dcdc
March 2nd, 2007, 06:08 PM
This was a good tip in PC World, Mar. 2007: "Open applications don't get defragged, so close them before you begin. Ditto for tools that reside in the system tray."
I had never really thought about this, but it makes sense. I have several applications that I use for active protection and that load at startup, so apparently they have never been defragged after all the updates I have run. I don't know if sweeps will run noticeably faster after defragging them, but it can't hurt.
It's a different story for on-demand applications. Presumably they get defragged every time I run the XP disc defragger.
Of course, you want to make sure you restore/open/reactivate these antimalware apps before you go back on the web.
There are no doubt better defraggers out there that the XP one (the above mentioned article recommends Golden Bow Systems' Vopt 8 ), but I guess the Windows one is good enough for my system, which lacks partitions and so on.
I had never really thought about this, but it makes sense. I have several applications that I use for active protection and that load at startup, so apparently they have never been defragged after all the updates I have run. I don't know if sweeps will run noticeably faster after defragging them, but it can't hurt.
It's a different story for on-demand applications. Presumably they get defragged every time I run the XP disc defragger.
Of course, you want to make sure you restore/open/reactivate these antimalware apps before you go back on the web.
There are no doubt better defraggers out there that the XP one (the above mentioned article recommends Golden Bow Systems' Vopt 8 ), but I guess the Windows one is good enough for my system, which lacks partitions and so on.