Thanks Thomas, looks very interesting indeed!

I'm trying the defrag by name on my data drive right now, as a first go-round.

It sure is nice to have options for defragging. I have the impression that the standard defragger simpy does it by first-fragmented-to-first-free, or maybe even some simple algorithm to have itself run as fast as possible.

This surely is an area where VISTA could make huge improvements with virtually no user impact, by having some kind of smart allocation of file extensions and carefully sprinkling free areas for that purpose. Some user options to control that kind of stuff would be even better.

cheers


>Jim
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>>Do you use a utility other than MS' standard defragment program?
>Try OODefrag with resorting either on age or name...
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>regards
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>thomas