In news:qr6_l.91$ZL3.40@read4.inet.fi,
John Doue typed on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:44:54 GMT:
> BillW50 wrote:
>
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>> I'll try defragging my Gateway laptop again, but I swear I never see
>> any speed improvements. So I don't know what the big deal is all
>> about. On old MFM drives, they were so slow, it *did* make a huge
>> difference there. But I never seen any improvement on IDE drives yet.
>>
>
> Me neither. Defragging is very satisfying for the mind, but its actual
> advantages are non perceptible and the risks are non negligible. I
> have gradually stop defraging my machines.
>
> The only thing which actually seems to make it beneficial might be in
> case of a file crash. It is probably easier to recover one continuous
> file than one spread all over the place.

Hi John! Yes I agree.

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Bill
Windows 2000 SP4
Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC