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0 pointsiforgotpassword2y ago0 comments

The crazy thing about the 9x defrag was that it required that no other program access the disk while it was working. When anything else wrote to disk, it would say "disk contents changed, starting over..."

You were expected to close down all programs and little utilities that hid in the systray (sorry, notification area). The OS itself was just the OS, there was no indexing happening, no update check, no random nonsense nobody understands. You could be absolutely sure nothing would access the disk on a cleanly booted win9x.

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pixl972y ago

As 95 went on making sure hidden applications didn't exist got harder and harder too. It seemed over time more applications would use the equivalent of a TSR application that ran in the background with no icon in the systray/start bar and on a regular basis would fiddle with the disk restarting the entire process.

I remember some commonly used winmodem driver would cause this behavior.

mjevans2y ago

At that point I'd rather it ran like the old DOS versions or later Filesystem checks at startup (very useful for boot partitions).

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pixl972y ago

I remember some commonly used winmodem driver would cause this behavior.

mjevans2y ago

At that point I'd rather it ran like the old DOS versions or later Filesystem checks at startup (very useful for boot partitions).

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