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About 1 1/2 yr. ago I posted results from Maximum
PC Mag tests/evals on Images/Defrag,etc. ( if interested
you can check their archieves).
Results ( of top 5 softwares ) they rated PowerQuest's
Drive Image easiest & Norton's Ghost, along with PQ as Best
performance ( I think BiLow has since posted another) for saving
a partition to an Image.
They stated that the most heavily fragmented portion of the HD
was "swap/paging " file. Norton adds that the Registry file also gets
fragmented. Max PC Mag recommendation: Make your first partition
your swap/boot section. Norton says Windows does poor job of
managing swap/paging, so manually minimize it. Thumb Rule: Min =
amount of Ram + 1 & Max 2xRam +1 ( you have to set both). Max PC
Mag said same. - - Max PC rated Norton's defrag ( Speed Disk ) the
Best, primarily because it was written in "Assembly" and it "puts the
swap/page file at the Start of the Disk " - - faster access, so faster ops.
Norton's Speed Disk will auto defrag the C: drive and manually you must
select other partitions. I set nightly the swap and on week-ends do the
remainder. My C is small, just swap and boot size.
Yesterday I was in Best Buy and noticed that they had individual disks
of Norton ( Symantec - - owned by I believe, by IBM) on the small CD rack
for between $10.99 and I recall Individual firewall for $29.99 - - no
manuals,
just the CD but Help is on the CD & you can download manuals. YOU can
also Download a 30 day trial from Symantec - - from time to time,same with
Power Quest.
Of worth: These are 30 day trial of FREE. Put a www. before each &
.com after each.
docmemory ( A Quick Test of Memory & Burn In & more elaborate tests )
memturbo ( a Defrag of Memory )
A Must & free & very good documentation: jv16, an Italian man's software
called RegCleaner. Check it out - - makes $MS look sick.
Usual disclaimer & I don't even own stock in any of the above.
Trade Well & Smart,
John
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