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| 385307 | 2005-09-02 01:59:00 | Re NZPCWorld Sept 2005 p92 - response from PCWorld staff to query on regular PC maintenance. I was rather surprised to see no comment about potential interference to Defrag and particularly ScanDisk [chkdsk] by other programmes which may be running in the background such as Antivirus, Screensaver, Power Management &c. Normally these need to be isolated before the maintenance programmes are run, which may well cause problems with running them under Scheduled Tasks. Your comment would be appreciated. Roy Northey |
roygretn (989) | ||
| 385308 | 2005-09-02 02:20:00 | I agree, which is why I never use Task Scheduler but run the maintenance myself in Safe Mode. Something I learnt early on mostly from infor rec'd here at Pressf1. :) | mark c (247) | ||
| 385309 | 2005-09-02 02:32:00 | Yep, you are correct. I would reccommend Nortons Speed Disk Doctor over Windows built in Defrag and scandisk. I have seen Windows XP defrag leave high fragmentation of 20% or more after a successful defrag for some odd reason, which I still don't know the answer to. Nortons speeddisk will reduce this to 1-2% always, which is what you would expect. BTW I hate Nortons Antivirus and Security centre because of there performance hits on PC's but these other apps are great, just incase you think I might be a Nortons fanboy. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 385310 | 2005-09-02 05:43:00 | Eww task scheduler. But I would certainly reccomend cutting off net access and disabling realtime virus protection before a defrag. | apparition (3207) | ||
| 385311 | 2005-09-02 06:03:00 | Yep, you are correct. I would reccommend Nortons Speed Disk Doctor over Windows built in Defrag and scandisk. I have seen Windows XP defrag leave high fragmentation of 20% or more after a successful defrag for some odd reason, which I still don't know the answer to. Nortons speeddisk will reduce this to 1-2% always, which is what you would expect. BTW I hate Nortons Antivirus and Security centre because of there performance hits on PC's but these other apps are great, just incase you think I might be a Nortons fanboy.I would rather throw my computer out, than taint it with any Nortons app other than Ghost. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 385312 | 2005-09-02 07:33:00 | Well I'd agree with that requarding norton antivirus as it's worse than no antivirus because it gives you the false impression that you're being protected from viruses. | apparition (3207) | ||
| 385313 | 2005-09-02 15:56:00 | Agree with running defrag in safe mode, i have faced problems with the defragmenter hanging a little while into defrag. Also as it was too much of a bother to run it manually, i shifted to a third party tool which works just fine. I have set it to defrag once a week, it doesnt take a long time either. | otter (8288) | ||
| 385314 | 2005-09-02 17:35:00 | Agree with running defrag in safe modeI found that was the only way to do it in W98. But strangely I've never had a problem running it in normal mode with XP (Pro SP1). (Maybe coz XP is just the world's best OS that ever was or ever will be? :D ) |
Greg (193) | ||
| 385315 | 2005-09-03 02:18:00 | Sorry could not respond earlier Thanks to all who have. It seems generally accepted that Defrag/Scandisk [also Norton equivalents] do not readily accept interruptions. I have never found it necessary to use SafeMode, provided I have disabled potential interfering problems. From time to time I read of recommendations to use Task Scheduler for Defrag/Scandisk but without warnings. I was intrigued by response from “otter i shifted to a third party tool which works just fine” Has someone at last written a program able to shut down potential interfering programs before running Defrag/Scandisk ? More information would be appreciated. roygretn |
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