Vista’s Amazingly Great Disk Defrag Interface (Sarcasm)
Microsoft Vista's built-in disk defragmentation tool is supposed to run in the background unnoticed. But, I don't like leaving my PC on when not in use (I turn it off overnight and turn off the power strip it is connected to). So, it usually runs when I am using Vista. So, every now and then, I run it manually to defrag the disk. The problem, like much of Vista, is that the disk defragger is user hostile. The screenshot above is the sole interface to the app.
Once started, it tells you: "This may take from a few minutes to a few hours". That's it. No indicator of any kind, graphical or text.
FYI: I've been using the freeware Defraggler app to defrag XP and Vista PCs for a while now. Seems to work well.
HP Inkjet Ink Use & Cost Mystery Part 2 (HP 02 Cartridges)
Way back in in September 2008, I posted an item titled...
You might want to go back to that item just to read a very interesting and detailed comment to it posted by Eric Hochstein. Eric took a hard long look at the HP 02 ink cartridges and points out a couple of things I didn't know such as the fact that the different HP 02 color cartridges contains different volumes of ink!
I printed out about 200 sheets of paper (double sided) for our annual holiday newsletter last month. This behemoth annual project had over 20 photos of various sizes scattered throughout the 4 printed pages. I bought two sets of ink cartridge packs. The one purchased earlier in the year (2008) included a black. The one bought in December did NOT. The Yellow and Magenta ink were used the fastest followed by Dark Cyan. On the other hand, I still have 2 each of Light Cyan and Light Magenta (pink) cartridges. Based on this, my current belief if that given the kind of things I print (heavy mix of photos and text), it is cheaper to buy individual cartridges.
Thanks again to Eric for posting the detailed comments of his investigation of the HP 02 ink cartridges!