My FS is wayyyy too slow!!!!!!!!

[Andrew Parkinson]

I see you have been there. I like the shields up test and the leak test-very useful! Have a good day, Tipster-I'm assuming you live in the U.K.? Whilst is a word you used and it seems to me that the English use this a lot. Either way, English or not, take care Tipster. Your experiences with games on XP were appreciated.

[greenie]

Prior to my weekly maintance scedule with the Maintaince Wizard I turn off all background programs
on my PC with the small utility End It All.Takes about
90 minutes or less to defrag my PC.Also use End It All
when I run FS2002.

greenie

[FSTipster]

I see you have been there. I like the shields up test and the leak test-very useful! Have a good day, Tipster-I'm assuming you live in the U.K.? Whilst is a word you used and it seems to me that the English use this a lot. Either way, English or not, take care Tipster. Your experiences with games on XP were appreciated.

English I am , but I reserve the right to claim to be Brazilian if it gets me a free coffee and some nuts!  ;)

[cratermaker]

This might sound obvious, but alot of peolple overlook turning off the screensaver while runnning defrag.  Everetime the screensaver kicks in, it cause the defrag to start over.  This is true for Windoze 98.  

I recalled that in some case, 98 will report 10% framgmation reguardless of how many time you defrag.  It's some kind of bug.  You can locate the article in their knowledgebase at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto


Another suggestion to save time and aggravation is to use software like Ghost or Drive Image to back up your drive.  I do this everytime before I install anything.

-Crater

[Fly2e]

Thanks everybody for your suggestions. I actually let the system defrag without any interuptions and it took 21 hours. That was long ! I could see it was "working it out" and it did!. Yeah, I always shut all background programs down and Yes, Cratemaker is right, You do need to shut off the screensaver. (I don't use one).

[fisharno]

Hey guys;

I've been following this thread from the beginning. I never thought about partitioning my hard drive. That could have saved me allot of wasted time.

Talking about shutting down background programs.....

Where can I find the "EndItAll" app?

I've been manually terminating the bkgd apps. And, I usually miss one or two, and have to restart the Maintenance Wizzer.

I actually learned a thing or two here.

Thanks, loads.

[greenie]

End It All Version 2 can be downloaded at the PC Magazine Website:http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,4148,2130,00.asp


I use Version 1 for sims and both Version 1& 2 when I defrag my PC.

greenie

[FSTipster]

Just a word of warning folks - there's no mention of Windows XP support for EnditAll - either version.

XP, whilst built around the NT Kernal, has some major coding differences to both NT itself and Win2000.

If any of you are using this in XP, I'd be interested to hear the results but if not, I'd do a system restore point before trying it.

[greenie]

Good point Tipster.In the future I will mention my O/S
2000 ME.

greenie