I will second John's comment. Just a few days ago, I had Norton Speed Disk
lock up and scramble my bookmarks in Firefox. At least that is the only
damage that I have so far uncovered. Don't take this to mean that Norton SD
is particularly unsafe - it could happen with any defrag software.

Peter
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> -----Original Message-----
> Defragging too often accomplishes nothing. Only when the files on your
> computer become spread around and fragmented to the point
> that your system
> seriously slows down do you need to defrag. A typical
> computer user should
> defrag about every three months. If you are a heavy duty user
> then once a
> month, and a person who continually moves his programs and files
> continually all over the place, about every two weeks.  You
> risk creating
> errors every time you defrag (even though the odds are low
> that you will
> develop an error). Any good defrag program will recommend
> when to defrag.
>
> Good luck.
>
> J. Dent

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