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Ros - 25 Nov 2005 04:08 GMT

Yesterday, after removing much old rubbish from a small (3gb) HD and
updating ME and IE, I defragged, checked a few sites to find out if there
was a quicker way of doing it, then defragged again. I did not notice much
improvement the speed of loading apps, but it has been some time since I
used this old standby machine and only a short time on a more recent XP
machine makes the performance an older machine seem very slow by comparison.
Today, out of curiosity, I started defrag again and was astonished to see
how defragmented the drive seemed to be. It has taken 25 mins. to complete.
I cannot understand why the detailed view of the process shows so many empty
spaces scattered about the drive or why, apparently, so much re-arrangement
seems to be taking place after the last defrag. Defrag also re-started at
several stges during its run, unlike last night when it staggered through in
one go.

Could this be a sign of a deapseated problem indicating that a reformat is
probably necessary, or at least adviseable?
tia,
Ros

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Ros - 25 Nov 2005 08:29 GMT

Heather,

Yes please, I'd love the original version of Enditall. I had it once but
lost it at some stage.

Jim,

"Sunny" Brisbane? Shame on you. It's been tipping it down the last few
days and - Hurrah, at last the pool has been topped up naturally. (My only
claim to fame is being the world's leading expert on not waterng the
lawn/topping up the pool until both resemble the middle of the Simpson
Desert and then, of course, exactly 12 hours later we're in the middle of
widespread flash floods! Rain dances? Nuts! Just give me a call to get me
to water the damn grass!

I'm brassed off with the old ME cloncker. I'm going to reformat, hope it
solves all problems, hand it
over to undeserving offspring with a "Go to it, Lad!"

It seems that there's a problem running scandisk now -constant restarts
etc. It can be sorted out I know, but on any analysis, a reformat is the
better alternative?
R

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Heather - 25 Nov 2005 18:15 GMT

Hi Ros...download EndItAll at the link that Mart provided. I checked the
documentation and it is Version 1.0. If I send it to you it will have to be
in zipped format....same as that one. Let me know if you still need my
copy.

HTH......Heather

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Jim Cladingboel - 26 Nov 2005 04:41 GMT

Ros,

I would agree with you except that here in Cleveland, on the Bayside,
all the damned rain seems to go west and north of us. A few days ago,
we had 94% humidity caused by everybody else's rain! There's a few
of my neighbours who would like their pools topped up like your one,
but glad you've been lucky.

Jim
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