfectdisk and it will usually tell me to do a smartplacement defrag which usually takes over half and hour. Then I run a boot time defrag.

I find it helps.
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post #30 of 33
2/20/05 at 12:35am
Defragging is such a waste of time. Just do a reformat and all is good as new. I reformat about once a month. Aside from that, I occasionally defrag my storage drives about once a year. Never defrag my system drive unless I am bored and don't have anything better to do.
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post #31 of 33
2/20/05 at 1:10am
... as opposed to reinstalling all your apps?
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post #32 of 33
2/20/05 at 2:17pm
I only defrag while I'm sleeping. Doesn't really waste much of my time considering I'm... well... sleep.
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post #33 of 33
2/20/05 at 3:50pm
damn reformattnig once a month?! why in the name of god would you reformat?!?! is ur xp install that bad?
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