Defragger....?

Bugout2001 · May 3, 2003, 03:08 AM

I had Perfectdisk and liked it, is there a free defragger that is just as good

TIA

gerryf · May 8, 2003, 09:03 AM

diskkeeper lite is still around in some places, like this:

http://www.grassheap.com/software.php?ID=4103

Bugout2001 · May 11, 2003, 10:33 AM

ah ha!

Thank you very muchly

mike2h · May 11, 2003, 11:00 AM

of you are using xp there is nothing better than its built in defrag coupled with bootvis. imo

John_W22 · May 15, 2003, 10:58 PM

Yah, that is what I use...XP's built-in defragger

Shaman · May 16, 2003, 11:33 PM

Microsoft has been using Diskeeper as the deframenter in thier operating system since nt 4, You'll find that its a very lite version tho. Go to www.diskeeper.com, you will be amazed at what the real program can do for you.

***Zardon*** · May 21, 2003, 06:41 AM

do not post these threads in the driverheaven tools forum, that forum section is for topics specifically relating to Spikes, Dalamars or Patjes apps, ive moved this to the relevant forum.

PangingJr · May 21, 2003, 09:11 PM

for me, only "diskeeper" will do.
but i just cant put up with its service that start with winXP..
its been installed/removed from XP so many time, from v7 - v7.428.
now i decided to dfrg all 11 partitions on the system from win2k or win2k3.. using the DK home/server versions. and winXP'll only use the "PageDefrag" by Mr.Mark Russinovich at www.sysinternals.com

Impulse · May 22, 2003, 02:20 PM

I really recommend O&O Defrag. While the intergrated defrag program in Win2k/XP is Diskeeper, which works just fine, but I really notice how fast O&O Defrag is, than Diskeeper.

bld155 · Jun 20, 2003, 02:02 PM

i have used O&O defrag and diskeeper and i like deskeeper better, O&O didnt do a good job in my opinion

NucleuZ · Jul 4, 2003, 09:06 AM

Diskkeeper is the best....I also used to like the SpeedDisk which comes with Norton Utilities, but the whole bundle it comes with includes too many junc utilities which just littre your system.

PangingJr · Jul 4, 2003, 09:51 AM

"PerfectDisk 6" it came with build 25 in retail version, make sure you use online update to version 6 build 26.. well this is the best for me right now.. my pc boot faster, all apps startup/run better/faster than before..no more "diskeeper" about time!

losingstreak · Jul 17, 2003, 06:45 PM

there's always O&O soft's defragger too. Not free tho. I've tried O&O's, Diskeeper 7 and perfect disk 6 and i've found that perfect disk's defragger has given me the best results. O&O seemed to make my system laggier and Diskeeper 7's boot time defrag made windows unbootable for me twice (haha, reinstalled windows 3 times that day...when it screwed it up the first time, i reinstalled then tried it again...same results)

Stormy · Jul 18, 2003, 12:59 AM

I use the full edition of Diskeeper and man! Only fragmented file is my NTLDR, which got mysteriously compressed some time ago... I got that sorted out though

BWX · Jul 18, 2003, 02:08 AM

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/contig.shtml

I downloaded this "contig" - But I can't seem to get it to work. When I run it- it instantly disappears. I figured you have to run it in dos, but I can't do that either. It looked like a cool program.

Warpy · Jul 18, 2003, 02:25 AM

I use Perfect Disk 6.0 and it works like a dream. Supports HDD over 200GB which is good if you wanna upgrade at anytime. The opimization procedure when defrag'n is very good. There are different levels of defrag too, I use to use Norton Speed disk which was very similar, but thats old hat now - especially with HDD gettn bigger.

PangingJr · Jul 18, 2003, 02:26 AM

place the "contig" in XP system32 or %userprofile% folders and you will be able to run it from the Run dialox box.

BWX · Jul 18, 2003, 02:28 AM

Ahh, ok, thanks.

PangingJr · Jul 18, 2003, 02:31 AM

Norton Speed disk is still good - But for using it on win2K only! ..Perfect Disk 6 is far/more advanced than that.

Warpy · Jul 18, 2003, 02:36 AM

For sure.........

Perfect disk is the way to go me thinks.

Also if you want damn good optimization Program, grab WinXP Manager 4.7.1
It's the best thing i have seen for XP. I use to use TweakXp 2.0.11 but compared to this, its a joke!

PangingJr · Jul 18, 2003, 02:54 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by BWX232
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/contig.shtml

I downloaded this "contig" - But I can't seem to get it to work. When I run it- it instantly disappears. I figured you have to run it in dos, but I can't do that either. It looked like a cool program.

by placing the contig in XP system32 or %userprofile% folders.. it'll run from the Run box but i did not see results after testing it... but it will give infos when run it under command prompt..

heres for an example..
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\<your name>contig -s c:\windows\*.dll

Contig v1.41 - Makes files contiguous
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Mark Russinovich
Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com

------------------------
Summary:
Number of files processed : 3965
Number of files defragmented: 0
All files were either already defragmented or unable to be defragmented.

C:\Documents and Settings\<your namet>

-------------------------------------------------------------

***Zardon*** · Jul 18, 2003, 03:01 AM

ill agree with panging on this one, perfectdisc is very good indeed. my main drive is always reformatted once a month so I never need to defrag it, but for my other hard drives its great.

There are the other choices, norton speed disc, diskeeper, and O&O defrag, but my tool of choice is perfect disc.

BWX · Jul 18, 2003, 03:19 AM

PageDefrag is a cool little program! Thanks for the link- Just tried it out and it works great. Everyone should know about this little gem.