>And that sums up the capabilities of Norton. Pretty colors. Makes you feel >like you accomplished something when you didn't. Meh. >-- >Kyle H. Hansen
Sorry to dissagree with the great Obi-Wan, but I must. While I am not a Certified Apple Technician, I do play one at work (I am a self taught administrator for a Mac/NT server/PC network). On my personal Mac I have over 65,000 files on the HD, not very well organized. When these were on a 9G HD (with a total of about 2G free space) I would defrag with Norton whenever it got into the moderate range of fragmented files and I would notice an IMMEDIATE speedup in opening folders with lots of files, startup (particularly when I booted off the norton CD and let it defrag and optimize the startup volume) and almost anthing else that had to read a lot of info off of the disk. Norton would also defrag the Desktop files which would allow the Mac to find files quicker than if the desktop file was in a number of fragments. The most I have seen on my Mac was 23 fragments. Just think how much searching the drive has to do to read all of those fragments just to find a file on the disk. Of course, YMMV, Len -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
