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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: nvsblmnc on April 22, 2008, 05:39:53 am
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Started a defrag run on my main PC this morning at 06:10 using the built in Vista defrag utility (I know, bad idea). It's 11:35 now, still going and I have no idea how long it's going to take 'cause Vista doesn't give me any details. :ick:
I'm committed to this run now, but I just don't have this much time to waste on a regular basis - any suggestions on something that'll make for a fairly quick defrag run on a 900GB system?
Please? :(
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I thought Vista used a defrag utility on the background when you aren't running anything.
Anyway, this article (http://vistarewired.com/2007/02/15/defragment) might help.
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Thanks for the link. I'll look into that for future use.
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I use PowerDefrag, it works very well.
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Diskeeper is the best. However it's not freeware. The trial is quite convincing though.
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Diskeeper is on my dad's work laptop, it has an auto-defrag function on it that defrags in the background. XP actually uses a much cut down version of Diskeeper.
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Diskeeper is the best. However it's not freeware. The trial is quite convincing though.
Man we had that for a shot time on the Vax system where I used to work. Only thing it did was eat up all the processor and IO resources. Never did do well at defragging. Of course that was over 10 years ago.
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I use Diskeeper on XP and it works well enough, much faster than the built-in Windows one, but I don't let its background service run except when I actually want it to defrag.
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I use AusLogics Disk Defrag for XP, and I am happy with it. It seems to be a lot better than what comes standard with XP, but I am not sure how it would compare with other products.
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Windows XP had a background defragger. (TweakUI FTW!).
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That contig thing seems pretty compelling, I'm defragging with it right now. Gotta put out another vote for Diskeeper though, it's awesome.
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PowerDefrag = contig with GUI frontend I use that... link in my sig. (under "Optimize")
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Is there any defrag program with markedly better defragging skills than the built-in XP/2000 one(s)?
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Not really... just with some scheduling ability thrown in.
Wish Microsoft would use a journalling file system for a change.
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Is there any defrag program with markedly better defragging skills than the built-in XP/2000 one(s)?
Contig + PowerDefrag. Basically, it runs Contig on every file in the system, then runs Windoze defrag after. Works quite well. Give it a try... it's free, and less than 500KB total to download.
Contig (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx)
Power Defragmenter GUI (http://majorgeeks.com/Power_Defragmenter_GUI_d4647.html)
Unzip both to the same directory, then run Power Defragmenter GUI.exe , and select the PowerMode Disk Defragmentation mode.
If you want, you can also use PageDefrag (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx) to defrag some system files that are normally not able to be modified (eg, pagefile, hibernation file, registry, and others).