Noel B, Running de-frag in the background is probably okay, but never attempt to defrag a drive you're actually using. If you do, defrag will stop dead and start from the beginning again without even warning you. It is a Microsoft product remember. That's why it's essential that your virus checker is turned off. I've heard so many stories that it took xxx days to defrag a disk, when it should only take an hour or so. It's because the virus checker sees files being moved, checks to see what's going on and bang! Defrag says someone just used the disk so I have to start all over again!
Also, defragmenting is not the end all. As a computer professional, I do it about once a year, or when I'm about to install a big (200 meg plus) file, which is rare. The best housekeeping you can do is to run CCleaner (disk and registry options) every couple of days so so and Spybot once a week.
The 20 meg world folder sounds huge. Hopefully the contents are all in sub-folders otherwise it could slow everything down a bit.
John
Also, defragmenting is not the end all. As a computer professional, I do it about once a year, or when I'm about to install a big (200 meg plus) file, which is rare. The best housekeeping you can do is to run CCleaner (disk and registry options) every couple of days so so and Spybot once a week.
The 20 meg world folder sounds huge. Hopefully the contents are all in sub-folders otherwise it could slow everything down a bit.
John
