Thread: Defrag: A myth?
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Old 2007-08-12, 12:36   Link #19
grey_moon
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Originally Posted by Jinto Lin View Post
Strange can't one access the defragmenter by default with the drive properties?
"The first defragmentation support for Windows NT was introduced by Executive Software. Their Diskeeper product was initially released for Windows NT 3.51, and because the NTFS and FAT file systems for NT 3.51 have no native functions that provide for cluster movement, Executive Software was forced to purchase a source license for NT and to create and ship custom versions of NTFS and FAT, as well as NT itself, along with their defragmentation code."

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sys...agmenting.mspx

Bit of history hee hee, I still remember when we first automatically rolled it out on over 50 machines using drive image and a sidchanger script. We were so proud of ourselves
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