Optimize HD When Idle

[Rockinghorse Winner]

One of the settings with TweakUI, is Optimize Hard Drive When Idle.
Is this the same as Defragment? If I use a Defragmenter on a regular schedule,
can I safely turn off this option?



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[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You may wish to read the following article:

Windows XP's Built-In Optimization
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1155656,00.asp

You may turn-off 'Optimize Hard Drive' if you wish.

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| One of the settings with TweakUI, is Optimize Hard Drive When Idle.
| Is this the same as Defragment? If I use a Defragmenter on a regular schedule,
| can I safely turn off this option?

 

[John L. Wilkerson Jr.]

You may turn-off 'Optimize Hard Drive' if you wish.

How can you turn off this optmization? I've seen it no where on my system
or on tweak-ui.

 

[Rockinghorse Winner]

It has been reported by the Department of Homeland Security that on Thu, 30
Sep 2004 23:30:17 GMT, "John L. Wilkerson Jr."

How can you turn off this optmization? I've seen it no where on my system
or on tweak-ui.

It's in Tweakui, under General, toward the bottom of the list. : )

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"Take a look behind you - upstream - now you begin to
recognize this country, don't you?"

"Yes, I do recognize it now. It is the most wonderful
thing I ever heard of; by a long shot the most
wonderful - and unexpected."

Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi

 

[Rockinghorse Winner]

It has been reported by the Department of Homeland Security that on Thu, 30

Windows XP's Built-In Optimization
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1155656,00.asp

You may turn-off 'Optimize Hard Drive' if you wish.

Thanks for the info!

"I remember how, at one battle in Gaul, members of
the Tenth Legion banged the bejesus out of the enemy with their shields
when their swords were gone."
-James Thurber









CUL8R



R*Horse



www.sonic.net/~lkokot



"Take a look behind you - upstream - now you begin to
recognize this country, don't you?"

"Yes, I do recognize it now. It is the most wonderful
thing I ever heard of; by a long shot the most
wonderful - and unexpected."

Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi

 

[Alex Nichol]

One of the settings with TweakUI, is Optimize Hard Drive When Idle.
Is this the same as Defragment? If I use a Defragmenter on a regular schedule,
can I safely turn off this option?

No don't. It is the intermediate 'Prefetch' optimisation, that uses the
details of pattern of loading of files when you start a program to
optimise the layout of just those files so as to speed up load
subsequently. It makes an appreciable difference, but is not quite the
same as defrag. It will come in automatically every three days in a
period when nothing is going on