Re: [H] Test

2010-01-12 Thread Rick Glazier
I missed yours Duncan - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [H] Test Odd... ? I got yours. :) Best, Duncan On 01/11/2010 23:36, Stan Zaske wrote: I'm not getting anything..

Re: [H] Test

2010-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 05:09 PM 1/11/2010, Bino Gopal wrote: Huh?! Lol, what other listserv talks about ours here?! I didn't know we were that famous... :P Dude, this is where all the cool kids hang out. :) T BINO -Original Message- From:

Re: [H] Test

2010-01-12 Thread DSinc
Rick, Odd, but not surprised given all the various platforms and channels in play. Best, Duncan On 01/12/2010 03:39, Rick Glazier wrote: I missed yours Duncan - Original Message - From: DSinc dx7...@bellsouth.net To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 11:48 PM

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Bino Gopal
So just got an email for half-price on OO Defrag 12 Pro; so $14.95 instead of $30...has anyone who tried out OO think that it's worth that price for v12 vs the free v10? 48 hr deal only for anyone who registered to dl the v10 through the link Zul sent (thanks again for that btw!).

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Tim Lider
Hello all, Did you guys forget Diskeeper. Diskeeper is the mother of all Defraggers. http://www.diskeeper.com/ It even prevents a majority of fragmentation. Regards, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com -Original Message-

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread tmservo
I really find diskkeeper pretty blah. But their windows home server add on is nice Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tim Lider timli...@adv-data.com Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:40:16 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG! Hello all, Did

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
You guys still run defraggers? On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: I really find diskkeeper pretty blah. But their windows home server add on is nice Sent via BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Tim Lidertimli...@adv-data.com Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:40:16

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:54 PM 1/12/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: You guys still run defraggers? That's what I was thinking. I've never been able to show an improvement in speed with a defragger in years. I did some tests about five years ago and after repeatedly failing to get any better than a 5%

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread JRS
Same here, ran Diskkeeper licenses for years, but gave up running it when XP seemed to be fine with or without it... -- JRS stei...@pacbell.net Facts do not cease to exist just because they are ignored. - Original Message From: Thane Sherrington

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Al
Before doing an OS install, I used to put a couple of gigs of stuff on a drive. Then after the install, and letting the OS work for a short while, I'd remove the filler stuff, and defrag would have all that space to move the files into. Back in the 98se days, when the OS would keep track of

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Winterlight
I do system maintenance over night from a batch file which includes command line defrag and wipe. But if you want a traditional defrag program Auslogics has a really nice one for free. At 10:46 AM 1/12/2010, you wrote: Before doing an OS install, I used to put a couple of gigs of stuff on

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread DSinc
Yes. I use the defrag utility in WinXPpro once a month. Agreed it may not be the strongest available, but... :) Something wrong with this plan? Duncan On 01/12/2010 11:54, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: You guys still run defraggers? On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote: I really

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Tim Lider
Yes we do. Increases speed on boot devices. Although, I strongly not recommend using Defrag on a SSD drive. You only have a number of write's to the memory cells before it does not work anymore. I use and recommend Diskeeper, because it is well integrated into Windows XP, Vista, 7, 2003 and

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 03:22 PM 1/12/2010, DSinc wrote: Yes. I use the defrag utility in WinXPpro once a month. Agreed it may not be the strongest available, but... :) Something wrong with this plan? It won't do anything for you speed wise, but I doubt it hurts. T

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:10 PM 1/12/2010, Tim Lider wrote: Yes we do. Increases speed on boot devices. Although, I strongly not recommend using Defrag on a SSD drive. You only have a number of write's to the memory cells before it does not work anymore. I do a lot of speed tune ups for customers, and have

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Joe User
Hello Thane, Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 12:23:28 PM, you wrote: At 12:54 PM 1/12/2010, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: You guys still run defraggers? That's what I was thinking. I've never been able to show an improvement in speed with a defragger in years. I did some tests about five years ago

Re: [H] Free new years gift for HWG!

2010-01-12 Thread Stan Zaske
I use Diskeeper for a manual defrag every now and then. I don't like it running in the background however as it sometimes causes a noticeable drag on performance. On 1/12/2010 10:54 AM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: You guys still run defraggers? On 1/12/2010 11:46 AM, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:

[H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-12 Thread Stan Zaske
Well, I used some cash in my PayPal account and bought a VisionTech HD5770. It arrived today and it's a sweet video card. My old (VisionTech coincidently) HD4850 is noticeably less powerful and burned many more electrons at idle and load. The card also runs much cooler (reported by Catlalyst