Back in the old days (just last year, in fact), the stock disk defragmenter in Windows looked something like this:
If you had no choice but to defragment a drive immediately, then at least you could entertain yourself by watching little green and red stripes bounce around inside the window. A quick glance could tell you if the defragmentation was nearing completion.
Along comes Vista, with a new defragmenter interface:
The defragmenter takes more of a Hollywood "don't call us - we'll call you" approach. I haven't found any red, green, and blue bars moving around to pass the time.
All I have left is hope.
I hope this finishes.
I hope this finishes soon.
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Y'know what is silly about vista's defrag? It ignores the fact that my laptop isn't switched on at 3AM on Wednesdays.
(Actually, sadly enough, mine is - but you know what I mean!)
Best to use a standalone defragger like Diskeeper Pro (that is what I use). Fast and comprehensive defragging of multiple drives at the same time, and the option to defrag the $MFT and other system files. Highly recommended.
Frederik: Defragging with progams like diskeeper does not take long. If you have heavily fragmented large volumes, then run defrag when not using the PC.eg overnight.
I havent read the article, but whoever claims file fragmentation has no effect on PC performance is smoking some strong stuff.
I say next version the get, they need to make a screen where each bar is a cube, a little ship scrolls along the bottom and blasts them, collecting them in order down the bottom of the screen.
And maybe a little UFO scrolling back and forth along the top.