Which defragmentation software do you use?

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Hi guys. Just wondering what defragmentation software do you guys use, and why do you prefer it over the others?

I am thinking of moving over to defraggler, as its free and seems to do a good job. Any reasons not to use this? Would Diskeeper or Perfect Disk be much better? Any of you guys tried it yet?

Note I dont like auto defrag or like it to work in the background. I like to manually defrag when I want to.

Cheers
 
I use none, well the one that comes with vista runs when I don’t use the PC so maybe that counts as one. Don’t see the point in buying a defragment program personally.
 
O&O Defrag, it can do a couple of disks at once, and also sits in my system tray auto-defragging all the time, so my disk is nice and tidy.
 
Fothsn said:
I use none, well the one that comes with vista runs when I don’t use the PC so maybe that counts as one. Don’t see the point in buying a defragment program personally.
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You don't have to buy one, there are some good free ones available that are still much better than the Windows one.

Personally, I use Perfectdisk. I don't bother with any of the schedule stuff, but its SmartPlacement thing seems very effective.
 
Defraggler on mine and brothers pc, versatile and fast.

I defrag once every day and a full system defrag every 2 weeks, takes no time at all! :D
 
TheVoice said:
You don't have to buy one, there are some good free ones available that are still much better than the Windows one.

Personally, I use Perfectdisk. I don't bother with any of the schedule stuff, but its SmartPlacement thing seems very effective.
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Yeah I suppose there are plenty of free ones about, I don’t see any noticable improvements though? I consider myself an above average PC user, I do a bit of PS, HD encoding, gaming etc, and whenever I have used a defragment tool in the past I cannot see any differences at all? That’s the reason I personally don’t bother and use the Vista one does built into the OS.
 
I've used Perfect Disk in the past, because the way it works sounds clever and like it will make a noticeable difference - but it never did so now I don't bother with any. If anyone can produce independent benchmarks which show any improvement in Windows or application loading times after using one of these programs I'll be surprised.
 
Decided to split from Diskeeper on my old XP rig and moved initially to Auslogics free Defrag software. Liked the product and have now bought the full package Auslogics Boostspeed 4.2 which runs like a dream on my new Vista 64 setup.
 
I have tried a few with Vista, O&O, PerfectDisk, Defraggler, and one or two other free ones, but don't find any improvement over the one that is standard in Vista, so just use that...
 
dirtydog said:
I've used Perfect Disk in the past, because the way it works sounds clever and like it will make a noticeable difference - but it never did so now I don't bother with any. If anyone can produce independent benchmarks which show any improvement in Windows or application loading times after using one of these programs I'll be surprised.
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I can't produce benchmarks, but I do know for a fact that, after installing a game, it loads quicker after I've defragged. Windows also tends to loads a little bit quicker, but the most noticeable improvement is always in game load times, in my experience.
 
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