Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html Interesting. Thanks for the link, though I think you're being *highly* optimistic in thinking that anyone will even

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc), but that's probably wrong (though MS did license it from them, right?). John Socha (of NC fame) basically invented the screensaver, Peter Norton basically invented undelete,

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc) ... (Yeah, I know, others probably independently discovered it all too.) Nope: See

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 09:12 AM 2/16/2012, Rugxulo wrote: You'd think DOS (direct hardware access) would be an ideal environment for defragging, and certainly DJGPP should be robust enough, in theory, but I guess some people prefer to do it in the background of Windows itself while running other stuff. Remember

[Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html It was one of the project of the month candidates. UltraDefrag defrags FAT, NTFS, exFAT, including registries and swap/pagefiles and MFT structures. Comes with a GUI and a command line version.

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-15 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 23:28 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html It was one of the project of the month candidates. UltraDefrag defrags FAT, NTFS, exFAT, including registries and swap/pagefiles and