David W. Fenton wrote:
You have something wrong with your machine that is not common on other machines. At least, I've never seen anything like what you describe. Ever. On literally dozens of machines that I'm responsible for.Funny, I see it all the time. And I see a improvements after defragmentation.
A small toll, one that is worth defragmenting every month or so or after any major churning of your drive (such as an OS upgrade). Also, one thing that makes a huge difference is how you partition your drives. If you have a single drive partition for OS and for programs and for data, then you're going to have more problems with fragmentation than if you have a partition for your OS, a separate partition for your programs and a third for data. You shouldn't have to defrag the system partition very often at all, except after an OS patch or a major upgrade. The programs partitition shouldn't need to be defragmented except after you've installed a bunch of new applications (program folders are mostly read-only, so once defragged, they stay that way). The data partition could benefit from being frequently defragged if your data files are quite large (on the order of 10s of megabytes, e.g., graphics files).Um, lets see. Athlon 2.8 Running XP with a 120 Gig 7200 RPM drive. And two sticks of 512 3200 Memory I think. I see improvement after defrags. Mozilla loads faster, switching programs is faster. Everything.
But I've never seen a system's performance improve dramatically after a defrag, unless the machine was very badly defragmented and had not been defragged before. Regularly defragging, while a good idea, should not result in noticeable performance increases, unless, perhaps, your machine is marginal in terms of CPU speed and RAM in the first place. With lots of RAM, you won't see much in the way of improvement with frequent defragging.
<>Most utilities are worthless except for data recovery and disk repair. My experience with most utilities is that they make you feel they are worthwhile by falsely informing you of how many problems you have. I've often seen utilities that run as background monitoring processes cause most of the problems they are reporting. Regular maintenance with the tools provided with the OS are sufficient for most problems.
Yikes! Well, whatever. I give you. You seem to be the expert on it. I stand by my statements that I see improvements after defragmenting a drive.
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