Defrag This!

Every year some relative gets my kids a "cool" computer toy that plugs into the PC to get to the Internet. The shit is made in China, and for $15 now much computing power can be in the damn thing anyway.

So each year I spend the couple days after Christmas cleaning up the computer form all the stuff the kids did to it over the year trying to get the piece of shit toy to work.

This year the speakers were not working, so installing the latest drives fixed that problem, then I decided to "defrag" the hard drive.

What a load of crap. I launch the standard software that comes with windows and off I go down a path of pain-in-the-ass. The thing does not defrag crap!

The first issue is that it wants 15% of the drive in free space. You know how much that is when you have a 250Gb drive? Shit, if I have a 1Tb drive it would want 250Gb just to do some house keeping! Tell Bill to pound salt and get out of bed with the hardware vendors.

Being the nice corporate citizen that I am to Microsoft, I clean up a bunch of old crap to the to the 15% and then expect a nice packed in no fragementation drive when it's done. Bullshit! It's just a pretty graph and shakes and moves some colors, but nothing happens. How can you not defrag a 15Mb file that is in 562 pieces into one file when you have 25Gb to do it in?

This is crap, I need to go off and find a better utility.

At the end of the day, I'm not sure that defrag adds that much performance, again just trying to be a good corporate citizen.