Defrag program?

Caracortada_uk · 17 Jan 2008 at 11:56

Hi all, just wondering what defrag program is best. I used to use the one built into System Mechanic but ive stopped using that as the latest version is far too bloated. Also im having odd problems with Diskeeper 2008, its bloody slow, slow as in it speeds to 48% then takes 12 hours to do the next 10% - im thinking a code problem with quad cores. So Diskeeper is being kept boot time only and using UltraDefrag for the rest, however ultra defrag just doesnt seem to do the job. Games are taking a good while to load up now, slowly getting worse since i stopped using System Mechanic. What do we recommend then? Please dont recommend anything Symentec

knowledge123 · 17 Jan 2008 at 12:06

JK defrag as it won the great shootout award, JK Defrag organizes data the best during defragmentation, is amazingly quick and has a screensaver option.

bledd · 17 Jan 2008 at 12:15

o&o defrag is considered one of the best, it's not free but i'd never turn back now

version 10 works in 2000, xp, 2003, vista, 2008 there are 32bit and 64bit ones out too

FooAtari · 17 Jan 2008 at 13:37

knowledge123 said:
JK defrag as it won the great shootout award, JK Defrag organizes data the best during defragmentation, is amazingly quick and has a screensaver option.

+1

nin9abadga · 17 Jan 2008 at 16:45

cool i was aobut to ask this same question. i used to use Diskeeper 9, found it really good but of course it isn't compatable with Vista. i'm gonna try that JK Defrag - looks good. thanks!

gary996 · 17 Jan 2008 at 16:48

Perfect disk 8 here and love it. Version 9 is due out soonish

GuruJockStrap · 17 Jan 2008 at 17:12

Another vote for JK Defrag. Used Perfect Disk, Diskeeper and O&O Defrag in the past and JK Defrag is just as good. Best of all, its completely free.

Greenlizard0 · 17 Jan 2008 at 17:19

knowledge123 said:
JK defrag as it won the great shootout award, JK Defrag organizes data the best during defragmentation, is amazingly quick and has a screensaver option.

+2

Erm, yeap, it totally does the job. Has anybody here ever tried using the screen saver version?

NVIDIA_x64 · 17 Jan 2008 at 17:43

bledd. said:
o&o defrag is considered one of the best, it's not free but i'd never turn back now

version 10 works in 2000, xp, 2003, vista, 2008 there are 32bit and 64bit ones out too

+1

knowledge123 · 17 Jan 2008 at 18:36

Greenlizard0 said:
+2

Erm, yeap, it totally does the job. Has anybody here ever tried using the screen saver version?

afaik, It's exactly the same as the normal, and you can set it so that once the defrag has finished it goes onto another screensaver of your choice.

Deleted member 64478 · 17 Jan 2008 at 18:42

Whats up with the built in one?

Andr3w1984

Duke · 17 Jan 2008 at 19:15

Whats up with the built in one?

Andr3w1984

These often have more features and will do a better/quicker job.

yaboy · 17 Jan 2008 at 19:41

Used to use PerfectDisk.. now I just use Defraggler, then I use JKDefrag to 'touch-up'

Azagoth · 17 Jan 2008 at 19:53

I use the Contig.exe with the Power Defragmentor GUI. It does what it says, just defrags and pretty quickly too.

Bane · 18 Jan 2008 at 07:40

I use Auslogics Defrag. Seems fairly quick, and pleasing interface.

Tried Defraggler initial release and it took ages in comparison.

Not tried any of the others mentioned already. Might look at JK Defrag.

Senture · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:36

NVIDIA_x64 said:
+1

+1 aswell. The improvments it makes on my lappy is impressive

Aod · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:40

Bane said:
I use Auslogics Defrag. Seems fairly quick, and pleasing interface.

Tried Defraggler initial release and it took ages in comparison.

Not tried any of the others mentioned already. Might look at JK Defrag.

There's a new release of Defraggler which is muchos fast, and works on 64bit systems.

markyb · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:43

bledd. said:
o&o defrag is considered one of the best, it's not free but i'd never turn back now

version 10 works in 2000, xp, 2003, vista, 2008 there are 32bit and 64bit ones out too

Agreed, Never looked back. Great program.

TheVoice · 18 Jan 2008 at 10:48

I use PerfectDisk. Works very well, much prefer it to Diskeeper and O&O, myself.

MarcLister · 18 Jan 2008 at 11:57

Azagoth said:
I use the Contig.exe with the Power Defragmentor GUI. It does what it says, just defrags and pretty quickly too.

Same same.

However it doesn't analyse the disks for you and I've nlite'd the XP defrag tool out so I've got no way of seeing if the disks actually need a defrag.

Do any of these tools, free or otherwise, analyse the disk(s) for you and tell you if you need to defrag them?

Defrag program?

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