Re: Defrag XP-safe mode necessary?

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Hi,

Generally, no. Unlike the defrag utility in Win98, the one in XP can work
past disk writes.s

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"newtoxp" <newtoxp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:06B6BE02-C162-4D4D-BB29-BD06C836F1D4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Following up on my previous post: In Win98 I had to run defrag in safe
> mode;
> is that necessary using XP?
> Thanks.


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