Best Defrag for Vista?

axel · 7 Sep 2008 at 21:21

Hi,

I have Googled this and most of the links are well out of date.

Any suggestions?

Axel

Urban Reflex · 7 Sep 2008 at 22:34

I use MS' own Disk Defragmenter. Though to be fair I've never ever noticed an improvement in all my years of defragging.

Wiggins · 7 Sep 2008 at 22:40

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good app to use. Pretty damn fast at defraging and works well on Vista.

I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Vista defrags the drive as standard when the pc is idle.

badbob · 7 Sep 2008 at 22:41

Urban Reflex said:
I use MS' own Disk Defragmenter. Though to be fair I've never ever noticed an improvement in all my years of defragging.

You will with FS-X.
I recommend O&O. You can defrag multiple drive simultanesouly. I'd have the PC connected to a UPS though.

fobose · 8 Sep 2008 at 06:57

I used to run "Diskeeper" when I was using WinXP but now I just use Vista own defragger. When SP1 came out it allowed users to change which HDD's were defragged and allowed you to set up a schedule (once a week for me during the night).

OLDPHART · 8 Sep 2008 at 09:42

I use Defraggler it,s fast and it,s free.

Snakedoctor · 8 Sep 2008 at 09:47

Another vote ofor O&O. Used this at the weekend for the first time and it sorted an awfully fragmented drive out which windows could not. This was in xp though.

egraphix · 8 Sep 2008 at 12:13

yep i use O&O as well..very nice defrag app.

platinum87 · 8 Sep 2008 at 12:30

Wiggins said:
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good app to use. Pretty damn fast at defraging and works well on Vista.
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+1

Hudzy · 8 Sep 2008 at 12:47

I like Defraggler.

ThundyCat · 8 Sep 2008 at 17:16

Wiggins said:
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good app to use. Pretty damn fast at defraging and works well on Vista.

I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Vista defrags the drive as standard when the pc is idle.

+2

Greenlizard0 · 8 Sep 2008 at 17:25

JK Defrag with GUI.

jbloggs · 9 Sep 2008 at 10:12

Vista's own defrag program I have found to be quite decent....have used others (Raxco PerfectDisk and O&O etc), but didn't find any improvement over Vista's.....

jakspyder · 9 Sep 2008 at 11:28

Wiggins said:
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good app to use. Pretty damn fast at defraging and works well on Vista.

I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Vista defrags the drive as standard when the pc is idle.

+3

Lysander · 9 Sep 2008 at 11:30

Wiggins said:
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a good app to use. Pretty damn fast at defraging and works well on Vista.

I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Vista defrags the drive as standard when the pc is idle.

+ IV

bledd · 9 Sep 2008 at 11:44

o&o defrag

Lysander · 9 Sep 2008 at 14:59

Spoilsport.

MooMoo444 · 9 Sep 2008 at 15:26

Wiggins said:
I may be wrong but I remember reading somewhere that Vista defrags the drive as standard when the pc is idle.

Can someone confirm this? I want to know if I've been defragging my HDD for no reason at all.

ThundyCat · 9 Sep 2008 at 17:57

OLDPHART said:
I use Defraggler it,s fast and it,s free.

I have installed this and done a defrag took nearly 2 hours to finish!

Have been using Auslogics Disk Defrag which only takes about 5 mins.

Does this mean Defraggler is doing a better job because of how long it took?

jeggsy · 9 Sep 2008 at 21:45

I thought Windows defrag was a cut-down version of Diskeeper ? ? Certainly used to in 2000 & XP.

I think Vista runs a scheduled defrag.. Not had much to do with Vista yet but the couple of PC's I've played with had it set at certains times every day.

Work in an IT dept. for a living. Seeing as it's not my money, a copy of Diskeeper is on all servers and CAD workstations ! !

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