How long they usually take?

Ive NEVER bothered to do it before (tho HD is about 5years old) and it takes an age, like fookin days Prob been on for about 12hrs on and off (thankfully it pretty much carries on from where it left off last time) and its still not 50% thru

Is there any point to it anyhow? Does it free up any HD space? I could do with that...

 

xp version is quicker than most but got 2 hdrives in mine
1 40gig
1 120gig
plus turn off all background noise via
alt+ctrl+delete close down all anti virus stuff msn and shit ya dont need

 

Steve imagine you have a CD collection with say 5000 in total. All in alphabetical order. You then spend 5 years playing them and never put them back in the correct place! As time goes on it becomes increasingly difficult to find the title you are looking for and how long do you think it would take you to sort it! A defrag does just that with your computers files etc..........

 

Probably will take a fair while if u havent done it before. After youve done it once it should speed up considerably as first time round the HD will be very fragmented. As the name suggests it defragments the HD, therefore sorting the files on the HD in order to make it run more efficiently/quickly. Also worth doing a "Disk Cleanup" if you surf the net alot as this gets rid of alot of temporary files that arent really needed increasing free space on ur HD and again making it more efficient. Hopefully thats about the size of it. I stand to be corrected.

 

Make sure the screensaver is switched off otherwise it stops

 

leave it on overnight jus like u do porn BEST to do it on safe mode, whilst pc is booting up tap F4 or F5 i forget now dont be alarmed when eveythings twice the size too

 

Every 15mins or so it says its restarting due to activity on the HD, but ive fookin shut down everything barring stuff that makes the PC crash when i do it
That dont seem to significantly slow it down anyohw as pretty much restarts where it left off.

Whats the minimum amount (and what are they) of progs that need to be showing in the close program window for windows to keep operating?

 

BETTER TO ASK WOT WINDOWS version ya using
how bigs your hard drive
loads of games on it films or files

 

Probably best to do it when your not connected to the internet Steve!

 

windows 98
40gig hd
99% full, almost all car stuff and porn

no, never do it when connecterd to net, literally just leave it on with as much as i can shut down and it not in use

 

have you got a screen saver as smitt said and you carnt play online while it working

 

it wont really drop your hd full effect just sorts the files together so it finds them quicker

 

you can get a 120 gig hd for about Ł70 ish now fast one just find a plug and play one not sure about 98 though is it se version u really need to upgrade
i work for a multi million ŁŁ company and they use navis for the machines
windows 95 laffed my cock off at the boss they payed ŁŁŁŁŁ
for the system crashes all the time "the road angel in my car is more accurate "
FAT CATS KNOW BETTER

 

Steve I didn't do mine for 2 years (and I use the computer a lot!!!)

At first the hard drive overheated after about an hour of defragmenting it was that bad, now have a hard drive cooler (looks like one of them gay anodised halfords oil filter coolers ) and it took about 5 hours or something stupid like that. Computer was like new after though - it is well worth it! Makes it proper quick. Now run it every week to keep on top of it!