NI's products cause severe fragmentation

[JoeTestEngineer]

The log from disk keeper(See attached file) reports that NI's product have produced 2700 fragments in 163 Mb All remaining applications produce less than 100 fragments in about 2MB. How can I fix this problem other than uninstalling NI's products?

Thanks,
Steve

[Elaine_R.]

Hello Steve -

Unfortunately how files are installed and placed on a harddrive is a very Operating System dependent behavior. Our installers have no ability to control how they are written to disk, relying entirely on the Windows file management scheme, so there is no particular cause I can point to that might explain why this machine in particular has the fragmentation pattern that it does.

Regards,

Elaine R.
National Instruments
http://www.ni.com/support

[JoeTestEngineer]

Hi Elaine:

Here is some additional information for you from CVI forum. Try this on your PC.. I have sent a lite version which is free ware that is used to get you to buy the full version.

"I have done this ("deinstall, defrag then reinstall")several times now (That works), but shortly there after the same result develops. I have three PC's all with different OS's (NT, 2000 and XP PRO). One PC has over 100 gig free space (80% free space). DiskKeeper, the Defrag Tool, cannot fix NI's products for some reason. Notice tha attached defrag report. No other product shows the same problem. The PC that the attached report is on has 1.4 gig free of 4 gig (35%).

Why can't "Diskeeper" or the supplied XP defrag tool fix NI's products?

Steve"