I remember when I first started playing with computers and you didn’t have to worry about viruses, spyware and adware, the only problems were the 640k Ram and 4 Megs of memory. I was reminded of these times reading Jason Powells post Large Scale Defrag … how? Part of that article is below:
Just got my Dec issue of WindowsITPro mag today (great mag btw). In it is an eye opening article on the performance degradation that can occur by letting your disks fragment. The article is sponsored by Diskeeper, but the dude who wrote it is not employeed by Diskeeper. If you didn’t already know…the Defrag tool in Windows is a scaled down version of Diskeeper…wonder how much Bill paid to get that in every copy of Windows?
I remember when your computer got slow you only had to run a defrag and typically you would back up to speed in no time. I remember being able to schedule your defrag and disk cleanup in the scheduled tasks and everything being taken care of. I read Jason’s post and figured I’d be able to find the same automation for our current computers, no such luck. I looked around for some open source programs or scripts but nothing seemed to work. Finally I found the script that analyzes how many volumes you have and the defrag need and then runs the defrag, and best of all it can then set to run as desired with Scheduled Tasks. In case you were wondering you can download the one that fits your needs from Compu-Docs on their Defragmenter Scripts page.
I just saw a link to your blog on Jim’s (churchtech matters) blog. Jim has worked with me at my website. When you have time, come take a look. I could use you in the community.
This article is the type of advice that churches need to get a hold of. This saves them money and helps them meet their technology needs.