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The Sunday 2008-02-17 at 18:58 -0800, Jerry Houston wrote:

> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> The question for XP admins is if that task is really worthwhile; I
>> mean, if having a computer off-line for several hours with heavy disk
>> activity and wear, as compared to been perhaps a small percent slower
>> in normal use.
>
> I suspect that the aforementioned "several hours" is only with a very
> slow CPU.  I've never timed mine, but I'd be surprised if it ever took
> as much as an hour.

Not as much cpu as disk and buses throughput, and memory for write cache.


> The questions does still remain, "Does it really make any difference"?
> I'd guess that the vendors who sell the utilities, and the OEMs who
> include them, and the computer magazines that evaluate them wouldn't
> waste their time if there was no need.

I did unfragment when I used dos or windows, and the difference was not 
easily noticeable.

- -- 
Cheers,
        Carlos E. R.

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