Twayne

That's why you should ignore "MS's defrag will tell you it's not
needed." You should select View Report and look at the real situation.
However, it's not just a matter of frequently accessed files. You will
normally not need to access System Restore restore points but if left
fragmented their size, will on a disk with limited free disk space,
cause fragmentation of other files, which are in active use.

It's questionable whether you want any Norton product on your computer.
Perfect Disk is I suspect more highly rated but there is really no need
to pay for a third party defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Twayne wrote:
>> That is one of the nice things about some of the third-party
>> defraggers like Diskeeper and PerfectDisk. They give you choices
>> between defragmentation strategies based on things like frequency of
>> access or high performance, etc.
>>
>> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
>> news:uvmFDKTuIHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> You can have two different scenarios. A preponderance of greatly
>>> fragmented files that you never access and greatly fragmented files
>>> that you frequently access. In generall you are more likely to see
>>> the second scenario. The numbers game is not a good guide on the
>>> need to defragment as it fails to distinguish between important
>>> files and those which do not matter.
>
> From what I've read, so does MS. That's why apps like NOrton can
> report say 33% fragmented and tell you to defrag, but MS's defrag
> will tell you it's not needed. Supposedly it looks at the how often
> accessed flags. I've never heard of anything that determines how
> "important" a file is to anything; not sure I'd trust that sort of a
> judgement to
> software.
> My 2 ¢
>
>
>>>
>>>
>>> ~~~~
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>>>
>>> Gerry
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>>> FCA
>>> Stourport, England
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