Will this frag-guard feature in DiskKeeper slow performance?

[jorwex]

I was looking thru all these options in Executive Software Diskeeper and saw this Frag guard option. This is what the help file says about it:

Frag Guard
Frag Guard and the Diskeeper Boot-Time defragmentation feature combine to defragment two critical areas of Windows NT/2000/XP disk volumes¾the Master File Table (MFT) and the paging file¾and to keep them defragmented automatically.

"Frag Guard has an online mechanism that prevents MFT and paging file fragmentation, greatly reducing the need for boot-time defragmentation runs. This mechanism also monitors the fragmentation levels of the MFT and paging file, and automatically sets a boot-time defragmentation operation to run when either of these levels exceeds a threshold that you set. The boot-time defragmentation will only occur during a time period you specify.

When enabled, Frag Guard ensures the MFT and paging file can grow in a contiguous manner. If either the MFT or paging file do become fragmented, the Diskeeper Boot-Time feature is called upon to restore the MFT and paging file to a defragmented condition.

On any disk volume that has a fragmented MFT or paging file, first run a full Boot-Time Defragmentation of the volume to "clear the way" for Frag Guard to function fully.

The dialog box that controls the Frag Guard settings is displayed during setup, but can also be accessed later from the Action menu. Click on the various parts of the display below to see a description about that section of the display."

You guys think its a bad idea? On my other system I had before this one, I did all thelittle tweaks that sounded ok from that videoguys site that was in one of the ATI All in wonder optimization guides on this site. One of em was to defrag the page file upon shut down. it was some setting in the one of those *.msc's that u put in run.

thanks!

[redwudz]

The OS can do scheduled defrags also. If the defrag program were to decide to defrag in the middle of an encode you would definately have a problem. I personally don't like any automatic programs running, especially defrags. Run the XP defrag program and it will tell you if it needs to defrag. I don't do it that often unless I add and delete a lot of small files.