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Executive Software International, Inc. is preparing to ship the first disk-defragmenting utility for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT, according to the Glendale, Calif., company.
Diskeeper for Windows NT, scheduled to ship this quarter, provides a "set and forget" tool that runs in the background on NT-based systems. It continuously writes and rewrites files so they are not spread out in fragments all over the disk system.
Many files on a hard disk become fragmented over time because space is alternately freed up when a file is deleted and reused when a new file is written. Because a...