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The Definitive "BEST DEFRAG" thread


The Definitive "BEST DEFRAG"  

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  1. 1. The Definitive "BEST DEFRAG"

    • Windows Built-in
      195
    • Diskeeper
      289
    • O&O Defrag
      162
    • VoptXP/Me/Etc.
      19
    • Norton Speeddisk
      58
    • Perfect Disk
      136
    • Other
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I like O&O because I can select all my partitions at once and simply hit DEFRAG and it will defrag them one-by-one - DK, Defrag in Windows,SpeedDisk (older versions allowed this but the Norton Utilies have very much degraded in quality in the past 3 years) were stupid enough to only let me select one disk partition at a time! I want to defrag my HDD when I want, I don't like the crap like Set-it and Forget-it that defrags when it likes.. :)

As for speed, Defrag 4 Windows seems the slowest, followed by Speed Disk and then O&O and DK - it took O&O 5 hrs for a full DEFRAG/NAME on my 80 GB HDD with average fragmentation of 16 % per volume...

My vote therefore goes to the amazing O&O 6.0 build 609 ;)

john

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I tried O&O 6 after using 4 for about a year. I am pretty disappointed with it so far. It seems to take longer to defrag, and also seems a little buggy to me. It doesn't seem to defrag files as well as the older v4. It keeps locking files and those files haven't gotten defragged yet after using it for about a week now. The boot defrag is now different, and it only comes up when you have scheduled a defrag and then enable the boot defrag option. I for one, actually liked it when it defragged my locked files at every boot.

I like the change in the GUI, but I would rather them not change as much as they did with the funciontality of the software. The scheduling options are pretty nice though. Maybe they will offer a patch or update in the future.

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diskeeper - fast but has bad rep for making sys unbootable after boot defrag, twice my system had error at boot but it didnt stick so i was lucky.

o&o - has good rep but when i tried the latest version not only does the gui need a lot of cpu it also takes a long time to defrag a very long time, it even takes 20 mins just to analyze, something wrong there.

perfect disk - the best so far in my book, good options and excellent speed.

windows defrag - too many restarts.

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"OO took 4 hours to finish defragging my drive....compared to 15 minutes with dk"

If speed that defrag completes is the determining factor, then I can create a defrag program that will finish running in less than 1 minute. That would make it the absolute king of defragmenters. Of course, it may only defrag 1 file each time it runs and not consolidate free space, but speed is king :)

- Greg/Raxco Software

Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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Well, I am thinking about going back to v4 of O&O Defrag. v6 keeps locking files that it thinks are still in use even after a reboot. These files include downloads in my shareaza folder. v4 had no problems defragging those. The new ver just seems buggy to me.

Does anyone know if it's possible to make it do a space or one of the full defrags on boot? It only seems to be able to do a stealth defrag on boot. Yes I know stealth goes much quicker, but it will not defrag the files that are locked during a windows session it seems. Also, the new ver no longer defrags folders on FAT32 volumes like it used to in v4 either.

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Windows Built In Rulezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :cool: :cool: :cool:

i dont know about the other but Diskeeper is a very big ****

it screwd my computer ( although it was my old computer , my server computer but nevermind) i love the built in too :D

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