defragmentation

[mbam daz.]

hello.just a quick query really.im currently using defraggler from piriform to defrag my hard drive.Just wondered if this product is ok or does anybody suggest any better programs? Thank you.

[fotofinish]

hello.just a quick query really.im currently using defraggler from piriform to defrag my hard drive.Just wondered if this product is ok or does anybody suggest any better programs? Thank you.

Hi there. Have tried quite a few (both free and paid) and have finally settled on Auslogics Disk Defrag. And it's free )

[mbam daz.]

thanks mate.that is actually the one i had in mind.Oh by the way have you got enough add-ons for firefox? hahaha.all the best and thanks again.

[abuaufa]

Puran Free is my top. Give it a try and decide. IMO, its the best free disk defragmenter. I love boot time defragmentation.

http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag-Download.html

I use auslogics as alternative.

[noknojon]

I have been using Defraggler for a long time now - My M/soft app had a problem , so I searched about and found this the best to suit me -

Try a few and then decide which suits you , or 'feels best' for you to use -

Thank You -

[yardbird]

I've been using it for a couple of years with no problems!

edit: however if your running a duo core, XP... with 3gb of ram - you may find that your pagefile & MFT become hard to defrag.... so I bought a home copy of Diskeeper -- just look at your results on the defraggler and see if those files are stuck in the area of 33% "cannot defrag an more" (like I was) otherwise defraggler should do the trick !!! 30 day Trial on Diskeeper...

[noknojon]

Hi yardbird -

Those files were some of the ones I had problems with when using M/soft built in one -

Defraggler has been updated and I don't have that problem now (but only 1 Gig here)

[Guest remixed]

Auslogics Disk Defrag is the best freebie. (as with Defraggler uncheck the toolbar options)

Download here

O&O Pro is the best paid option

[mbam daz.]

hi.Thanks for the advice.i shall certainly try some of those options.take care and thanks again.

[mountaintree16]

I use a .bat file as of last year that runs the defrag that comes with Windows automatically.

[exile360]

I use a .bat file as of last year that runs the defrag that comes with Windows automatically.

Really? A .bat file that does that automatically? Where on Earth would you acquire such a file ?

[sho-dan]

Really? A .bat file that does that automatically? Where on Earth would you acquire such a file ?

Why exile360, it comes from the batcave of course.

[mountaintree16]

Really? A .bat file that does that automatically? Where on Earth would you acquire such a file ?

Yes, really Do you really need to ask me where I got it from? :)

[YoKenny1]

I use PageDefrag 2.32 By Mark Russinovich on my XP Pro system:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx

[YoKenny1]

PageDefrag does not work on my Windows 7 system

I see

\??\C:\Windows\SysWow64\Drivers\PAGEDFRG.SYS has been blocked from loading due to incompatibility with this system. Please contact your software vendor for a compatible version of the driver.

See

Analyze your event logs with Event Log Explorer

[Mystery]

Auslogics Disk Defrag is what I'm using for a long time now, running really fast and smoothly

[bramen]

I've been using the built in defragger but I too am currently checking out the trial versions of 3 rd party automatic defraggers. From what I have used its so much easier than scheduling the defrag and some of these commercial programs seem to have other useful features like low free space defragmenting and preventing a lot of the fragmentation from ocuring. I find the background defrag option quite useful as I dont need to turn off the other programs while defragging. I am yet to decide which one to get though

[exile360]

For the paid defraggers I always liked O&O Defrag, it's quite powerful. In Vista and 7 most third party defraggers are pretty much obsolete though, as it automatically does background and scheduled/idle defrag. The newer versions of Windows are pretty good at taking care of themselves .