Need a Defrag Program

DNAlevelC

DNAlevelC

Gawd
Joined
Jul 3, 2004
Messages
810
I am running Vista Premium on my laptop, I have the defrag program set to auto run, but it seems like it isn't helping much. I am looking to get a program just for defragging. Anyone have an recommendations on a program? I prefer free, but if I have to purchase a program I will. I need my lappy to run smooth.
 
Or there's jkdefrag, Auslogics Disk Defrag, etc.

jkdefrag takes hours to defrag and only makes things slower.
The Auslogics one is a faster version of the Windows defrag that doesn't compress files, it just moves them.

Cleaning and defragging the registry helps.
You can use CCleaner's registry cleaner, and then use Auslogics' Registry Defrag.
You can also run Sysinternals' PageDefrag just once to defragment the page files, swap file, etc.

Could you tell the HDD model? Laptops often have very slow hard drives coming with them. Changing it can often make a good difference.
 
I do have a 5400rpm HDD, but I have noticed it boggin down a bit recently. I could burn a DVD at 4x before and surf the net with no problems, but now the HDD goes nuts if I do that. I run CCleaner about once a week to keep everything smooth. I will try Defraggler and see how that goes.
 
I'm sure Acer didn't put a nice Momentus 5400.5 or 7200.3 in there ;-) (The 5400.5 is probably cheaper and as fast as the 7200RPM though, it was released a few months later)
 
I've had great experiences with O&O Defrag for years on both XP and Vista.
 
Technically only the non-system drives still need to be defragmented, but it's not bad to run a full defrag once in a while. I use Defragler and it works great, the only downside is that you can't do custom file arrangements (forcing a set of files to be at the end of the partition when you don't care about it's speed as much, etc).
 
I haven't done any burning since I defragged, but I do notice the system having a bit more pep. I will attempt to burn something tomorrow. When I loaded Defraggler is showed me that I had over 14gig of files fragmented. That is even after the Vista defrag program has supposedly been running defrag on my system every week.

As I said all seems better now, but I will know more when I burn something to a DVD.
 
I use Defraggler for daily defrag and JKDefrag for weekends optimization :D
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top