Best defragger?

HungryHippos · 10 Apr 2009 at 00:05

bigG said:
Hi All,

I'm sure this has been asked before, but in your opinion what is the best defragger program for vista.

Cheers

No problems with the standard defragger, if you run the command line version you get some more info etc

Minimoke · 10 Apr 2009 at 11:07

I love PerfectDisk, we use it at the local PC store. Brilliant program, loads of handy options.

Turtles · 10 Apr 2009 at 11:24

O&O

Defragged once and that's it - set it to auto monitor and forget about it

Kona* · 10 Apr 2009 at 11:42

If you have some cash to burn then I can highly recommend O&O. If your looking for a free program then either JK Defrag or IObit SmartDefrag are both excellent, I prefer SmartDefrag out of the two.

Juniper · 10 Apr 2009 at 11:45

Another vote for JKDefrag

Le_Petit_Lapin · 10 Apr 2009 at 11:45

Contig.

mrk · 10 Apr 2009 at 12:26

Just started using JKDefrag due to it being native 64bit and having a VERY fast screensaver (no delay between it loading and closing).

I set screensaver to load after 5mins no activity and to turn off the monitor after 10mins so system is kept in good nick all the and energy saving \m/.

Was quite fragmented too...

warren_1979 · 10 Apr 2009 at 17:37

How long does JKDefrag take to defrag?

mrk · 10 Apr 2009 at 17:47

A trillion hours.

JimAroo · 10 Apr 2009 at 18:14

warren_1979 said:
How long does JKDefrag take to defrag?

How longs a piece of sting?

SimonC · 10 Apr 2009 at 23:00

JimAroo said:
How longs a piece of sting?

Twice as long from the middle to one end

Ratbag · 11 Apr 2009 at 08:24

JimAroo said:
How longs a piece of sting?

I've never been able to get near enough to a wasp to measure it!

Raumarik · 11 Apr 2009 at 09:12

OLDPHART said:
I recommend JKDefrag it's very good the best one I've tried yet.

Link - http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

Agreed, been using it for a few months. Works great and doesn't even need installed

GolfBryan · 11 Apr 2009 at 09:41

Perfectdisk for me, works well, quick and looks not to bad.

Hen_Dawg · 11 Apr 2009 at 14:17

warren_1979 said:
How long does JKDefrag take to defrag?

Across my 1.3Tb HD's it's still going after almost 2hrs but it's the first time I've run this program

vince3 · 11 Apr 2009 at 16:12

I tried JkDefrag and must admit I didn't like the way I had no control at all. It just started on Drive C: without any options. I have two physical drives in four partitions and I know that E: is most prone to fragmentation. So I think I'll stick to Defraggler.

Nabz · 11 Apr 2009 at 16:22

can u defrag/use computer at the same time?

Hen_Dawg · 11 Apr 2009 at 16:48

Nabz said:
can u defrag/use computer at the same time?

You can but I tend to not do much more than web browsing

warren_1979 · 14 Apr 2009 at 17:28

Well I just ment in general so to speak. Some defraggers takes ages and some are super quick like Auslogic.

Hen_Dawg said:
Across my 1.3Tb HD's it's still going after almost 2hrs but it's the first time I've run this program

Cool cheers. I might try it then, only got a 120gb harddrive to defrag.

manic_man · 14 Apr 2009 at 18:16

JKDefrag + JKDefrag GUI in order to easily specify JKDefrags options (JKDefrag does have them, they are just command line), also offers an easier way to keep it up to date.

As with most of these defrag programs, they are simply using the inbuilt windows defrag library, so in reality they are nearly all doing the same "task" just with a different GUI and some slight variations of option naming etc and nicer GUIs etc.

Even the expensive ones tend to use the inbuilt defrag library, its the only truly safe way they can integrate a program of this nature within a live OS environment.