Talk:Defrag

Thinking this entire article can be scrapped and "defrag" redirected to "defragmentation." Historical trivia can be incorporated into that article if needed. Both articles are hideous incomplete, ex: neither article mentions Diskkeeper which was popular NT 4.0 era (and current?) defrag utility. Once windows started it's auto-optimization, defrag has been less and less prominent in computer services. Used to be a default lazy tech answer (ie: did you reboot? relog? re-install? defrag?) but it's rarely justified today.

As of today, Diskkeeper was mentioned in the defragment article. In fact, Diskkeeper has a full and well written article of its own. This information is of historic interest, and the tools mentioned herein are still in use by a sizable portion of the global population. Google for OS market share, and you'll find that there is still a considerable pre-NT kernel, FAT-only install base. 159.218.12.161 16:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

In my opinion, this article contained how-to content when listed things as .. "Move the files blah blah blah etc", altho being introduced in another way. Styled the list in this format: "the used methods include -- moving the files, ..."

I think it's more acceptable now than it was. Santtus 09:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

NT didn't offer a defragmenter because they were strongly pushing use of NTFS at that time, which isn't as vulnerable to fragmentation. --Improv 15:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)Reply

# Clustering files around the directory area.

1. Moving infrequently used files further from the directory area.
2. Obeying a user provided table of file descriptions to emphasize or ignore.
3. Making files contigious so that they can be read without unnecessary seeking (defragmentation).

I changed the last bit in here to read

# Making files contiguous so that they can be read without unnecessary seeking (defragmentation).

because contiguous was spelled wrong (correct me if im wrong).