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Gordon
EndUser said: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....
EndUser said:If the computer is turned off before Vista's native defrag
complete its task, what happens?
Gordon said:Nothing AFAIK - it just resumes then next time the machine is switched
on and is idle....
Gordon said: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
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
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
ray said:One option - convert to Linux and forget defragmenting. A properly
designed, modern file system should not require constant defragmentaion.
Of course that explains why there are dozens of defragmenters for
linux!...LOL!
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 said: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 said: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 said: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?
ray said:What an absurd comment. Of course you can do "real work" on Linux.
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!
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 said:Please point out where I mentioned Ubuntu. I did not! Please at least
attempt to keep your posts accurate.
As a matter of fact I recently bought a Chevy program car from the local
Dodge dealer.
ray said: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.