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Richard and all,
Diskeeper is a tool that has been in my "standard" specifications for WinNT
systems for several years.
FYI: Diskeeper Lite is INCLUDED (built-in) in Win2000 Professional.
WinNT users: install it, set it on cruise-control, and never think about it
again. The cost/benefit consideration is a "no-brainer."
(I think I read Diskeeper's just-released version also defrags Win95/98?
Not sure...)
I have also used and been pleased with Raxco's (www.raxco.com) "Perfect
Disk" for defragging NT. Symantec is about to release their own new NT
defragger too... it's a beta available from www.symantec.com.
Doug
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Doug Forman, MCSE (doug@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Incline Systems, Inc. - Vancouver, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard [mailto:olfogey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 18, 1999 8:41 AM
> To: Ullrich Fischer
> Cc: Larry Wright; omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Defragging Win NT (Was: How to get TS2k to run well (was 2K for
> sale)}
>
>
> Dear Group,
>
> I am running TS 4.0 bld 23 on a P233 with Win NT 4.0 SP 3 ---
> this is not my main
> TS machine, as I use this computer mainly for dedicated Internet access,
> primarily the LOS Squawkbox. By the way, I upgraded from bld 21
> to bld 23 a week
> ago, and the upgrade worked flawlessly. Furthermore, I have been
> running TS 4.0
> bld 21 on this machine for over a year now, and I don't remember
> having a single
> crash. I initially loaded Win 98 followed by TS 4.0 bld 21 on
> this machine and
> was unable to go a single day without a crash. After a week of that, I
> reformatted my harddrive and installed Win NT and TS, and I don't
> recall it
> crashing since.
>
> As a result of reading this thread, I found the Diskeeper
> website, and on it was
> a free download of Diskeeper 4.0 Lite
>
> http://www.execsoft.com/dklite/download.htm
>
> I downloaded and ran it. It first analyses the amount of disk
> fragmentation, in
> both the C (DOS) and D (NT) drives, and thereafter defragments
> them. It found
> that my C drive was slightly, but my D drive was heavily,
> defragmented, the
> latter so much so that it said that the fragmentation would
> necessarily cause
> substantial slowing of my computer analysis. (I have never
> before defragmented
> this computer, which is a little over a year old.) Both the
> download and the
> analysis/defragmentation went flawlessly. I recommend the program.
>
> The Lite version is free. The full version I ran a price check
> on and found that
> it was selling at discount on the Internet for around $40. As
> much as I can
> determine, the only advantage for me for the full version is that
> is can do a
> defragmentation automatically at a user-determined, pre-set time
> (as Ullrich
> indicates below) --- the Lite version defragments only manually.
> For $40, I
> figured I will defragment after the close of the markets on
> Friday afternoon.
>
> For any Win NT user, Diskeeper Lite sounds well needed and a true bargain.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard
>
> Ullrich Fischer wrote:
>
> > I have a fair bit of crap (err...ah... excellent 3rd party
> software) on my
> > NT machine and it still works just fine with TS2Ki, eSignal,
> eudora email,
> > Lotus 123, Excel, MSword, and 3-4 IE 5.0 browser windows
> running. The key
> > to stability on my system was to add Diskeeper 5.0 from
> Executive Software
> > with automatic defrag set to happen between 1am and 6am every night. I
> > don't have any games installed on my machine, just MS Office
> 97, Lotus 123,
> > and a few other utility and graphics packages which I never run during
> > trading hours. I had McAfee antivirus installed briefly but
> that made the
> > system very unstable, so I went back to relying primarily on
> > F-PROT (available free for individual home use from www.complex.is) for
> > virus protection. -uf
> >
> > At 12:40 PM 9/4/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Martin Warlich wrote:
> > >
> > > > S-O-R-R-Y, but I use this beast realtime running every day and night
> > > since it has
> > > > become available here in Germany in April.
> > >
> > >I'm glad to hear it! There is hope for us all.
> > >
> > > > Just to get things right: of course *I* reboot the system
> every weekend
> > > doing disk
> > > > defragmentation, virus scans etc., but I never had a crash using TS.
> > > The key for
> > > > stability is to have an absolute clean NT system with
> service pack>=4
> > > because of
> > > > the updated ODBC drivers and no other software installed than TS and
> > > datafeed
> > > > software: no betas, no shareware, no games, no.... you get it.
> > >
> > >Ahhh... Now we are getting to what one has to do to get it to run.
> > >
> > >I found that TS4 runs *much* better in a dedicated, empty machine.
> > >Perhaps TS2k would also be better on a dedicated machine.
> > >
> > >Are the folks reporting good operation doing very little else on the
> > >machine?
> > >
> > >Are the folks having trouble doing other things - surfing the net (this
> > >has been the primary cause of most non-code-development troubles on my
> > >non-TS machines), running Office, playing games <g>?
> > >
> > >If not, what *are* the differences between those folks who get
> it to run
> > >and the ones having lots of trouble?
> > >
> > > > So, there are no **stability** problems with TS2k, BUT the thing is
> > > >
> > > > S_L__OO___WWWW like hell !!!
> > >
> > >How many symbols, charts; how much chart complexity? These factors may
> > >also help define what is practical to do with TS2k.
> > >
> > >
> > > > Of course, we all know that besides of speed there are a
> lot of other
> > > things that
> > > > should be done by Omega to improve their software,
> especially regarding
> > > the 4-plot
> > > > limitation, global variables, double precision math, continuous
> > > intraday contracts,
> > > > plotting in subgraphs etc...
> > >
> > >It would seem that 2k is mostly just a repackage of TS4, with more eye
> > >candy added. We'll have to wait for improvements in
> functionality - they
> > >don't contribute to the glitz, they just help traders.
> > >
> > > > I don't care if you think I'm a newbie, an Omega-fan, a
> Cruz-employee
> > > or what else
> > > > you might think. These are just my experiences, I'm sure
> you have your's.
> > >
> > >Hey - I don't care what you are <g> - thanks for the info...
> > >
> > >Larry
>
>
>
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