Defrag in Vista

Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:54

Ok, so I know how to do it

but you don't seem to get a progress bar ?

Is it worth using a different program rather than the inbuilt vista one?

Craig321 · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:57

Did you not know that people don't care about the progress of their defrags!?

Vista has a schedule set for defragging - it was set to 01:00 every Wednesday, so I turned it off

I've been using PerfectDisk for ages now set on screensaver defrag - I highly recommend it.

knowledge123 · 9 Apr 2008 at 16:58

This linky has a lot of good advice.

I use JKDefrag, fast, free and effective.

Greenlizard0 · 9 Apr 2008 at 17:15

JKDefrag was supposed to be the best out of the free ones, but for some reason it keeps crashing upon starting in Vista64. Very Strange. I now use Power Defragmentator.

Greenlizard0 · 9 Apr 2008 at 17:16

Greenlizard0 said:
JKDefrag was supposed to be the best out of the free ones, but for some reason it keeps crashing upon starting in Vista64. Very Strange. I now use Power Defragmentator.

No I'm an idiot.

Black Dragon · 9 Apr 2008 at 17:28

Using O&O defrag here, works wonders.

Rainmaker · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:40

Defraggler is an excellent new product from the people who created CCleaner. It's still beta, but works brilliantly - it's also super quick

XP, Vista (x86 and x86_64) - all fine. Give it a go.

Adrianr · 9 Apr 2008 at 18:53

Using Auslogics Defragger here on Vista 64 with no problems. Simple, fast. Helped me locate a pesky CS3 scratchdisk file that didn't delete too.

adbp1 · 9 Apr 2008 at 19:17

windows defrag is slow and i never found it that good, although i heard vista has been improved, i use perfect disk have done for a few years now.

Dark_Angel · 9 Apr 2008 at 19:46

Trying out defraggler at the moment

Seems ok so far

dazz25 · 9 Apr 2008 at 20:24

Auslogics Defragger gets a big thumbs up from me on Vista 64