User Guide

User’s Guide 79

McAfee Utilities

• Disk Tune provides three verification levels: Verify (slow–ensures data

written to a new cluster can be re ad), Compare (slow est–compares a

reloc atedfile’scont e nts againsttheor iginaltoe nsureitisexactlythesame),

and None (fastest).

• OrderingbyTask–(Windows98only)W indows98trackshow ofteneachof

your programs are used and maintains this information in an application

log file. If you select the Ordering by Task o ption, Disk Tune uses t his log

file to place the mostoften used programsatthe front ofyour drive,so the

programs you use most often start as fast as possible.

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NOTE: When the hard drive is organized using the Ordering by Task

option, other d efragmenters m ight see the drive as highly fragmented.

The File Placement tab

DiskTune classifiesyour disk into five regions: Top, High,Middle, Low, and

Bottom.You can group y ourfilesintofive categories:WindowsComponents,

Recently accessed programs, Recently modified files, User sp ecified f iles, and

All Other Files. There are two additional categories: Free Space and

Un movabl e files.

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TIP: The o ptions you specify in the File Placement tab o nl y apply when

you run a Reorder and U nfragment.

The File Pla cement tab le ts you d ecide whe re the five file ca tegories (suc h as

WindowsComponents)shouldbe locatedin theregionsofthedisk.Normally,

you should put the programs and files you use most often at the front of the

disk (where access times are the quickest).

Figure 4-11. Disk Tune File Placement tab

Click Specify to

set file characteristics

for the corresponding