Fast Defrag 2 Professional

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:36 am

Tormentius wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:btw, isn't a DAILY defrag a bit overkill?
Agreed. Once a week is even overkill IMO. Once a month is more than enough and the built-in defrag app does the trick just fine (and eliminates another background process such as the one Diskeeper leaves active).

This defrag takes 20 mins or less when done everyday, I schedule it for when I'm nearly never on. It may take longer if I've fragmented my HD up a fair amount over the day.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:37 am

Tormentius wrote: Yes, there a couple excellent memory management apps available: they're called Windows 2000 or Windows XP. Both OS' do a more than adequate job of managing their own memory. Check the link Foo posted for a more detailed explanation.

Noted.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 3:09 am

SoM wrote:tru, but you love me now since i have a legit copy of XP PRO

*hug*

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:36 pm

What do you think of Norton SystemWorks 2006?

Is there a feature that will allow one to run a scheduled PC diagnostic program? I realize it would entail an additional process running in the background, but as long as it doesn't suck up too many resources I remain interested.

Thoughts?

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 5:39 pm

Systemworks is a resource hog and isn't that useful. All of the little "utility apps" are generally useless programs that aren't worthwhile. Setting up regular backups is a far more worthwhile pursuit that most people ignore

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:21 pm

Torm's right. that beast eats resources like there's no tomorrow. avoid at all costs.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 2:54 am

I used an older version of systemworks and it was a resource hog. Apparently, little has changed since then.

Post by **Psyche911** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:50 am

I used to use an virus scanner (AVG), never had a virus so once after formatting (which I do every 6-12 months) I didn't reinstall it. The only thing I ever do is run the Windows defrag tool. Every 2 months or so. As long as you're not installing and uninstalling lots of stuff, I've found it just doesn't get very fragmented.

I enabled Windows Firewall, and I'm behind a router with a firewall so I'm good on that front.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:07 am

Progress report...

The Diskeeper software has been great (as far as I can tell), not a resource hog, doesn't ever bother me. Simply runs it's process for one hour every day (scheduled) when I'm not on. In the past week or two, I've moved around a good many gigs and installed my fair share of software. Yet when I occassionally check the defragmentation level of the HD, it's consistently low. The system has remained perky, slowing down only when the physical ram fills up or when programs screw up (or crash).

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 1:59 am

Foo wrote:I don't notice any performance gain with degragging since I moved from Windows 98.

Minor gains, but nothing that makes it worth doing.

Play something that really uses the HD for stuffs..

Post by **Hr.O** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:05 am

Massive Quasars wrote:It's a ram defragger. Any good? Seems to cause sporadic system slow downs, though that may be caused by any number of other programs.

Lose Norton AV, any sys I installed that POS on I got what I call system hickups, short (1 or 2 secs) of system lag/slowdown.

nowadays i use Avast antivirus, Zone alarm for firewall (takes a bit of manual sys maitenance), and Spybot S&D for anti spyware. No troubles whatsoever. but then again i do not venture into pr0n/Kazaa or any other highrisk areas of the shitternet

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:57 pm

Hr.O wrote:but then again i do not venture into pr0n/Kazaa or any other highrisk areas of the shitternet

Best not to assume...

Norton AV uses a little more resources but it's served me well, no problems with the version I'm using. I hate ZoneAlarm, I'll stick to Sygate.

Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 9:41 pm

Defragging doesn't offer much performance increase for some, for others it drastically improves - it all depends on what you use your PC for.

But even if it doesn't give you any performance gain, you should always run it at least semi-regularly, as it will increase the life of your hard drive. The more fragmented a drive gets, the more it has to run all over the platter to read data. Over a long period of time that will wear out the moving parts in your drive faster, which are what almost always go bad when a drive fails. It may not be a huge difference, but it's worth the minimal time it takes to schedule defrags to run when you're not around.

Post by **Hr.O** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:16 am

Massive Quasars wrote:
Hr.O wrote:but then again i do not venture into pr0n/Kazaa or any other highrisk areas of the shitternet
Best not to assume...

Norton AV uses a little more resources but it's served me well, no problems with the version I'm using. I hate ZoneAlarm, I'll stick to Sygate.

affermative on the firewall, but regarding norton, just try you can allways reinstall. I can't realy point to as why Norton messes up, but on open-GL games i play(ed) i had troubles, and replacing norton solved it each and every time.

[edit] i did assume, since it's pretty hard not to get into some highrisk areas sometimes. avoiding them lessens the risk (fi. i regard site as somethingawfull and nowadays even qeradiant.com as risky sites. They slap you around with large trouts full off adds, popups, and as a bonus; crates full of cookies)[/edit]

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