Defragmenting while VNC is running

[David Bakin]

>I'm running Win98 and use VNC to access my machines databases and other
>resources when I am at work... Therefore I leave the VNC service running
all
>the time.
>
>I recently updated to the newest version 3.3.3r2 and found my system would
>not defrag while it was running... Has something changed that I'm not aware
>of? Has anyone else run into this problem?
>
>As soon as I disable VNC my system defragments fine but this is a pain
>because I often set my system to defrag when I head to work or even
>innitiate it after getting to work through VNC.

I'm guessing that what you mean is that the defrag utility runs but never
makes progress, e.g., continually resets itself to the beginning to "read
the disk structures" or whatever it says.

In that case, the answer is that somewhere in the newest VNC server it is
periodically - and perhaps frequently - updating some file on the disk.
This could be a log file, or it could be a registry variable - which of
course ultimately lives in a registry hive file.

This answer, unfortunately, is correct but not useful - since I can't tell
you what file or registry value is being periodically updated by VNC 3.3.3r2
that wasn't before.  But maybe someone else can.

-- Dave



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