Vista Defragmenter

[Gordon]

If the computer is turned off before Vista's native defrag
complete its task, what happens?

Nothing AFAIK - it just resumes then next time the machine is switched on
and is idle....

 

[Rick Rogers]

Precisely.

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[Bill Yanaire, ESQ]

Nothing AFAIK - it just resumes then next time the machine is switched
on and is idle....

Except at your house where it works when the computer is OFF.

 

[Bill Yanaire, ESQ]

If there's no progression status how do you KNOW "it takes forever"?
In fact the Vista defragmenter is set by default to work when the
computer is idle so you don't actually need to launch it at all.

See here for more info:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942092

Err - It doesn't err take forever. Err. The Vista defrag Err is set by
default. Err.

 

[Jim]

Hi:

Windows Vista Defragmenter is about the worst that I have ever seen. It
does not show you any progression status and it takes forever.

Does anyone have an alternate free defragmenter and/or suggestion?

Thanks,

ColTom2

Defraggler .

 

[ray]

Hi:

Windows Vista Defragmenter is about the worst that I have ever seen.
It
does not show you any progression status and it takes forever.

Does anyone have an alternate free defragmenter and/or suggestion?

Thanks,

ColTom2

One option - convert to Linux and forget defragmenting. A properly
designed, modern file system should not require constant defragmentaion.

 

[Montague Nathanal Hollingsworth]

One option - convert to Linux and forget defragmenting. A properly
designed, modern file system should not require constant defragmentaion.

Of course you don't need to defrag your Linux system. Since you can't
do any real work, there is no need to defrag.

 

[ray]

Of course that explains why there are dozens of defragmenters for
linux!...LOL!

There are a couple. I've never known anyone to use them.

 

[ray]

Of course you don't need to defrag your Linux system. Since you can't
do any real work, there is no need to defrag.

What an absurd comment. Of course you can do "real work" on Linux.

 

[Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth]

What an absurd comment. Of course you can do "real work" on Linux.

I've never known anyone to do real work on Linux.

 

[ray]

I've never known anyone to do real work on Linux.

Well, meet one. I did scientific software support and development for 30
years for Dept. of Army. Started with IBM/DCS system, moved to Univac,
moved to DEC RSX-11; moved to DEC Ultrix thence to Tru64 Unix on DEC
Alpha and finally RedHat Linux on a DELL dual Xeon. The entire realtime
system at White Sands Missile Range is based on Unix and Linux. The post
flight processing we did (I primarily worked with digital signal
processing of coherant radar signals) was done on Linux. If that ain't
"real work", I don't know what is. The bulk of the internet runs on
Apache on Linux platforms. I happen to know several small businesses
running on Linux. Several major international auto companies do their
development on Linux.

 

[Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth]

Well, meet one. I did scientific software support and development for 30
years for Dept. of Army. Started with IBM/DCS system, moved to Univac,
moved to DEC RSX-11; moved to DEC Ultrix thence to Tru64 Unix on DEC
Alpha and finally RedHat Linux on a DELL dual Xeon. The entire realtime
system at White Sands Missile Range is based on Unix and Linux. The post
flight processing we did (I primarily worked with digital signal
processing of coherant radar signals) was done on Linux. If that ain't
"real work", I don't know what is. The bulk of the internet runs on
Apache on Linux platforms. I happen to know several small businesses
running on Linux. Several major international auto companies do their
development on Linux.

We are not talking specialty applications with the armed forces. Take a
look around at regular businesses and at home users. Almost non-existent.

 

[ray]

We are not talking specialty applications with the armed forces. Take a
look around at regular businesses and at home users. Almost
non-existent.

That's the way out, isn't it? Redefine 'real work' so that nothing I say
fits. Except that you stopped reading too soon.

BTW - if it's 'almost non-exestent' then why are you sweating it?

 

[Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth]

That's the way out, isn't it? Redefine 'real work' so that nothing I say
fits. Except that you stopped reading too soon.

BTW - if it's 'almost non-exestent' then why are you sweating it?

Who said anything about "sweating it"?

I just think that people posting about Ubuntu in the vista forum is a
complete waste of time and effort.

You might as well go to a Ford dealer, talk to people waiting to get
their vehicles serviced and speak to them about discount Chevy parts!

 

[JimF]

What an absurd comment. Of course you can do "real work" on Linux.

I, like many other ppls, do "real work" on my computer (3D modelling). I
use Daz 3D advanced studio, Carrara 7 pro and Vue xStream 7 pro. Could you
please tell me which Linux programs I could use to replace these.

JimF

 

[ray]

Who said anything about "sweating it"?

I just think that people posting about Ubuntu in the vista forum is a
complete waste of time and effort.

Please point out where I mentioned Ubuntu. I did not! Please at least
attempt to keep your posts accurate.

You might as well go to a Ford dealer, talk to people waiting to get
their vehicles serviced and speak to them about discount Chevy parts!

As a matter of fact I recently bought a Chevy program car from the local
Dodge dealer.

 

[ray]

I, like many other ppls, do "real work" on my computer (3D modelling).
I use Daz 3D advanced studio, Carrara 7 pro and Vue xStream 7 pro. Could
you please tell me which Linux programs I could use to replace these.

JimF

Since I'm not 'into' 3D modelling, no I won't. That is outside my area of
expertise. If you're really interested though, you could pose that
question on some of the Linux newsgroups - I would not be surprised to
find roughly equivalent Open Source Linux programs to do that work.

 

[JamesJ]

Defrag diagnostics tells me I don't need to defrag but it takes over 2 hours
to complete the task
when I tell it to defrag anyway??!

 

[Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth]

Please point out where I mentioned Ubuntu. I did not! Please at least
attempt to keep your posts accurate.

Ubuntu/Linux - Same thing.

As a matter of fact I recently bought a Chevy program car from the local
Dodge dealer.

Not what I was talking about. Re-read my statement.

 

[Manfred Nathanal Hollingsworth]

Since I'm not 'into' 3D modelling, no I won't. That is outside my area of
expertise. If you're really interested though, you could pose that
question on some of the Linux newsgroups - I would not be surprised to
find roughly equivalent Open Source Linux programs to do that work.

So what Linux program/programs can do with ADOBE Photoshop does? I am
not talking about a stripped down EL_CHEAPO Free version, tell me what
has the same features? I'll bet you can't.