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Old 22-01-2006, 15:11
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Originally Posted by stevem
Yes, but it is free. There are lots of other apps out there that mimic builtin windows tools, and most do a better job, but the windows tools are generally good enough for home use.

The defragger in Windows is actually a slimmed down version of Diskeeper, MS did not ever think there would be a need for a defragger with NTFS (and stupidly said so!!) so did not develop one of their own.

There are loads of things to do to speed up your XP PC, and they are well documented on the net, but some of the best ways to speed up the PC is to uninstall any apps you do not use and to turn off services that are not necessary (Indexing Service for example)
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