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The defrag feature built into Windows 2000/XP isn't Norton or Microsoft. It's a lite version of Diskeeper. I think it synced with about version 4.0. Ancient.
Defragmenting can help speed a badly fragmented filesystem but it's no magic bullet. The hours wasted defragging and analyzing vs. just buying another HD...
Running with a nearly full disk promotes fragmentation. Depends on disk size and the files you create, but when you fill a filesystem beyond the point where it has adequate contiguous free blocks for new file creation, things go downhill quickly. Safe rule of thumb would be to add disk space at 75% full.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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