What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. SP2with limited free disk spaces?

[Gerry]

Phillip

Do not despair. That is a lot better than it was.

I do not know the answer to your question.

I would try Defraggler. You can defragment single files. Work throgh the
smaller files leaving the largest until the end.

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[Bill in Co.]

In Gerry typed on Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:18:38 -0000:

I disagree! I have used NTFS 512kb clusters before and I see nothing
wrong with them. Also Partition Magic can change the cluster sizes on
the fly. Although *not* always successfully I might add.

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3 Asus EEE PC 701G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
2 Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 1GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2 ~ Xandros Linux - Puppy - Ubuntu

Are you sure you mean 512KB, and not 512 byte? I think you mean 512 byte.

 

[Gerry]

Philip

With SP2 a big aid to success was to use an SP2 CD. You lost the hassle of a
long download.

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[Gerry]

Yes my slip Hawkeye.

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[Terry R.]

The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:23:08 AM, and on a
whim, Gerry pounded out on the keyboard:

Terry

I do read all posts in a thread I participate in so I knew who said what.

I would agree that Microsoft should have explained how to use System Restore
better. In the majority of cases before the changes to the third party
security software I suspect it worked in the majority of cases. However the
changes Norton made to their software created problems for the millions of
users using Norton software. Blame Norton not Microsoft.

Do you recommend Norton software to your clients?

It's not how to use SR, it needs to work better and more reliably,
probably self-diagnosing and self-healing, so when it's called on in a
moments notice, it can perform the task.

I stopped recommending NAV back in 2002, although the corporate edition
for servers and networks works well. After everything I have read
recently about NAV, it appears Symantec may have corrected the issues
that drove users away for years. But it's almost too late IMO.

I recommend and install Antivir for individual clients.


Terry R.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:05:28 AM, and on a
whim, BillW50 pounded out on the keyboard:

I don't understand why big companies have to take their systems
down for maintenance or system failures.

Talk to MS about that. Installing WU usually requires rebooting,
including servers.


Terry R.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:50:39 AM, and on a
whim, BillW50 pounded out on the keyboard:

In Terry R. typed on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:54:29 -0700:

I help people all of the time, and 99% of the time it fixes the problem.
Couple my experience times millions, it has to be in the millions.

Again, you can't "couple experience". Stating millions is your guess.

Useless if your monitor, CPU, RAM, motherboard, power supply, etc.
fails. Then your backups won't do you any good, now will they? I don't
care what kind of warrantee or service contract you have, they can never
beat my system. As I am always back up and running in seconds or two
minutes tops.

The backups do exactly what they're designed to do. I don't care if the
items you list go bad. NO ONE can do anything about hardware failing.
It happens. Your argument is ridiculous in light of having a good
backup schedule.

You think because you buy two of everything you're covered? Good luck
with that, and the wasted expense.


Terry R.

 

[Phil]

Jose,

I apologize for posting off topic here, but a reply to your post is right on
target.
I am responsible for maintaining 38 computers here, and SP3 has turned 21 of
them into electric paper weights.

This software was deployed after waiting months to allow it to be fixed.
Well you could have fooled me by all the GOOD reports about it being safe to
install this poorly written software.

Thanks Microsoft, for all the extra overtime I will now have to put in, in
order to correct your premature publication of a (so called) "Critical"
update.

My advice on SP3 is don't bother installing it, unless you like to gamble
with your companies time and resources.

SP3 may work for some SYSTEMS, but it is it far from prime time ready.

 

[Gerry]

Terry

I have read others saying what you have regarding the Corporate Edition. No
further changes will be made to System Restore in Windows XP. The function
in Vista has changes but not liking Vista I have not studied how it works.

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[Bill in Co.]

Why are there multiple separate posts on this with just some slight
variations in the subject line? One subject line for it is quite enough.

 

[Ant]

OK, I will try Defraggler then.

Phillip

Do not despair. That is a lot better than it was.

I do not know the answer to your question.

I would try Defraggler. You can defragment single files. Work throgh the
smaller files leaving the largest until the end.

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[Unknown]

Suggest you find the problem instead of blaming Microsoft.

 

[Terry R.]

The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:01:34 PM, and on a
whim, Bill in Co. pounded out on the keyboard:

Why are there multiple separate posts on this with just some slight
variations in the subject line? One subject line for it is quite enough.

There is only one thread I see, and the same subject for all.

I have seen reported issues of Google Groupers who reply in a thread,
and when another newsreader replies to a GG'er, Google folds References
headers and it adds tab characters to them. AFAIK, that should never
happen -- it's a bug with Google.

Then when a "good newsreader" unfolds the headers in a reply, it leaves
extra whitespace in the places where the tabs were. Some people have
called this a bug, but IMO, it's not -- it's just GIGO, with the garbage
initiated at GG.

Then when Google parses the header in a further reply, it chokes on the
whitespace characters (which shouldn't be there) in the unfolded header
and creates an even more invalid header, in which most of the
message-ids are gone and the one that remains has no <angled
brackets>.

It's only at that last stage that the newsreader can no longer thread
the messages properly.

So this problem only happens when there are more than one post in the
thread already, then a Google Grouper replies, then a newsreader user
replies to the GGer, then the GGer replies back.

Whew!

Terry R.

 

[Gordon]

The date and time was Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:01:34 PM, and on a
whim, Bill in Co. pounded out on the keyboard:


There is only one thread I see, and the same subject for all.

There's at least two - this one, with this subject line
"What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. SP2 with
limited free disk spaces?"

and one with the subject line of
"What's the best freeware defragger to use in Windows XP Pro. S"

Notice the difference?

 

[Gordon]

Suggest you find the problem instead of blaming Microsoft.

Can't see the OP, but if he's RESPONSIBLE (?) for many machines, surely he
TESTED it first?

 

[Unknown]

In every case, some other non-Microsoft program causes the problem with
installation of SP3.
Virus programs, malware programs, other than Microsoft firewall programs
etc. etc. etc.
SP3 has been installed on literally millions of systems.

 

[Gerry]

Gordon

You can change the subject in a thread. Someone needs to use "New message"
rather "Reply" to create a new thread.

I am changing the subject to demonstrate my point.

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[Unknown]

Your theory is wrong. Do you think the drive 'overruns' the bus??

 

[Bill in Co.]

Gordon

You can change the subject in a thread. Someone needs to use "New message"
rather "Reply" to create a new thread.

I am changing the subject to demonstrate my point.

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Exactly. And there have been several such variations. I think the new OP
(Ant) did it by creating new posts with variations in the spacing in the
subject title.

 

[Bill in Co.]

Defraggler works well.
And also try using just ONE post for the subject line, and not all these
variations in subject spacing, for all these multiple duplicated posts.