vista defragging

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hummm i dont like this vista defrag :( firstly because it doesnt show you whats going on :( i liked the xp GUI where it showed the scatter, or even the mellinum one where it showed it running through the blocks :D also gave to a rough estimate of how long it had left...

but this vista one has none of that just "may take a few mins or hours" any more specific? nope it just turns its nose up and spins that stupid little blue thing :mad: GRRRRR lol

also its been running for about an hour now :( is said my performance was good but i did it anyway and ive noticed that the spare space on my HDD has dropped from 244GB to 235GB :eek: wtf?! wheres that 9gig gone?!

is that normal for when its moving stuff about, because it was running earlier but we had a power cut (stupid cooker) so did that make it worse?! ahhh i dunnooo :( just bit meh that its taking so long
 
It is, I am afraid, a typical MS flaw. If you were to look at the size of your pagefile before you Defragmented you would know instantly where it had gone.
Vista uses the Swapfile or pagefile for moving Data to and from the the Hard disk. You may also notice this when downloading files and you have selected the destination as another drive for the download. You may rigorously empty your temp cache folders after downloads but the pagefile store the history and you still lose several MB per download or at least 50mb per GB. swap space. a common problem with server 2003 which has been passed across to Vista.
The only way to restrict this is to tell Vista what size you want the swap file to be instead of Vista telling you what it wants to do.
 
The vista defrag is a low i/o one you're just supposed to leave it and it runs in the background when nothing else is running. As for using a third party one its all pointless, you really don't need them.
The disk space will be shadow copies and sys restore. It will use upto 15% of your drive. Your better off having vista on a smaller partition.
To free some space, type disk cleanup in the startbox>files from all users>more options>click cleanup under system restore and shadow copies
 
As for using a third party one its all pointless, you really don't need them.
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OO can defrag multiple drives simataneously. Can Vista?
OO can ignore files/directories. Can Vista?
OO can defrag in various modes (structure) and naming. Can Vista?

No.
 
badbob said:
OO can defrag multiple drives simataneously. Can Vista?
OO can ignore files/directories. Can Vista?
OO can defrag in various modes (structure) and naming. Can Vista?

No.
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lol calm down, i'm not saying vistas is better. all defrags are pointless these days.
 
Vimes said:
http://www.disktrix.com/UDDescription.htm

ULTIMATEDEFRAG - Defragger and Hard Drive File Placement Optimizer

seems impressive :)
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Unfortunately, it really isn't. The benefits only show up if you bypass all the buffering and optimisation designed to ensure you don't need to do what this program does.

It's an interesting idea, but it's already been engineered around long before Vista, sort of like improving the handling of a car to do a stretch of backroad when there's a bit of motorway covering the same journey and pretending the motorway doesn't exist in the sales pitch.
 
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I've been using Auslogics Disk Defrag for the last couple of months, it's free and rather good too.
 
Well i use perfect disk 2008 which does boot time defraggles and everything on Vista 64

On another machine i use Auslogics Disk Defrag which is free and just does a basic defrag, no boot time

I cant tell a difference with either in terms of performance, games load up the same as each other , Windows starts the same I would save money and time and get a free option or use windows default
 
I don't have to worry about it in VistaSP1 since it's autoscheduled for a regular defrag at 6am each day. no performance issues and no need to install 3rd party software.

I guess the reason to vista defragger being "minimal" is because previously people just forgot to defrrag and were not using it effectively and in Vista MS decided to eep it low profile and run as a background schedule instead so users don't need tow worry about it.

On top of that by default Vista will optimised the disk when the system is idle.
 
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