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Name: tmg
Date: December 14, 2003 at 13:33:10 Pacific
OS: win 98se
CPU/Ram: 32 meg, 166mhz, AMD
Comment:

just curious, not really satisfied with the defrag in windows are there any other rated defrag utilities out there?



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Response Number 1
Name: epp_b
Date: December 14, 2003 at 14:11:26 Pacific
Reply:

There are lots of other defrag utilities out there that are far better than Windoze defragmenter...

Diskeeper http://www.executive.com
Norton Utilities and SystemWorks come with SpeedDisk http://www.symantec.com/sabu/sysworks/basic/
http://www.symantec.com/nu/nu_mac/
Google search on "defragmenter"


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Response Number 2
Name: The Count
Date: December 14, 2003 at 15:32:01 Pacific
Reply:

Hi tmg, epp_b, hi everyone

M$ occasionally does ship something descent with their OS's. The trick is to find it. :-)

Win98 Defrag Problems
(http://www.mesich.com/defrag.html)

Greetz from The Netherlands,
The Count, Co-webmaster of mesich.com


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Response Number 3
Name: Bob
Date: December 14, 2003 at 15:54:56 Pacific
Reply:

Installing the Windows ME Utility on Windows 98 Systems

i) Some users report a significant reduction in the time it takes to defrag a drive with the substitution of the Windows ME defrag.exe. The algoritum used in the ME version, allows for defragging without ending all running tasks. Naturally, your results may vary.

ii) The file you have downloaded is now named "newdefrag.exe" .

iii) Copy or Move the file "newdefrag" to the Windows directory. ie: "C:\Windows".

iv) Find your existing "defrag.exe" file in the same directory. ie: "C:\Windows".

v) Rename (Select > Right Click > Rename) your existing "defrag.exe" to
"defragold.exe", or any name you prefer.

vi) Finally, Rename "newdefrag.exe" to "defrag.exe".

vii) That's it. Enjoy.


The Windows ME "defrag.exe" file's version number is 4.90.3000,
and is about 209 kb in size.


Renovator
www.lurkhere.com


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Response Number 4
Name: Bob
Date: December 14, 2003 at 16:07:38 Pacific
Reply:

Also from here , it works Grrreat!!
http://www.wilders.org/downloads.htm


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Response Number 5
Name: mesich
Date: December 14, 2003 at 17:52:45 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Tmg, epp_b, The Count, Bob, hello everyone,

The install.bat file included in the download from the link given by The Count will perform all of those task for you.

Just click on install and your current version will be renamed to defrag.old and the new defrag.exe will be placed in the Windows directory.

If for some reason you wish to return to the original it comes with an unistall.bat file also that will reverse the changes.

Best Regards,
Mesich



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Response Number 6
Name: tmg
Date: December 15, 2003 at 04:37:22 Pacific
Reply:

thanks guys, will get back to you once I've gone through the blurb.


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