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To: upchuck
What are you looking for? Maybe I can help.

Hey thanks, Chuck, but please don't trouble yourself.

The one that stuck in my craw the most was the defrag tool. I had a devil of a time finding it, and when I did, Windows suggested that I leave that pesky little task up to the computer.

Huh? Excuse me, Microsoft, but I'll be the judge of when my computer needs defragging.

Appreciate your offer to help. Thank you.

53 posted on 02/28/2012 9:26:43 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
The one that stuck in my craw the most was the defrag tool. I had a devil of a time finding it, and when I did, Windows suggested that I leave that pesky little task up to the computer.

In XP, the defrag program was a VERY scaled-down version of Diskeeper [from Executive Software].

I found a freeware verision of Executive Software's Diskeeper Lite at MajorGeeks, loaded it, and it over-rode XP's scaled-down version. So that when you clicked on Disk Defrag from the Windows Accesories/System Tools drop-down box, Diskeeper Lite automatically ran [NOT the Windows XP scaled-down version].

Don't know if this would work in Win 7, though.

FYI - Diskeeper Lite does have a Welcome pop-up box each time you run it. But, you can just 'X' out of it. ALSO, the first time you run it after installation, you get a "bogus" MMC error. If you click the "ignore this time and every other time" selection, you will never see this "bogus" error again ...

58 posted on 02/28/2012 10:08:43 PM PST by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Windflier
The Auslogics defragger does a quicker, more efficient job than Win 7.

Ccleaner does a more thorough job than Win 7.

The Todo backup is much better than the Win 7 backup. More info here.

62 posted on 02/29/2012 5:56:15 AM PST by upchuck ("The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." Ecclas. 10:2)
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