The Definitive "BEST DEFRAG" thread

[MxxCon]

i'm so sick of these threads poping up every single week. so here's the one and only thread you should need untill the end of your life. moderator can modify poll entries to update.

BEST DEFRAG

[Almighty1]

O&O here too.

[randomtask]

PerfectDisk all the way.

[Joel]

As far as I see it, O&O is the only decent one besides the Windows defragmenter...

The Windows one is Diskkeeper Lite, the pro version is good too.

[John Veteran]

i had problems with diskkeeper. it worked nice, and was pretty fast, but it screwed with my boot record too many times, which required me to take time to fix it. O&O works nicely for me. not as fast IMO, but it does a great job overall.

[Spyder Veteran]

The Windows one is Diskkeeper Lite, the pro version is good too.

true..the built-in windows one is based off diskeeper, however even Diskeeper Lite kicks its butt lol ;)

[Joel]

There's another Lite?

[Spyder Veteran]

yep! Executive software have since pulled it from their site (or so it seems) in favour of a trial version of the full deal. The Lite version was freeware, and had all its features of the Pro taken out except the ability to manually defrag. the speed was what you'd expect from the Pro version as well, so it definately kicked the built-in version's butt. lemme see if i can find a link to show you..

/edit here you go

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207

or directly.. seems like its still on Executive Softwares server.. just not linked from the site. (that i could find)

http://www1.execsoft.com/dklite.exe

[Joel]

Thanks, I'll try to remember to install it when I have no Pro on a comp. ;)

[Premgenius]

O&O Defrag

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

i tried all of them - O&O is awesome... the stealth mode is pretty good. its fast too.

[Skyfrog]

i had problems with diskkeeper. it worked nice, and was pretty fast, but it screwed with my boot record too many times

That happened to me too; I had to take my drive to another computer to rescue my files and when I did this it messed up the permissions on all of them. I had to copy all my stuff to a FAT32 partition to get it all sorted out. Anyway I swore I would never use a third party defrag utility again. :(

[morganpugh84]

the built in defragger in Windows 2000/XP is based on Diskeeper. I tried O&O Defrag and it was nice however it doesnt work as well as diskeeper (not on my system atleast).

[DOCa Cola]

i consider O&O Defrag as the best :)

[RadishTM Veteran]

Moved to Software Discussion & Assistance

Radish?

[Steven]

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?act=...29565

Please Use Search. :argh:

Oh Master Vegtable, Instead of Moving, can we please merge this (Y)

[RadishTM Veteran]

Threads Merged :happy:

Radish?

[hav0c]

Perfect disk (5.0)

[paulladle]

Built-in XP one my bottom! Damn thing won't let me Defrag my E partition because XP has marked it as dirty although it checks as OK with CHKDSK (and it refuses to clear the dirty bit after a sucessful check). Diskeeper Lite I love you and it doesn't have to run at startup either.

[Tech_8356]

Norton owns.....but if you're in XP, the Windos Defrag does a great job

[SpicyBeef]

I use the default defrag app in Windows. The built in one. Do you guys know any other apps?

[insanekiwi]

o&o defrag, fast defragger, defragmenter pro...there's alot. o&o for me. best app around.

[krmathis]

My favorite is VoptXP. :yes:

[acidic-e-]

Diskeeper / O&O / Norton (it's decent)

[RaWShadow]

PerfectDisk is one of the best. http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/

[coresx]

Diskeeper or Perfect Disk are the best imo. The default app in windows is just a slimmed down version of diskeeper I think but your are better off getting the proper version.