On Saturday 13 September 2003 04:21 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: <snip> > Anyway - I recently had to buy a PC for my daughter. It came > with something called WindowsXP preloaded. The filesystem was > called NTFS, which - so I'm told - should combine some of the > benefits of UNIX and OS/2. It was heavily defragged even on > the first boot, and every attempt to defrag it was futile. At > least, under OS/2 one could set up the config.sys to defrag > the whole filesystem (HPFS) automatically on boot. Under this > XP-thingy everything seems to be messed up permanently. </snip>
In reply to my own reply : the damned thing was not *defragged* on delivery. On the contrary : it was heavily *fragged*. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % MicroSCOft-free computer.
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