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Frequency is dependant upon activities that tend to cause fragmentation..
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Mike Hall
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"Gordon" <gordonbp1@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> Mike Hall (MS-MVP) wrote:
>> NTFS may be able to cope better in a fragged state, but that does not
>> take away from the fact that a drive should be defragged regularly..
>>
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> I'm not saying it shouldn't - what I am saying is that there is no need to
> do it anything like as frequently as was needed with Windows 9x - when I
> was using W98 I used to defrag once a week - now with XP I do it once a
> month, which is perfectly adequate.
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