Defrag Does anyone know of any good defrag programs that work with XP? The one that comes with it is slow as fuck!
thats cos the first part does most work (usually anyway...) seems like its gonna take an age (specially when ya sit starin @ screen ) i tend just to leave it goin and go do summit else...
the last time i defragged my comp, i hadnt done it in a bloody long time.... it took over 6 hours to do it. mind i had 60 gig's worth of shit rammed into it. i just cant be bothered to do it again. it really needs to be re-formatted, but i have that many things i would need to back up, it would take HOURS to back them up.... *pah*
is it not best to run defrag in safe mode? as this stops most changes being made to the drive while defrag is running so the defrag will run quicker
aye, kid's right, safe mode is best - otherwise it keeps restarting cause it thinks programs are running - if u let it run overnight, you'll get up in the morning to find its done chuff all. Does XP have a similar startup menu where u can select safe mode though? make sure screen savers are turned off - also look at the power management options - monitors, hard disks, stuff like that. Close as much shite in yer system tray. Could also use the Services in control panel to shut loads of things off.
make sure when you defrag that the disk has plenty of space free. If you try to defrag a 100gb disk that is 98% full, it's gotta shuffle a shit load of files about in a tiny space, give it bout 10% free i.e. 100mb free on a 100gb HD
