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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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:: 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 I love Diskeeper, easy to use, set and forget - For enhancing file system performance - http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp There's also Paragon Home and Office, Small Business & Medium and Large Business Utilities for hard disk management etc http://www.paragon-software.com/ and Raxco - PerfectDisk - Defragmentation - easy to use http://www.raxco.com/ Some find Windows built-in defrag okay for them, some prefer more control, it's just simply a matter of choice. Different products offer more than just the basic defrag option. I'm sure others will be able to provide some more alternatives including some freebies. -- TaurArian [MVP] 2005-2009 - Update Services http://taurarian.mvps.org ====================================== How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 Disclaimer: The information has been posted "as is" with no warranties or guarantees and doesn't give any rights. Computer Maintenance: Acronis / Diskeeper / Paragon / Raxco |
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Leo
None that are worth paying for! In most situations the Disk Defragmenter coming with Windows XP does a perfectly adequate job. Remember it is important to run Disk CleanUp ( or better still cCleaner ) before Disk Defragmenter to get the best results. Where there is a large fragmented file and limited free disk space Defraggler is useful. You can defragment individual files. An interesting relatively new entrant to the market is Defraggler (freeware for home users) which I am currently testing. It is worth looking at and does not with any negative reports. It also comes from the software house providing cCleaner: http://www.defraggler.com/features -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ....... wrote: 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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Leo
None that are worth paying for! In most situations the Disk Defragmenter coming with Windows XP does a perfectly adequate job. Remember it is important to run Disk CleanUp ( or better still cCleaner ) before Disk Defragmenter to get the best results. Where there is a large fragmented file and limited free disk space Defraggler is useful. You can defragment individual files. An interesting relatively new entrant to the market is Defraggler (freeware for home users) which I am currently testing. It is worth looking at and does not with any negative reports. It also comes from the software house providing cCleaner: http://www.defraggler.com/features -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ....... wrote: 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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On Mar 26, 1:25*am, "......" wrote:
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 At this place where I do some computer odds and ends, so many people that think their computer is too slow (often quite suddenly) just automatically think, or have heard that any perceived performance problem is a fragmented hard disk and the fix for just about any ailment is to defragment. Another good one is, I am running out of room on my hard disk, so I must defragment it to get more room. Why not try the Windows defragment tools? I think most people find them adequate. They will show you a nice colorful before and after picture, then take a long time to run and probably won't help much at all, but at least try it. Then you can download some other tools or pay for some and probably get the same results for your time and effort. You will likely still have your problem. Do some before and after timing and space comparisons and see what you get. Perhaps your disk really is fragmented badly and needs some help - could be. It would be interesting to know if the unknown problem you are trying to solve is remedied by defragmenting. It would be more interesting to know what the real problem you are trying to solve is. Or maybe you are just curious about fragments and don't have any problem to solve. Good for you. If you are having some performance issues, look for help with them by providing more details about the problem and your setup. Defragmenting does not solve everything. |
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On Mar 26, 1:25*am, "......" wrote:
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 At this place where I do some computer odds and ends, so many people that think their computer is too slow (often quite suddenly) just automatically think, or have heard that any perceived performance problem is a fragmented hard disk and the fix for just about any ailment is to defragment. Another good one is, I am running out of room on my hard disk, so I must defragment it to get more room. Why not try the Windows defragment tools? I think most people find them adequate. They will show you a nice colorful before and after picture, then take a long time to run and probably won't help much at all, but at least try it. Then you can download some other tools or pay for some and probably get the same results for your time and effort. You will likely still have your problem. Do some before and after timing and space comparisons and see what you get. Perhaps your disk really is fragmented badly and needs some help - could be. It would be interesting to know if the unknown problem you are trying to solve is remedied by defragmenting. It would be more interesting to know what the real problem you are trying to solve is. Or maybe you are just curious about fragments and don't have any problem to solve. Good for you. If you are having some performance issues, look for help with them by providing more details about the problem and your setup. Defragmenting does not solve everything. |
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Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like
defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo |
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Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like
defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo |
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On Mar 26, 7:37*am, "......" wrote:
Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo ....oh yeah, after running whatever gets run to defragment, that after picture sure looks good - not so much red stuff as in the before picture, so this tells me that the defragment really did the job and. I told you! Look how fast it is now! (they say). But after a short while... Wait - my computer is slow again or even worse and I only recovered .01% free space. Therefore I must need a better defragment tool. People are funny sometimes. Good luck! |
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On Mar 26, 7:37*am, "......" wrote:
Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo ....oh yeah, after running whatever gets run to defragment, that after picture sure looks good - not so much red stuff as in the before picture, so this tells me that the defragment really did the job and. I told you! Look how fast it is now! (they say). But after a short while... Wait - my computer is slow again or even worse and I only recovered .01% free space. Therefore I must need a better defragment tool. People are funny sometimes. Good luck! |
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....... said this on 3/26/2009 1:25 AM:
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 I like and use windows defrag only in that it here and I expect it to work. But to answer your question, I do like O&O defrag too. It seems to pack the drive better than XP's version. Another is Tune Up Utilities 2008. Along with other tools, it comes with a defragger. I've used them both and I like the user interface and a few options but they take up room and load resident programs and then we get back to the story of "does it do anything really better". I opt to go back to windows a free up the space. Simplicity. But you asked the question, and honestly, best for you might not be my best. I think both offer you a trial download. |
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....... said this on 3/26/2009 1:25 AM:
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 I like and use windows defrag only in that it here and I expect it to work. But to answer your question, I do like O&O defrag too. It seems to pack the drive better than XP's version. Another is Tune Up Utilities 2008. Along with other tools, it comes with a defragger. I've used them both and I like the user interface and a few options but they take up room and load resident programs and then we get back to the story of "does it do anything really better". I opt to go back to windows a free up the space. Simplicity. But you asked the question, and honestly, best for you might not be my best. I think both offer you a trial download. |
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Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo "I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed" - that's not going to help, unless: 1) the software is set to run at Windows' start-up and consumes resources or 2) you're REALLY down to close-to-zero free space and getting warnings from Windows about that Or, circuitously, if you're low on free space and XP's defragmenter can't start/complete properly, then removing enough unnecessary software might free up enough space to let it run and thereby improve performance - but I don't think that's really what you're after. There are far more worthwhile things to look into to improve speed - check through this group for previous posts with guidance on that. |
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....... wrote:
Thanks everyone. I am not having any problem with my system but I like defragging my disk every month. I have been using auslogic for the job but now I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed. So I was wondering whether windows built-in defrag can do the job for me. regards Leo "I want to uninstall all unnecessary software form my system to boost its speed" - that's not going to help, unless: 1) the software is set to run at Windows' start-up and consumes resources or 2) you're REALLY down to close-to-zero free space and getting warnings from Windows about that Or, circuitously, if you're low on free space and XP's defragmenter can't start/complete properly, then removing enough unnecessary software might free up enough space to let it run and thereby improve performance - but I don't think that's really what you're after. There are far more worthwhile things to look into to improve speed - check through this group for previous posts with guidance on that. |
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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 __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3965 (20090326) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com 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.. -- Mike Hall - MVP Windows Experience http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/ __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 3965 (20090326) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com |
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