Seriously. I don't know what it is about it, but I find it very easy to just sit and watch Defraggler progress through my drives cleaning them, moving red blocks together to make them blue again. It's entrancing.
HAHAHAHAHAHA...doing that right now since I had a problem with Raxco just hanging at 1% optimization for 12hrs. Defraggler is at 22% right now after about 3hrs.
My drives are never seriously fragmented so a defrag doesn't usually take very long, so I more often than not watch the process as well.
As a pastime it doesn't beat reading old gravestones, but it's up there.
I am guilty of watching my disks defrag on multiple occasions.
As a pastime it doesn't beat reading old gravestones, but it's up there.
Watching a defrag is far less exciting because you don't get poked in the back by a bony skeleton hand.
What if you place the defragging computer on top of a gravestone?
I find it amusing too!
The last time I sat and watched a defrag tool was back on Win98 since it could stop and complain for stupid reasons, then need another ScanDisk ran for no obvious reason. Now via a batch script my defrag tool runs, and then have the computer automatically shut off, or log off.
Do you remember the error you got with 98, something to with the defrag never completing but just restarting over and over, then after restarting 10 times it would ask if you wanted to restart the defrag again ?
If I remember right you had to set your screen saver to none for it to complete.
I find it amusing too. Sometimes I watch the progress. My work colleague hates that LOL.
Drifting a bit here -- One time I had a good laugh with a Win98SE defrag by Windows, watching it continually move the same ~40 blocks back and forth endlessly in a confined area at the end of the disk, until I stopped and restarted it.
btw, I'm trying to remember what firm made that software. Was it Seagate? If anyone here still has a running Win98 would they check it for me, please?
Do you remember the error you got with 98, something to with the defrag never completing but just restarting over and over
I dealt with that allot, and along with screensavers running the resident antivirus would just about always cause it to go into an endless loop of restarting.
Yuck D:
Drifting a bit here -- One time I had a good laugh with a Win98SE defrag by Windows, watching it continually move the same ~40 blocks back and forth endlessly in a confined area at the end of the disk, until I stopped and restarted it.
btw, I'm trying to remember what firm made that software. Was it Seagate? If anyone here still has a running Win98 would they check it for me, please?
I think it was Norton (similar to Norton's Speedisk) but I may be mistaken.
Do you remember the error you got with 98, something to with the defrag never completing but just restarting over and over, then after restarting 10 times it would ask if you wanted to restart the defrag again ?
If I remember right you had to set your screen saver to none for it to complete.
Yes, I remember.
Had to have 0 processes running, or it would start all over again.
Using Windows ME defrag for Windows 98 pretty much fixed this, I believe.
The one thing ME did right !