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January 11, 2005
Performance
Over the weekend whilst I was back in the UK some friends and I decided to have a lan party, I know I know I'm a child at heart :)
Anyway my brother and also a good friend Martin were both complaining about their computers performance. 'When was the last time you defragged it' I asked "What's that" they both said.
Now these machines are over 2 years old! So I dreaded what I might find. I quickly installed Diskeeper And whilst it was running on both machines I nipped on the net and downloaded Webroots Spysweeper for them both.
To my horror Martins machine was 79% fragged and my brother's not far behind at 68%. I set Diskeeper to clean them up and also to defrag their MFT's too. Diskeeper actually had to run 4 times on each machine to clean them up and then I set about them with Webroot.
Over 3 hours and 1700 traces of adware later they were both very happy with their performace increases :)
The moral is that just like a car you get the best from your PC by Keeping on top of its maintenance.
Mark...
Posted by Mark at January 11, 2005 11:05 AM
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I was scared when I read your post. I`m installing Diskeeper now. I wonder what I`ll find.
Good call
Simon
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Simon
I amazed how many people use a computer daily and yet dont defrag once a month and run a spy sweeper like webroots! Not to mention have a personal firewall running whilst online. I think its because a lot of users like Martin and my brother can boot it up, install and run a game, perhaps even surf the net a bit, but thats about it!
I reccomend Diskeeper because it's just so much more efficient than windows in built defragger... Hope you dont get to scared Simon :) Let us know what you find :)
Mark...
Posted by: simon at January 11, 2005 11:36 AM
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