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Once I had Norton Utilities, that had that agent keeping disks clean and tidy, but it was just anohter resident application eating processor power. Why there's not already a screensaver that would, beside showing some graphics, defragment your drive while you're away and when you come back, your computer
is a bit faster and cleaner than before.
Manual Defragmentation
http://www.halfbake...l_20Defragmentation
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What if some application is using the hard drive while you're away? |
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//What if some application ...// Then it wouldn't defragment. My PC is idling along often enough to do all kinds of useful maintenance instead of searching for signs of aliens in intergalactic radio broadcasts. |
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Also baked by Raxco PerfectDisk. |
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It's a shame that that expensive piece of software doesn't have that option. |
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[kebecker] if you want to be more directly useful with your spare CPU cycles, download "folding@home", a spare-cylce program that simulates protein synthesis--useful for medical research. |
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