I can very highly recommend Diskeeper, since it also defrags directory listings, the MFT, etc.
It does make a difference to the speed of my machine, and you can just leave it to run in the background using "smart scheduling". -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nahum.Wild The only two dev machines with WinXP Pro on them here behave exactly the same way. Drives us nuts as most of our code consists of lots and lots of small files. Using the built-in defragger doesn't help and turning off the indexing service did help a bit. We had decided that it was cheap hardware with nasty hard drives being the problem - with no proof of course - and have been demanding new PCs. :o) Might try Diskeeper... > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > Is your disk getting fragmented? Especially when you're adding 65k > small files at a time? > > Try Diskeeper or something, not the built-in defragger... > > -----Original Message----- > From: Alistair George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > > Hi all. > this is a tad offtopic, but useful if someone knows the answer. > I made up a wee unit yesterday as follows: > procedure TMainform.ZIPmodeClick(Sender: TObject); > var > fp: file of Byte; > no: longint; > filename: string; > begin > for no := 1 to 65535 do > begin > filename := 'h:\Test' + inttostr(no) + '.txt'; > assignfile(fp, filename); > Rewrite(Fp); > CloseFile(Fp); > end; > end; > > Once the above is completed (on a 1.2Ghz machine it is SLOW). > Thereafter > explorer > is really choked/slow until I remove the files from whichever > directory > they > have been placed in. Explorers refresh if I click in the directory for > example > can take 2-3 minutes just to show the files within. Any > suggestions > on how to > overcome? They are all '0' size - could this be the problem or what? > Thanks, > Alistair+ > > Oh, BTW it was a test for the ability of a zip engine to zip > 65535 files > then > zip64 > 65535 files. > > PPS just found that by turning off 'indexing service' helps a lot > although the > target directory refresh is just as slow. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/
