Aero Taskforce

fumbles wrote on June 10, 2008, 4:08am

Added new image attachment.

fumbles wrote on June 10, 2008, 4:20am

The XP/2k one was fine too, but the 9x was just pretty

longzheng wrote on June 10, 2008, 4:30am

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longzheng wrote on June 10, 2008, 4:30am

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purefusion wrote on June 10, 2008, 7:58am

How about just make the existing one better? I like jkdefrag myself. :)

bearluke wrote on June 10, 2008, 8:11am

showing graphics is a waste of resources. It's insane staying on front of your monitor to seeing useless moving blocks!

fumbles wrote on June 10, 2008, 9:50am

Well some of us don't have lives... duh! ;)

On another note: It is nice to know what has been done, so if I cancelled it half way through I would know if that did a good enough job or it barely started. This way I would know if I had to restart it straight away or I could leave it. This among other things is the reason why I brought it up. IIRC the win9x defragger the block were an optional display.

ui_guy wrote on June 10, 2008, 1:46pm

The question is whether it's enough to know that Vista is doing something good on your behalf in the background or if you should have all the gory details. It defrags by default now and for most people, it's enough because they probably never used it in the past anyway. But if you use your PC more aggressively and your HDD fragments a lot, I think it's only fair to see what's been done to access whether one defrag pass was enough or if you actually require a commercial tool instead. Just getting rid of the UI element has not made it any better or efficient and I don't believe the graphics impaired the experience.

wojtekmaj wrote on June 12, 2008, 7:45am

Yeah - moving blocks was unnecessary.

But it will be good if Windows Vista will show us progress of defragmetation...? Progress bar or precentage?

thenonhacker wrote on June 14, 2008, 3:22am

I prefer the spectrum graphic and it's light on resources, too.

Ensign Joe wrote on July 5, 2008, 1:32pm

At least a progress bar indicator or a number stating "xx percent" should be there.
The best thing is the label saying "This process can take from 5 minutes to a few hours". What a shit?!
They should have kept the old version like they did with chkdsk and format...