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From: kji@vpnet.UUCP (Ken Isacson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: NU Speed Disk
Message-ID: <25a936f6:3975.1comp.sys.ibm.pc;1@vpnet.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 90 08:00:09 GMT
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Regarding the use of PCTOOLS vs Norton Speed Disk.

Defrag your booting hard drive, and time your boot process, especially
if you have quite a few of commands and such the get executed in your
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file.   Then switch to the other program, and
defrag your disk, and time your boot process.

I found that it took 27 seconds for boot with the use of PCTools compress
and it took only 20 seconds for boot with the use of Norton Speed Disk
as the hard drive compression method.