"Big_Al" wrote in message
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Twayne said this on 3/26/2009 2:51 PM:
Never mind: Apparently you're talking about the screen display of
fragmentation is represented on the disk. Yes, those are pretty
inaccurate. I do recall a time you could tell what file each legend on
the screen represented, but that went the way of the dinosaur when drives
got so large.

Cheers,

Twayne



Mike Hall - MVP wrote:
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Hi,

Which is the best defrag tool (free/paid)?
Whats the advantage of using a third-party defrag tool over Windows
built-in tool?

regards
Leo

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If you want to pay, get Diskeeper 2009. You already have a free one.
It is called Windows Defragmenter and works well enough.

I haven't tried PerfectDisk, but even Diskeeper sets the defrag
graphic to OFF by default in order to speed up the process overall.
There is no benefit to a defrag graphic. All it ever shows is that
the computer is doing something. Accurate it most definitely isn't..



Actually the O&O defrag tool lets you click on any of the boxes in its
graphical display and it will list the files in that cluster. I find
it quite nice.


Yes, but displaying that graphic puts even more load on the system.
Defragging can take enough out without having the visual sitting on the pile
too..


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