Microsoft has posted an article on speeding up your PC. I don't know how good the defrag and detect and repair disk errors are in XP. I've heard bad things. Anyone have experience with either of these?

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Jason N. Gaylord
JasonGaylord.com

I continue to feel that Norton Utilities' Speeddisk is way superior - offers you many more defragmentation options like sortin and file/folder positioning. Unfortunately, the supplementary disk utility i used, Acronis Disk Director 9.0, uses Windows' defragmentor in the back-end.

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The melody of logic will always play out the truth. ~ Narumi Ayumu, Spiral

I am not a big fan of Microsoft's built-in defragmenting utility, it's slower than slow.  On my desktop machine and on my web server, I have Diskeeper 8.x installed.  It works better, and the "set it and forget it" feature alone is worth the price of admission, especially on my web server.  Nothing like the "smart scheduling" feature, especially on a server.  Also, it defragments your volume(s) far more efficiently than the built-in Microsoft provided utility does.  Hmmm, I wonder what version 9.x offers?  ;-)

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www.bradenmikael.com
Cry Havoc! And Let Slip The Dogs Of War!

I wouldn't defrag a PC at all anymore. The OS is much more stable than it used to be and defrag seems to cause more harm than good.

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Jason N. Gaylord
JasonGaylord.com

Even on servers? I found that on some departmental servers I was checking, the administrators of those machines have no defragmented the volumes for literally months and months.  After a full defragmentation (which took hours), performance seemed to increase to me.  *shrugs*

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www.bradenmikael.com
Cry Havoc! And Let Slip The Dogs Of War!

Anymore, I try to touch all 15 of our servers once every 1 to 2 years. There is a good chance that updates you rolled out to the servers have been combined in service packs and it keeps the servers nice and fresh. We have a spare machine on hand that we use to do the rollover. Its really not too bad.

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Jason N. Gaylord
JasonGaylord.com