Best Defrag Utilities

[DasFox]

Well I have always considered Diskeeper the best for defragmentation, but I have not looked at their utility for many years and have not been keeping up with this area of software.

What's the word these days, who's the best?

Besides regular disk defrag, PageDefrag, looks really interesting, doing page file and registry
defrags:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

THANKS

[Shameless Liar]

I don't notice a difference between any of them, so I just use the one that comes with Windows.

[mikeblas]

O&O's defrag will defrag at boot time, and that's how it gets the page file, the registry, and any other locked files.

[YARDofSTUF]

I was asking about this a while ago, most people liked perfect disk, so I gave it a try and it works pretty damn good.


Heres the thread from then if u care to read it:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1015652

[G_K]

Just for the scripting and autorun features alone. It's not really expensive and it's the best I've tried. The background defragging is a great thing that makes a noticable difference on your system. I put off buying it for a couple of years and went and bought it a few months ago and I really have noticed a difference. Plus I don't even have to manually stop and worry about it.

I can highly recommed springing the $45 for it.

[eeyrjmr]

use Ext2/3 as your filesystem and you NEVER need to defrag - it writes file in contiguous locations

[digitalman]

Just for the scripting and autorun features alone. It's not really expensive and it's the best I've tried. The background defragging is a great thing that makes a noticable difference on your system. I put off buying it for a couple of years and went and bought it a few months ago and I really have noticed a difference. Plus I don't even have to manually stop and worry about it.

I can highly recommed springing the $45 for it.

I'll second O&O

[digitalman]

I don't notice a difference between any of them, so I just use the one that comes with Windows.
You do know that the ones hat have come with Windows hve been a crippled version of what used to be Diskeeper Lite.

[DasFox]

Looks like Diskeeper is still the way to go. I have heard over the years that Windows is a stripped down version of Diskeeper.

I think I'll keep to it, personally people are say O&O has casued issues.

Also I'm giving PageDefrag a whirl.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

I'm using Diskeeper 10 Professional Premier at the moment, it won't run at startup, so from what I have read I have one of the services turned off it needs to start. I can go to the service under Computer Management and click on it to start and it will, so I know it works, just, like I said I have a service off I know I don't need to have running but this thing wants it.

Anyone know which it migt be?

THANKS

[boredguyatcomp]

they all do the same thing so why not stick with something free like the one that comes with windows.

[DasFox]

they all do the same thing so why not stick with something free like the one that comes with windows.

Well not according to Diskeepers specs on it, yes Windows is suppose to be a stripped down light version, but it's not as complete.

Read some of this:

http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/home/premier.asp?pe=7

Is it real or hype, I don't know, but I'm using it and is sure sounds good, LOL

[boredguyatcomp]

Well not according to Diskeepers specs on it, yes Windows is suppose to be a stripped down light version, but it's not as complete.

Read some of this:

http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/home/premier.asp?pe=7

Is it real or hype, I don't know, but I'm using it and is sure sounds good, LOL

what their comparison says doesnt make me think its doing anything different, mostly just scheduleing options.

[DasFox]

Well what about this I-FAAST?

[boredguyatcomp]

i dont know, probably something they made up? tell me exactly what it is and i'll tell you what i think hows that? :p

[DasFox]

I'm not on the box that has the diskeeper on it, all I can say is it defragged the drive again another way saying it was going to give a 19% increase.

Also it has a option to adjust the MTF table saying this would give better performance and less fragmention to this as well as working with the page file and defragging it if needed.

All I can say is there is alot more going on here then the Windows version, personally with Diskeepers reputation I can't imagine they'd get away with just throwing BS out there to the public.

[boredguyatcomp]

i dont know never used it so im not going to totally diss it. i mean as far as defragmentation is concerned all its doing is moving parts of the files to differnt parts of the hard drive.

[tazzmissionx]

XP uses a stripped down version of Diskeeper 6, which I think came out late 2000/early 2001.

[OldMX]

PowerDefragmenter GUI (sysinternals contig) + Windows Defrag (DK Lite) :D

oldmx