windows vista defrag

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hi

i would like to defrag my laptop hd , but i hav'nt got any program to do it apart from the vista's one , is it anygood ?

dont want to have to install any other one just wondered if windows defrager was adequate?

thanks
 
It's rubbish.

Download Auslogics instead. It takes a quarter of the time and you can actually see what it's doing.

Vista's just has a big rotating turquoise circle and the message "Degramenting - this may take a few hours". It'll get the job done but you'll pay for it in time.

As a rule, third party defraggers are better than the MS ones.
 
Lysander said:
It's rubbish.

Vista's just has a big rotating turquoise circle and the message "Degramenting - this may take a few hours". It'll get the job done but you'll pay for it in time.
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What do you mean by you'll pay for it in time? I haven't once manually asked Windows Vista to defragment my hard drive and my system is running exactly the same as when I first installed the operating system which was quite a while ago now. So, I would completely disagree with when you say its rubbish.

Windows Vista will automatically defrag your hard drives at a certain time which will have no performance hit due to the I/O prioritization in Windows Vista.

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For a comprehensive roundup of defraggers check this out. JKdefrag is probably the best basic freeware defragger, although if you want total control over what goes where on your disk get the freeware version of UltimateDefrag.
 
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the Vista defragger, unless you like to sit watching little coloured blocks being shuffled around into different patterns.

For those who say it's "rubbish," let's see some hard evidence that your third-party alternative of choice gives a measurable improvement in your system's speed...
 
gillywibble said:
It's rubbish because it's so slow.
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It's meant to be - the process runs at low priority so it interferes as little as possible with other operations, and it will automatically pause when necessary.

Why do you need it to be fast, anyway? Do you really want to just sit there watching, and do nothing else with your PC until every last file is in a single contiguous piece, like in the old days of DOS and Norton Speed Disk?

File fragmentation is a fact of life with NTFS, but it only matters if it's significantly impacting your PC's performance. Unless you're doing something very unusual with your PC, you might as well just leave the built-in tools to their own devices and get on with more important things. :)
 
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