Hilmar,

>>I think it would also make a HUGE difference if more and more people started TELLING people (anyone, but most especially MS and software houses that write related HD utilities) that fragmentation is very helpful for some applications - especially fast response situations! The axiom that fragmentation is universally bad needs to be challenged at every opportunity. It is that, more than anything else in my opinion, that holds software designers back from doing things WITH fragmentation rather than against fragmentation.
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>Windows 98 default fragmentation is supposed to arrange files in the order they are accessed. In other words, it may deliberately fragment a file, because the file is not accessed sequentially.

I *suspect* that that feature may still be operational in later versions, but I **think** that it is limited to EXE (and maybe DLL) files, kinda like a most recently used list.

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>I think some background process does the required analysis, while the files are being accessed.

I do too, but that's also why I think its limited to EXEs.

cheers


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>I don't know about other versions of Windows.
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>I never use this; it takes much too long. I change the defragmentation to the second option, which is very similar to the option available in Windows 95.
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>Hilmar.