Old Hippie Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Hi, how do I do this? Defrag and scan disc? Thought I knew, but am now clueless...really should buy a book or something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Yes, do it regularly. The more you use the computer, the more the software will be fragmented which will slow down the computer on the long run. Scandisk is a surface check of the disk and should be used occasionally too. Try to obtain Norton Systemworks 2003 (Kazaa?/Pantip ), which does this job better, than Windows, but you can use Windows as well if you open the explorer, right click on the HDD C: (and other partitions afterwords), open property (is this the right word in English?) and you will find Scandisk and Defrag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Theres a good program called Diskeeper which defrags far better that the comical version included in windows. You can pick it up on one of those compilation discs in Panthip. Should do whenever you install new software or set it to run every month. As kamui said my computer > right click the drive > properties > tools > both defrag and scandisk are there. If you do a surface scan it will take ages so make sure theres a good film on TV :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palatkik Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Just curious, what makes one defrag better than another? I?ve used Windows (now XP) defrag, then I might try Norton and it defrags all over again with a different report. Same applies vice versa. I have given up worrying about it and just use the Windows one now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 The main difference between diskeeper and windows is that the windows one takes over the PC while its working, is painfully slow and often gets to 10% and freaks out or wants to restart. i've found diskeeper to be more stable and quicker but essentially they do the same thing. In its defence XP comes with a lite version of diskeeper but it cant handle directories, only files, this is why you sometimes get an error in XP saying it cant defragment all the files. just my preference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Straycat Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 also Diskeeper can defrag the start-up files and the page file + you can set it to defrag once per day/month/whatever or choose the option 'set it & forget it' (= automatic defrag when needed). Timewise -- I found them both to be painfully slow...but I guess that's the nature of defrag software.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlton68 Posted September 5, 2003 Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Hi, there is a software named O+O Defrag Professional Edition from O+O Software. No freeware of course. See the link here . It has 5 different methods to defrag and explains quite good which one does what. I like it and use it. I can even see what files a fragmented cluster includes. It also includes the option to defrag pagefile and others during boot and you can set it to automatically defrag certain partitions once a defined fragmentation level is reached. The also offer an unearse tool which looks promising, but I have not used it, and the have a small freeware tool that is named DriveLED which enables you to monitor read and write acitvity for each partition. Downturn of it is that it disables the computer to go to standby or hibernation according to your power profile settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted September 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 5, 2003 Thanks to all! I have a Noton 2003 system works disk from Phantip, worked o.k. on the old computer, will try it here!! Thanks again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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