Defragmenting while VNC is running

[Arnt Witteveen]

For this purpose, you can get regmon and filemon or diskmon from
sysinternals (www.sysinternals.com). Free & works very well on both NT and
95/98

Arnt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bakin [mailto:davidbak "at" w-link.net]
> Sent: woensdag 12 januari 2000 16:23
> To: Arnt.Witteveen "at" vartec.be
> Subject: Re: Defragmenting while VNC is running
> 
> 
> >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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