Cancelling A Defrag?

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Hey guys started a defrag last night at 22.30pm and it's still going now :eek:

Problem is I really need to crack on with some work (a day of gaming) so can I just cancel it or is that a bad idea to do so this far in to the defrag?

Thanks.
 
Shadows1990 said:
From Vista onwards, the Windows Defrag isn't actually that bad.
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It really is. Xp was the best at defragging. From vista onwards, the lack of me not knowing what was happening and no timescale, was infuriating. Hence I use Auslogics Defrag.
 
sjcf1 said:
It really is. Xp was the best at defragging. From vista onwards, the lack of me not knowing what was happening and no timescale, was infuriating. Hence I use Auslogics Defrag.
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To each their own I guess. Not everyone needs to see what file is being processed etc.
I use Defraggler as it gets regular updates, and is quicker than the Windows Defrag.
 
I imagine even if you do cancel it, as long as you run it again at a later point, it will correct any files left "all-over the place". I've cancelled a few in the past and noticed no negative impact.

I'm using Defraggler by the way, it's ace :D
 
Correct me if im wrong here but don't most modern de-fragment programs use the standard defragmentation API built into windows now? (or they would not be able to move important things) so all they are doing is sending "move this" commands to the API, the only difference between programs is how they calculate where to move the peices

I prefer http://kessels.com/jkdefrag/ it hasn't been updated since 2008 but its small, fast and very good
 
If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, there's no need to worry about manually defragmenting your hard drive since it's now done on a scheduled date, performed as a very low priority operation and does a perfectly sufficient job.

The amount of maintenance you need to perform on a Windows Vista and a Windows 7 based system can be kept to a minimal if you have carried out smart usage habits from the very beginning. Third-party optimisation / tweaking / registry cleaner type programs which you can get a hold of left, right and centre these days are completely unnecessary. Stop worrying about things like this and use your system for the types of tasks you want it for.
 
sjcf1 said:
It really is. Xp was the best at defragging. From vista onwards, the lack of me not knowing what was happening and no timescale, was infuriating. Hence I use Auslogics Defrag.
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Who actually cares?I mean seriously, you put Windows Defrag on a schedule and you need never, ever think about it ever again. Ever. The Windows Vista/7 defragger is excellent and my drives are never more than 1% fragmented unless I check right after lots of file moves and deletions.

Fire Wizard said:
If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, there's no need to worry about manually de-fragmenting your hard drive since it's now done on a scheduled date and performed as a very low priority operation and does a perfectly sufficient job.
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Precisely. People complaining about the time it takes are doing it manually every time and obviously not doing it very often. The Windows 7 shedule does it every week. If you aren't moving around lots of data then it will never be more than a few % fragmented at any time.

Don't get me started on any other tweaking software... grr :p
 
Precisely. People complaining about the time it takes are doing it manually every time and obviously not doing it very often. The Windows 7 shedule does it every week. If you aren't moving around lots of data then it will never be more than a few % fragmented at any time.
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That depends on how big your drives are, and how much data you have on them, how many you have, ie duel booting, also if you have RAID enabled in your drives.
 
Fire Wizard said:
If you're using Windows Vista or Windows 7, there's no need to worry about manually de-fragmenting your hard drive since it's now done on a scheduled date and performed as a very low priority operation and does a perfectly sufficient job.
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I've just learnt something new :D
 
robinbredin said:
That depends on how big your drives are, and how much data you have on them, how many you have, ie duel booting, also if you have RAID enabled in your drives.
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That's stating the obvious - fact is even if you have Windows 7 dual booting it'll still defrag your data regularly without bothering you about it. The old days of leaving your PC on overnight to defrag every so often are past. Most people, a vast amount of people don't move much data around on a regular basis or if they do it's in compressed files and not tens of thousand of individual files. The most data transfering standard users do these days is to backup to an external drive.
 
Ran Defraggler on my PC (Win7) and most the drives were highly fragmented, so it is worth doing it yourself sometimes.
 
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