At 02:16 PM 6/8/01, you wrote:
> >
>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
Yup. And I have right around 90GB to defrag. So anytime you don't hear
from me for a couple of months, you'll know what I'm doing . . .
-- Ronn! :)
