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Defragmentation of hard disk under Windows Vista has changed. The defrag utility does not really give you any detailed information about your hard disk. The changes between Windows Vista defrag and XP defrag tool. The default Vista setting is a weekly schedule is more than adequate: too frequent and the constant defragmentation causes additional wear and tear on the hard disk for very little additional gain. You might want to override this default mechanism. To use the command line defrag tool in Windows Vista, you have to run the Command Prompt as an administrator. There are many thought on the importance of the defrag. defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation in file systems. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the disk to store the pieces of each file close together and contiguously. It also attempts to create larger regions of free space using compaction to impede the return of fragmentation. Some defragmenters also try to keep smaller files within a single directory together, as they are often accessed in sequence. The movement of the hard drive’s read/write heads over different areas of the disk when accessing fragmented files is slower, compared to accessing a non fragmented file in sequence, without moving the read/write heads.

To view a file fragmentation analysis of your C: drive, type:
Open a command prompt and type the following command and appropriate switches
defrag c: -a -v

To defragment a particular drive, say C:, type:
Open a command prompt and type the following command and appropriate switches
defrag c: -v -r

This is a step-by-step article describes how to install and configure a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server for anonymous access.

First you must Install Internet Information Services and the FTP Service
FTP depends on Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), IIS and the FTP Service must be installed on the computer. To install IIS and the FTP Service, follow these steps. In Windows Server 2003, the FTP Service is not installed by default when you install IIS. If you already installed IIS on the computer, you must use the Add or Remove Programs tool in Control Panel to install the FTP Service.

This assumes you have added IIS already to the server.

Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
In the Components list, click Application Server, click Internet Information Services (IIS) but do not select or clear the check box, and then click Details.
Click to select the following check boxes if they are not already selected:
Common Files, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) Service, Internet Information Services Manager
Click to select the check boxes next to any other IIS-related service or subcomponent that you want to install, and then click OK.
Click Next.

When you are prompted, insert the Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM into the computer’s CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive or provide a path to the location of the files, and then click OK.
Click Finish.

IIS and the FTP service are now installed. You must configure the FTP Service before you can use it. Next you need to Configure The FTP Service

To configure the FTP Service to allow only anonymous connections, follow these steps:
Start Internet Information Services Manager or open the IIS snap-in.
Expand Server_name, where Server_name is the name of the server.
Expand FTP Sites
Right-click Default FTP Site, and then click Properties.
Click the Security Accounts tab.
Click to select the Allow Anonymous Connections check box (if it is not already selected), and then click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box.

When you click to select the Allow only anonymous connections check box, you configure the FTP Service to allow only anonymous connections. Users cannot log on by using user names and passwords.

Click the Home Directory tab.

Click to select the Read and Log visits check boxes (if they are not already selected), and then click to clear the Write check box (if it is not already cleared).
Click OK.

Quit Internet Information Services Manager or close the IIS snap-in.
The FTP server is now configured to accept incoming FTP requests. Copy or move the files that you want to make available to the FTP publishing folder for access. The default folder is drive:\Inetpub\Ftproot, where drive is the drive on which IIS is installed.