On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:47:54 -0800, jps wrote:



You must have a very small number of apps. Defragging can be done
while sleeping on an XP or earlier machine. Vista and 7 take care of
it themselves.

Haven't done that in a long time with my XP machines.
In the pre-XP days I would do a backup to tape, then restore instead
of defragging.
The tape was written and restored/reindexed with data contiguous and
ran in about 1/3 the time of a defrag.
I restore from image occasionally now, and I'm not sure if Ghost
re-indexes and shuffles the data back on the tracks more efficiently
than what they were. Might, since the restore is always considerably
faster than making the image.
Defrag head seeking is inefficient as hell.

--Vic