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Windoze story.....
my office machine runs Win95, it's attached AFAIK to a Windows NT LAN bu
if I understood everything about network administration I'd be doing
it. Anyway, even if you aren't doing anything, every so often the network
or maybe the network card driver spins up your disk - is it just pinging
it or what? anyway, I'm sure it's something routine. Well I just had some
new software installed (in house stuff for a project I have to work
on) and my 3GB disk is over 2/3 full, so I decided to run Windows Defrag
and maximize my free space and performance. It kept restarting itself over
and over and over, because everytime the disk whirred a little bit it said
the contents of the drive had changed slightly so you had to do it over
again! The whole process took over two hours! Somehow I don't think the
disk utilities bundled with Win95 were designed with networked machines in
mind. very stand-alone oriented. Well whe I was done it did show I had an
extra 85 megabytes free, (if only five percent of your drive is fragmented
these days that's a lot of megabytes..)
Kristin
well they might have been doing after hourse lan maintenance, but I
couldn't have spared the time during the workday to run Windoze Defrag
