Toxic

The reality is that there are so many scenarios that what suits one
situation does not have a significant impact in another. Defragmenting
should not be taken in isolation. You should always run Disk CleanUp (
or cCleaner ) before running Disk Defragmenter. The combination of the
two will have an an impact but it will differ from one system to
another.

A point worth making is that a system which has limited RAM and CPU
capacity may need all the help it can get to achieve an acceptable level
of performance. The percentage improvement will be greater on computers
in this situation than those with plenty of RAM and CPU capacity. You
may also get differing results as between desktops and laptops given
that most laptops have hard disks with slower rotational speeds.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Toxic wrote:
> I have users that frequently request defrags on their XP pc's.
> What I want to know is how do you prove that it helps in performance
> or in my opinion dose snot help unless the drive is badly
> defragmented. Like a ps that is 2 years old or a drive that is over
> 60% full.
>
> Is there a way to provide proof that it helps in performance.