Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 09:12 AM 2/16/2012, Rugxulo wrote: >You'd think DOS (direct hardware access) would be an ideal environment >for defragging, and certainly DJGPP should be robust enough, in >theory, but I guess some people prefer to do it in the background of >Windows itself while running other stuff. Remember Wi

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > >> P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc) ... >> (Yeah, I know, others probably independently discovered it all too.) > > Nope: See http://www.diskeeper.com/fragbook/chapter6

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > P.S. Who invented defrag? I want to say Norton (etc), but that's > probably wrong (though MS did license it from them, right?). John > Socha (of NC fame) basically invented the screensaver, Peter Norton > basically invented undelete, so that's wha

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? > > http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html Interesting. Thanks for the link, though I think you're being *highly* optimistic in thinking that anyone will even look at it, much l

Re: [Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-15 Thread Single Stage to Orbit
On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 23:28 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? > > http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html > > It was one of the project of the month candidates. > UltraDefrag defrags FAT, NTFS, exFAT, including > registries and swap/pagefiles

[Freedos-user] possibly interesting free open software ultradefrag

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, has any of you tested UltraDefrag for Windows? http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html It was one of the project of the month candidates. UltraDefrag defrags FAT, NTFS, exFAT, including registries and swap/pagefiles and MFT structures. Comes with a GUI and a command line version. M