DoyceJ
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Not sure if this has been posted before but I thought it sounded cool.
If you are having problems with too many programs running when you defrag, try this. On your Win98 CD, there is a folder called <cd>:\tools\mtsutil. In this folder is a file called defrag.inf. Right click on it, and choose Install. Now, the next time you reboot, defrag will run before *anything* else is loaded - even Windows itself. This is great for when you have programs in the background that keep resetting defrag by writing to the disk. Another way to gain a little hard drive performance is to delete your swap file (c:\windows\win386.swp) and then run defrag. You can't hurt anything by deleting this file - it always gets recreated on startup. Sometimes the swap file gets scattered on the drive, and even when you defrag, since it is so spread out (uhh...
, your drive is still, in essence, fragmented. The ideal scenario would be to run defrag.inf, boot to DOS, delete win386.swp, then boot back into Windows and let defrag do it's thing... I have seen very real performance gains in games from defragging regularly, so it is well worth the attention...
If you are having problems with too many programs running when you defrag, try this. On your Win98 CD, there is a folder called <cd>:\tools\mtsutil. In this folder is a file called defrag.inf. Right click on it, and choose Install. Now, the next time you reboot, defrag will run before *anything* else is loaded - even Windows itself. This is great for when you have programs in the background that keep resetting defrag by writing to the disk. Another way to gain a little hard drive performance is to delete your swap file (c:\windows\win386.swp) and then run defrag. You can't hurt anything by deleting this file - it always gets recreated on startup. Sometimes the swap file gets scattered on the drive, and even when you defrag, since it is so spread out (uhh...