Re: How often to defragment?

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Hi Pop
Thanks for your most informative reply and advice.
However, I notice that you don't mention the need (or lack of a
need)
for ECC RAM to minimize file damage due to frequent defragging.
The poster who alerted me to this potential problem insisted on
ECC RAM
being essential for this purpose.
Any thoughts?
TIA
Paul

Sorry; thought that was settled. Guess I got off track. I've
had three machines that used ECC RAM and had no problems, plus
have never seen anything realiably that back up it bieng a
problem. I looked back to see what you said, and w/r to that, if
it were a problem, then there would also be problems with the
thousands of temporary files that are created/deleted as you use
your machine, problems copying files from one place to another,
moving files, etc. etc..

Just for grins since I haven't done much RAM research lately, I
did a little digging at Google and after about fifteen minutes
hadn't found anything that might or would lead to any issues such
as you mention. Defrag just won't come into the picture as an
issue. If it does, it won't be alone; there will be other things
wrong, they'll be noticeable before one ever does a defrag, and
it won't be the cause of any problems.

Them's my thoughts, anyway
Pop




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