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>The built-in defragmenter did nothing to improve things. There was NO built-in defragmenter in Windows NT 4.0, it came first in Windows 2000.
by jaclaz 9y ago
>The built-in defragmenter did nothing to improve things.
There was NO built-in defragmenter in Windows NT 4.0, it came first in Windows 2000.
- abdulhaq 9y agoJerry pournelle used to rave about the golden bow defragger
- jaclaz 9y ago>Jerry pournelle used to rave about the golden bow defragger Yes, that would be (for those not familiar with the matter) Vopt, the article on Wikipedia quotes Jerry Pournelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vopt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vopt Now (since early 2016) "abandonware/free" for all: https://web.archive.org/web/20160816083906/http://www.goldenbow.com/nudownload.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20160816083906/http://www.golden...
- Rhinobird 9y agoThat would explain why it didn't do anything.
- thought_alarm 9y agoDiskeeper Lite was what I had in mind. It didn't defrag the directories.
- jaclaz 9y ago>Diskeeper Lite was what I had in mind. It didn't defrag the directories. And in any case was not built-in. In Windows 2000 the built-in defragger was actually a "stripped down" version of Diskkeeper, maybe you are confusing NT 4.0 with Windows 2000? Some references here: https://msfn.org/board/topic/131017-msoft-uses-diskeeper-as-their-defrag-tool-trying-to-resize-partition/?do=findComment&comment=841932 https://msfn.org/board/topic/131017-msoft-uses-diskeeper-as-...