Disk defragmenting apps

I used Diskeeper a lot back in the day. Now I hear Ultimate Defrag is great too.

Freeware:
I stick to Defraggler. I used to use Auslogics Disk Defrag, then switched to Defraggler due to the ability to schedule. I just tried the latest version of Auslogics again and it is very nice (scheduling and many other options)!
 
Been using the one built into Windows since the Win9X days.
3rd party ones "claim" to work better, they "claim" they can do more than the Windows one, they "claim" the Windows one will leave more fragmented. Well yeah, of course they'll say that...it's advertising/marketing.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Been using the one built into Windows since the Win9X days.
3rd party ones "claim" to work better, they "claim" they can do more than the Windows one, they "claim" the Windows one will leave more fragmented. Well yeah, of course they'll say that...it's advertising/marketing.
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Zing :D
 
criccio said:
7 automatically keeps my drive defraged. IMO if you are still wasting time with 3rd party defraggers you're still stuck in the XP dark ages or your a noob.
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Pretty much what I figured as well.
 
YeOldeStonecat said:
Been using the one built into Windows since the Win9X days.
3rd party ones "claim" to work better, they "claim" they can do more than the Windows one, they "claim" the Windows one will leave more fragmented. Well yeah, of course they'll say that...it's true.
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T,FTFY. At the very least you have control over what they're doing.

I also use MyDefrag (though at home I don't bother with defragmenting, but its useful on ancient XP machines). It's simple, very flexible, better than any other I've tried, and best of all free.

And to the comment about data corruption - all (I assume...) third party apps leverage the Windows defragmenting API, so Windows itself does all the shuffling, the application just tells it where things should go.
 
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