any program that reports how defragmented your drive is?

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Larry Smith

There have been numerous threads here about freeware defragmenting
program.
I am wondering whether any of them (or any others) will first report
as to the current level of defragmentation and whether defragging is
recommended.
FWIW I have a Windows 98SE machine.

TIA



Larry Smith

******************************************************
"I only wear my glasses for two things:
To drive my car and to find it."
Woody Allen
 
There have been numerous threads here about freeware defragmenting
program.
I am wondering whether any of them (or any others) will first report
as to the current level of defragmentation and whether defragging is
recommended.
FWIW I have a Windows 98SE machine.

TIA



Larry Smith

******************************************************
"I only wear my glasses for two things:
To drive my car and to find it."
Woody Allen
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sorry...misread...crackup reports whtjer you need defragging ,but doesnt
perform the defrag itself.
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sorry...misread...crackup reports whtjer you need defragging ,but doesnt
perform the defrag itself.
.e
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Actually that would be OK. I could use other defraggers to do the
job.
Thanks for the input.



Larry Smith

******************************************************
"I only wear my glasses for two things:
To drive my car and to find it."
Woody Allen
 
I used " Crackup" on my Win98 ... you can get it from...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,86456,00.asp
... no install , just put it where you want and run it.
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When I attempt to download crackup.zip I get the pop-up telling me to
subscribe to PC Magazine.
Does this then really qualify as freeware.
I can't locate anywhere else to find a free download of crackup.



Larry Smith

******************************************************
"I only wear my glasses for two things:
To drive my car and to find it."
Woody Allen
 
bassbag said:
sorry...misread...crackup reports whtjer you need defragging ,but doesnt
perform the defrag itself.
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Crackup is a cute darned thing. I really like watching their icon when
it's at work.
 
Is "crackup" available from some place other than PC Magazine? If so,
please post URL.

PC Magazine requires a subscription to download; sounds like
something-other-than-freeware to me.

Thank you ... Tom
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in message
bassbag said:
sorry...misread...crackup reports whtjer you need defragging ,but doesnt
perform the defrag itself.
Click to expand...

Crackup is a cute darned thing. I really like watching their icon when
it's at work.
 
bassbag said:
sorry...misread...crackup reports whtjer you need defragging ,but doesnt
perform the defrag itself.
.e
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Crackup worked fine for years in W95, but since W98SE, it scans my
partitions but always shows 0 % defrag. Yet when I run Windows Defrag,
it clearly shows defrag was needed. I have tried both options, movable
files only and show all files.

Advice?

Mike Sa
 
Try diskeeper lite from Executive Software...
ms said:
Crackup worked fine for years in W95, but since W98SE, it scans my
partitions but always shows 0 % defrag. Yet when I run Windows Defrag,
it clearly shows defrag was needed. I have tried both options, movable
files only and show all files.

Advice?

Mike Sa
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There have been numerous threads here about freeware defragmenting
program.
I am wondering whether any of them (or any others) will first report
as to the current level of defragmentation and whether defragging is
recommended.
FWIW I have a Windows 98SE machine.
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I'll second the recommendations for Diskeeper Lite (Google for it).
One of my clients had never defragged her hard drive in over 900 days
of usage and the fragmentation was palpable. Diskeeper Lite defragged
it *in under an hour* in window's *normal* mode!

Highly recommended!

Larry

PS I have nothing to do with the company.
 
I'll second the recommendations for Diskeeper Lite (Google for it).
http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe

One of my clients had never defragged her hard drive in over 900 days
of usage and the fragmentation was palpable. Diskeeper Lite defragged
it *in under an hour* in window's *normal* mode!

Highly recommended!

Larry

PS I have nothing to do with the company.
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I'll second the recommendations for Diskeeper Lite (Google for it).
One of my clients had never defragged her hard drive in over 900 days
of usage and the fragmentation was palpable. Diskeeper Lite defragged
it *in under an hour* in window's *normal* mode!

Highly recommended!

Larry

PS I have nothing to do with the company.
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Thanks for all the useful feedback.
It is appreciated.



Larry Smith

******************************************************
"I only wear my glasses for two things:
To drive my car and to find it."
Woody Allen
 
BoB said:
Crackup worked fine for years in W95, but since W98SE, it scans my
partitions but always shows 0 % defrag. Yet when I run Windows Defrag,
it clearly shows defrag was needed. I have tried both options, movable
files only and show all files.

Advice?

Mike Sa
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Mike,

You may want to try to re-install crackup. I'm running Win98SE
and here's my Crackup report:
______________________________
CRACKUP Report: Windows 95(b) <---Erroneous info
Generated Sunday, June 29, 2003 14:01:51

Drive C:(None) (FAT32)
Last scan: Sunday, June 29, 2003 14:01:24
11419 Moveable files
882 Directories
24 Unmoveable files
52 Zero-length files

1 Unmovable fragmented files
23 Unmovable unfragmented files
82 Moveable fragmented files and directories
12219 Moveable unfragmented files and directories snip
*** Fragmentation (moveable files only): 0.8%
*** Fragmentation (all files): 0.8%
_______________________________

Diskeeper as you will notice is 17 meg.
WinMedefrag [208k] works fine for me.

BoB
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Thanks, BoB.
It is an executable, but I downloaded a new copy and it runs, scans. I
went through the help file, anyway, this is a report:
CRACKUP Report: Windows 95(b) (usual error)
Generated Wednesday, July 02, 2003 15:17:49

Drive C:(None) (FAT32) (my Windows partition, 4 GB)
Last scan: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 15:17:08
14603 Moveable files
725 Directories
14 Unmoveable files
47 Zero-length files

1 Unmovable fragmented files
13 Unmovable unfragmented files
5 Moveable fragmented files and directories
15323 Moveable unfragmented files and directories

11 Moveable extra fragments (MEF)
9 Unmovable extra fragments (UEF)
30 Bounded free fragments (BFF)
2 Unbounded free fragments (UFF)

1278671 Total clusters (TC)
11331 Unmovable clusters (UC)
1935 Moveable fragmented allocated clusters
303477 Moveable unfragmented allocated clusters
8813 Bounded free clusters
953115 Unbounded free clusters (UFC)

*** Fragmentation (moveable files only): 0.0%
*** Fragmentation (all files): 0.0%

Drive D:(None) (FAT32) (my Programs partition, 4 GB)
Last scan: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 15:17:15
22208 Moveable files
1761 Directories
3 Unmoveable files
194 Zero-length files

0 Unmovable fragmented files
3 Unmovable unfragmented files
109 Moveable fragmented files and directories
23860 Moveable unfragmented files and directories

442 Moveable extra fragments (MEF)
0 Unmovable extra fragments (UEF)
27 Bounded free fragments (BFF)
2 Unbounded free fragments (UFF)

773611 Total clusters (TC)
19 Unmovable clusters (UC)
3379 Moveable fragmented allocated clusters
481497 Moveable unfragmented allocated clusters
1045 Bounded free clusters
287671 Unbounded free clusters (UFC)

*** Fragmentation (moveable files only): 0.1%
*** Fragmentation (all files): 0.1%

I defragged (I also use ME defrag, works fine) about 5 days ago, in my
programs file with file editing, etc, maybe this result is authentic-
comment?

Mike Sa
 
Lance M Hillier said:
ms said:
Diskeeper as you will notice is 17 meg.
WinMedefrag [208k] works fine for me.

BoB
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Diskeeper Lite is a 12.1MB download - FREE - from
http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe
and well worth it - does what I think you want in an analyszer defragger -
and doesn't lock up like defrag.com does in Win98 used to for me....
Hope this helps,
Lance M Hillier, Sr
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W98 or ME defrag never locks up for me. A 12 MB install is no interest
to me.

Mike Sa
 
yeah its built into windows go to;

start > programs > accessories > system tools > disk defragmentor

before you run the defrag you should click the "analyse" button and it will
give you a visual representation and you can also get a report on it
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SNIP

What flavor of windows are you running? Win2k or XP?
Win98FE/SE/ME has no such "analyze" button to my knowledge.

BoB
 
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