BC_P
I spend close 5 decades in the IT industry, and know BL..DY well what a defragmenter does.
if you spend 5 decades in IT it doesn't logically follow that you know what a defragmenter does. Clearly you are proof of this.
Both platforms suffer from the syndrome called "The Chaining Effect". It sticks / links the altered / new data on the bottom. Not in between somewhere.
No. new data is placed in the first available free spot. mainframes may be different but they are largely irrelevant in the context of Microcomputers.
-On a PC it will take several passes to clean up the mess. Have you really tested this out? Of course you would not spend the time testing this out because you consider it all nonsense.
Have I tested it out? you mean have I used the built in defragmenter repeatedly and edited text files to achieve what is a foggy and ill-specified goal at best? No,can't say that I have.
-On a Mainframe, the files are unloaded and reloaded.
Again, Mainframe!=Minicomputer!=Microcomputer.
During the years I have seen enough Vendors with useless unreliable products.
There are plenty of those, to be sure, malware, registry cleaners, and the like. But that doesn't make then any and all third party utilities bad. This is particularly driven home by the fact that the very XP utilities to are pushing are in and of themselves based on these "evil foreign software" programs that you are decrying, with very thin reasoning as to why.
It is safer to stick with XP utilities if have a XP. Period.
It's nice of you to make declarative statements without any actual citations, but you're going to need to use something other then some off-hand knowledge about how a mainframe works to convince most people that you even understand how a file system works or how files are stored, let alone that you know what the best tool for messing around with those. Either way, I am forced to agree with your statement that it is "safer" but it's even safer to not run any utility to begin with. Additionally you didn't say that. You originally said that
All foreign utilities are a danger to your system.
Which is false.
By the way BC_P, do you always take your North American car to an Asian repair shop or visa versa?
Irrelevant; What you are saying now is that the windows utilities "know more" about how windows is working internally then the third party products, this doesn't begin to address the fact that the XP utilities are licensed versions of third party products; As I noted, for example, Disk Defragmentor as included with XP is simply a lite, reduced functionality version of a "asian repair shop" Executive Software Diskeeper. Microsoft has never written and provided a Disk Defragmenter with any NT-based OS that I am aware of. chkdsk can be duplicated in a few pages of C code, Diskmanagement simply works with well documented partition table and MBR information that is hardly specific to Windows. Disk cleanup doesn't really do anything all that different from CCleaner, since they both call the exact same functions to cleanup (I mean exact same- most Disk Cleanup routines are in fact external libraries that are added to by various products). Really it's interesting because what you are implicitly saying is that everybody should Use internet Explorer because it's "included" with the OS, and that somehow means it's "safer".
