I miss th eold defrag

I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.

In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
"interest value" to geeky people like me.

Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
sectors on the disk were moved around.

I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!

"MikeB" <> wrote in message
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> I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>
> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>
> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>
> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!

I would certainly agree with that, and slow too at least when defragging
manually. I know many will suggest letting it run in the background to give
best results, but for me I have always preferred doing it manually as part
of my routine maintenance.
I suspect they wanted to leave some headroom for third party defraggers.

I did recently purchase Diskeeper 2009, works very well on my Vista Ultimate
64 bit.



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MikeB,

Give Smart Defrag a try. At least it's free.

http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html?Str=download

Drew


"MikeB" <> wrote in message
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>I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>
> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>
> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>
> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!
>

Give JKDefrag a try, it's pretty neat small and doesn't need to be
installed:

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JkDefrag

JkDefrag has several excellent characteristics:

* Low overhead: it does not place an undue burden on the system;
* Fully automated operation: there are no interactive buttons or menus;
* Options aren't necessary, but a wide range can be selected using the
Command line interface, allowing full control for scheduled defragmentation
and with administrator scripts;
* No need for installation; runs with default options by merely opening
JkDefrag.exe;
* Screensaver defragmentation, with the option to run another screen
saver when done;
* Complete source code (Microsoft Visual C++ 2005) available for
download;
* A DLL library (for use in programming) licensed using the LGPL; and
* Support for 64 bit versions of Windows XP and Vista;
* Excellent documentation available on the web site.;
* Two versions: Both the GUI version and the character-oriented version
have numerous command line options.

JkDefrag runs on the Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Operating Systems, and
defragments both FAT and NTFS filesystems. It uses the standard Windows
defragmentation API exclusively; it is entirely safe. User support is
provided through web-based forums.

"Drew T" <> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:...
> MikeB,
>
> Give Smart Defrag a try. At least it's free.
>
> http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html?Str=download
>
> Drew
>
>
> "MikeB" <> wrote in message
> news:85a2c421-5bd7-4bb6-acde-...
>>I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>>
>> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
>> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
>> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>>
>> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
>> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>>
>> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!
>>
>

MikeB wrote:
> I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>
> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>
> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>
> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!

I prefer to do work with my machine, rather than watching paint dry......


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"MikeB" <> wrote in message
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>I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>
> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>
> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>
> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!


Get your head examined.
Defrag GUI's are random number generators making blinking colored boxes.
Being based on the Vista defrag engine, the only performance gain would be
by upping the priority.

Gordon <> wrote:

>MikeB wrote:
>> I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>>
>> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
>> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
>> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>>
>> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
>> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>>
>> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!
>
>I prefer to do work with my machine, rather than watching paint dry......

Yeah, and think of all the chances you'd miss to be a buttinski and
nanny!

Frank Holman wrote:
> Gordon <> wrote:
>
>> MikeB wrote:
>>> I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>>>
>>> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
>>> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
>>> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>>>
>>> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
>>> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>>>
>>> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!
>> I prefer to do work with my machine, rather than watching paint dry......
>
> Yeah, and think of all the chances you'd miss to be a buttinski and
> nanny!

Idiot.

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Gordon <> wrote:

>Frank Holman wrote:
>> Gordon <> wrote:
>>
>>> MikeB wrote:
>>>> I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>>>>
>>>> In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
>>>> your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
>>>> "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>>>>
>>>> Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
>>>> sectors on the disk were moved around.
>>>>
>>>> I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring!
>>> I prefer to do work with my machine, rather than watching paint dry......
>>
>> Yeah, and think of all the chances you'd miss to be a buttinski and
>> nanny!
>
>Idiot.

Just checking to see if you plonked me as you claimed on the 22nd (I
knew you wouldn't).

Full quote:

"And you're a right idiot plonker. The fool of an Op doesn't have a
clue - just like you.
PLONK!"

People like you have to know what's being said about them. It's a
weakness.

On Jan 25, 10:36*am, Gordon <gordonbpar...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> MikeB wrote:
> > I liked the older defrags a lot more than the current XP defrag.
>
> > In the "good ole days" you could get a little graphic image of how
> > your disk looked before and after defrag. that at least has osme
> > "interest value" to geeky people like me.
>
> > Before that, defrag actually had graphics showing how the little
> > sectors on the disk were moved around.
>
> > I miss those. The Vista Defrag is udderly boring! *
>
> I prefer to do work with my machine, rather than watching paint dry......
>

To each his own, right? Sometimes I find small amusements like
watching paint dry a nice way of passing the time.

As someone once said " Sometimes I sets and thinks, sometimes I just
sets."