I agree with Richard. Windows defrag does an adequate job for me. I've run
a couple of other programs, and they indicate to me that I don't need to run
them. But, as to "knowing", how do we really know that PerfectDisk, et al
are telling us the truth? If you pay for a program, is it more accurate, or
more honest? I've always suspected that many programs, like
anti-spyware,etc. always find "something", to justify us using them.

As long as I'm satisfied with the disk performance, I'm fine with MS Defrag.

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"SG" <sorry@nomail.com> wrote in message
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> Richard,
>
> That's your opinion and you are for sure entitled to it, however, that's
> your view and myself and others disagree. It's not a matter of watching
> little colors move around nor do I think anyone gets turned on by it,
> that's a pretty silly comment. If YOU trust a program such as MS Defrag to
> run in the background never knowing how or even if it's doing an adequate
> job then by all means go for it, I don't. I ran MS Defrag for awhile until
> I tried a few 3rd party Defrag programs and the one I settled with was
> PerfectDisk 2008. You made the comment in another post "At least the job
> gets done" are you sure? and if it does to what degree does the job get
> done? nothing to see, so how does one know? If I want a program to run
> I'll be the one to decide what and when it runs, not MS.
>
>
> --
> All the best,
> SG
>
> Is your computer system ready for Vista?
> https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uxvrzdqqIHA.2208@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> There is no waiting. If you want to shut down your computer - go ahead
>> and do it. The defragmenting will continue when you next boot the
>> computer.
>>
>> Again, unless a person is anal and gets turned on by watching little
>> colors move around there is no reason to have a display - as long as the
>> job gets done.
>>
>> But, some people like to watch grass grow and paint dry also!
>>
>>
>> "aaalp" <guest@unknown-email.com> wrote in message
>> news:de427074d8ecebd02a5c75f98e75c38f@nntp-gateway.com...
>>>
>>> Markus Eßmayr;686112 Wrote:
>>>> Hello to the defragmentation-tool-developer-team,
>>>>
>>>> please please add some progress information to the tool.
>>>> Thanks very much!
>>>>
>>>> Max
>>> I'd like to see the progress like I could see it in XP as well. Another
>>> minus point from me to Vista as there is NO NEED AT ALL to make the
>>> progress bar disappear. I wanna see how far the process has come and how
>>> much more there is to wait. I don't like to run things in the background
>>> at all.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> aaalp
>>
>