Good to get a second opinion. I've downloaded it and am testing it out. The built in windows defragger generally didn't make a difference. Fingers crossed though.
Nahum. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2003 10:15 a.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list offtopic > Subject: RE: RE: [DUG-OFFTOPIC]: RE: [DUG]: >65535 WinXP O/S choking > [from Delphi list] > > > I can very highly recommend Diskeeper, since it also defrags directory > listings, the MFT, etc. > > It does make a difference to the speed of my machine, and you can just > leave it to run in the background using "smart scheduling". > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nahum.Wild > > The only two dev machines with WinXP Pro on them here behave > exactly the > same way. Drives us nuts as most of our code consists of > lots and lots > of > small files. Using the built-in defragger doesn't help and > turning off > the > indexing service did help a bit. We had decided that it was cheap > hardware > with nasty hard drives being the problem - with no proof of > course - and > have been demanding new PCs. :o) > > Might try Diskeeper... > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > > > Is your disk getting fragmented? Especially when you're adding 65k > > small files at a time? > > > > Try Diskeeper or something, not the built-in defragger... > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Alistair George [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > > > > Hi all. > > this is a tad offtopic, but useful if someone knows the answer. > > I made up a wee unit yesterday as follows: > > procedure TMainform.ZIPmodeClick(Sender: TObject); > > var > > fp: file of Byte; > > no: longint; > > filename: string; > > begin > > for no := 1 to 65535 do > > begin > > filename := 'h:\Test' + inttostr(no) + '.txt'; > > assignfile(fp, filename); > > Rewrite(Fp); > > CloseFile(Fp); > > end; > > end; > > > > Once the above is completed (on a 1.2Ghz machine it is SLOW). > > Thereafter > > explorer > > is really choked/slow until I remove the files from whichever > > directory > > they > > have been placed in. Explorers refresh if I click in the > directory for > > example > > can take 2-3 minutes just to show the files within. Any > > suggestions > > on how to > > overcome? They are all '0' size - could this be the problem or what? > > Thanks, > > Alistair+ > > > > Oh, BTW it was a test for the ability of a zip engine to zip > > 65535 files > > then > > zip64 > 65535 files. > > > > PPS just found that by turning off 'indexing service' helps a lot > > although the > > target directory refresh is just as slow. > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Offtopic List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe offtopic" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/offtopic%40delphi.org.nz/ >
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