Best Disk Defragger

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Hey everyone I am currently in search of a replacement for windows disk
defrag. It seems to do an okay job, but it doesnt do near as good of a job
as I wish it would do. Any recommendations would be appreciated. TIA

Tully
 
tully said:
Hey everyone I am currently in search of a replacement for windows
disk defrag. It seems to do an okay job, but it doesnt do near as
good of a job as I wish it would do. Any recommendations would be
appreciated. TIA
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Tully, your comment intrigued me...how do you gauge whether a defrag is
good or not?
 
tully said:
Hey everyone I am currently in search of a replacement for windows disk
defrag. It seems to do an okay job, but it doesnt do near as good of a job
as I wish it would do. Any recommendations would be appreciated. TIA

Tully
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http://www.dirms.com/

"Buzzsaw" is on the fly, and works quite well.

"Dirms" is comparable to Executive Software/Diskeeper lite 7.0 - but doesn't
start up a service to do its job (an advantage).

I'm presently using Buzzsaw and DKLite.

Either Dirms or DKLite is better than the standard defrag (imho).
 
jason said:
Tully, your comment intrigued me...how do you gauge whether a defrag
is good or not?
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I've used O&O in the past to defrag my drive, and it just seemed to make a
mess of things. I would end up with more fragmented files than I started
with. Things like that, granted my drive was a complete mess. Severely
fragmented, I guess the app just didn't know what to do. FWIW I tried
diskkeeper lite ran it a few time, 2 hours later my drive is fragment free.
Works like a champ. Thanks for the suggestions.

Tully
 
tully said:
Hey everyone I am currently in search of a replacement for windows disk
defrag. It seems to do an okay job, but it doesnt do near as good of a job
as I wish it would do. Any recommendations would be appreciated. TIA

Tully
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Another way .

Defrag , using a batch file .
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=15600170
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tully said:
Hey everyone I am currently in search of a replacement for windows disk
defrag. It seems to do an okay job, but it doesnt do near as good of a job
as I wish it would do. Any recommendations would be appreciated. TIA

Tully
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I highly recommend Diskeeper Lite. On a client's system that hadn't
been defragged in over 800 days(!), it defragged in just under an
hour--in Windows normal mode! It's very user friendly, too, so the
client is more likely to use it than the WinME defrag program (that is
also very fast but is best run in Safe mode to prevent incessant
restarts due to interrupting processes in normal mode).

How one evaluates which defragger is best (aside from speed) is a good
question, for which I don't have an answer. My understanding is that
the authors of Diskeeper Lite also authored the defrag program
Microsoft incorporated into Win2000 and/or WinXP, but that might be
just a legend.

Cheers, Larry
 
* tully Wrote in alt.comp.freeware, on 2004-01-05:
I've used O&O in the past to defrag my drive, and it just seemed to make a
mess of things. I would end up with more fragmented files than I started
with. Things like that, granted my drive was a complete mess. Severely
fragmented, I guess the app just didn't know what to do. FWIW I tried
diskkeeper lite ran it a few time, 2 hours later my drive is fragment free.
Works like a champ. Thanks for the suggestions.
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The diskeeper engine is Licensed by MS for the defrag in NT/XP I believe.
 
Hi;
It's very annoying when this happens: YEAR "23".

LOL: Ms started issuing OSes in 1980.
Can't find anything for a "01-Jan-23" product!
Fix your date.
As it is your post will stay on top of everything till year 2300.
Mikey
 
Mikey said:
Hi;
It's very annoying when this happens: YEAR "23".

LOL: Ms started issuing OSes in 1980.
Can't find anything for a "01-Jan-23" product!
Fix your date.
As it is your post will stay on top of everything till year 2300.
Mikey
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errr....huh, the date for my post is showing 2004 here.......

--
Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!

Disclaimer:
I know I'm probably wrong, I just like taking part ;o)
 
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I also use Diskeeper Lite BUT I would like to disable the constant nagging
to buy the Pro version.
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Howdy Frank --

I have been through this - easy fix.

For 9X systems: remove DiskKeeper Lite from the *path* in your
Autoexec.bat file. Reboot.

Go to the DK folder in Program Files, and create a sub-folder
named 'no show' or name it whatever you like (this will save the
extra files rather than deleting them).

Next, place the 'show html' executable file as well as the 'HTML'
folder in the newly created folder. Done.

Now you can launch the Program from the desktop with the shortcut
that is created during the install.

Regards, TM
 
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I've used O&O in the past to defrag my drive, and it just seemed to make a
mess of things. I would end up with more fragmented files than I started
with. Things like that, granted my drive was a complete mess. Severely
fragmented, I guess the app just didn't know what to do. FWIW I tried
diskkeeper lite ran it a few time, 2 hours later my drive is fragment free.
Works like a champ. Thanks for the suggestions.
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I am giving O&O V4 trial a test now. It appears to to defrag more
thoroughly than Diskkeeper 7 without hanging constantly. DK7 commercial
version would hang up on me needing more than 14 hours to defrag a my main
HD. Diskkeeper lite would hang up too. Norton Speed Disk would do it in
under 7 hours. Why DK7 took so long or what it has a problem I do not
know. Diskkeeper is not perfect. O&O is keeping my system defragged.
The sad part is no free version appears to exist without going illegal .


Important Note for those unaware...
Diskkeeper 7 Workstation which I have tried and Norton Speed Disk are both
commercial ware apps. O&O is trialware only now. I do still have O&O ver 3
free in zip form if I need it. :)


This has been my two cents on free defraggers.
 
The diskeeper engine is Licensed by MS for the defrag in NT/XP I believe.
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This is correct. Diskkeeper Lite or a similar product is what you get
with WinXP for free. I am not sure about Win2000.
 
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