O&O Defrag Pro 8

[iwod]

Yes!. No april fools, they did make a Version jump from 6.5 to 8.

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O&O Defrag Pro puts fragmented files together and maximizes your system speed with performance gains of up to 200%. Offering five different defragmentation strategies to fulfill a variety of end user needs the Professional Edition is the leader in Windows defragmentation software. It has a completely renewed graphical user interface and is now fully embedded into the Microsoft Management Console.

New in O&O Defrag V8.0

    * Integration into Windows Explorer: defragment your drives directly through the Windows Explorer interface

    * Simplified interface for boot-time defragmentation

    * Defragmentation of all Windows-compatible drives including RAID systems and removable drive media (USB-Sticks, Memory-Cards etc.)

    * Improved functionality of the O&O Defrag Task Tray icon

    * Execution of Windows commands (batches) before and after defragmentation

    * Powermanagement for Notebooks

    * Five different defragmentation methods for the most optimal performance increase

    * No limits on size or number of drives or partitions

    * Screen saver mode for automated defragmentation whenever the computer is not in use

    * Only around 5% free disk space required to adequately run a defragmentation

    * O&O OneButtonDefrag for automated defragmentation with a single mouse click

    * O&O ActivityGuard to monitor and manage the O&O Defrag's load on system resources

    * Simultaneous display of multiple drives in the Cluster display mode

[iwod]

For people who uses O&O, can you tell me what is so good about it ( apart from the interface 1000x times better than Perfect Disk.)

I still don't understand ANY of there methods for defragmentation.

[Bhav]

any idea why they jumped versions?

[iwod]

any idea why they jumped versions?

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nope..... Haven't gota clue. The only thing i can think of is Perfect Disk is versoin 7 and they want to be ahead of them . ( Number wise )

[at0mican]

Looks good but OMG it's expensive, what does it really do differently than the windows defrag? End result ways, what O&O does results the same as what Windows Defrag does?

[Hurmoth]

What happened to 7.x? :huh:

[Dark Reaper]

Maybe 7 was a beta and they decided to scrap it due to technical reasons?

[Elliot B.]

Maybe 7 was a beta and they decided to scrap it due to technical reasons?

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That'd be stupid though.

[Dark Reaper]

So is this better than Perfect Disk btw?

[Hurmoth]

So is this better than Perfect Disk btw?

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I personally don't think so, but that's my opinion.

[ring0]

i've used diskeeper, perfectdisk and o&o off and on for years, so i've had a great deal of experience with multiple versions of each.

o&o wins hands-down, in my book.

[RadishTM Veteran]

I originally used O&O Defrag, but switched to Diskeeper because it defragged much quicker and was a bit more simple to use.

Radish?

[ring0]

... switched to Diskeeper because it defragged much quicker and was a bit more simple to use...

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i've found that it's quicker because it's nowhere near as thorough :x

a "stealth" or "space" defrag in o&o can be quite speedy indeed.

[cmc482]

i've used diskeeper, perfectdisk and o&o off and on for years, so i've had a great deal of experience with multiple versions of each.

o&o wins hands-down, in my book.

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Thats becuase O&O does a much more thourgh job of defrag. Plus O&O will do a boot time defrag so that it can defrag system files that are normally locked out during defrag in windows. I havn't used perfectdisk but i have used a couple of verisons of diskeeper.

Tell me if WinXPs built in defrag utility uses diskeeper technology. Why are other companies still making defrag software? Because diskeeper just doesn't cut it.

O&O wins hands down.

[RadishTM Veteran]

Diskeeper also has a boot time/paging file defrag job.

Radish?

[Slimy]

and so does perfectdisk, which imo does the best job (performance-wise NOT length of defrag)

[+Random Stranger Subscriber¹]

great news. thanks

[JakeM741]

Wow, talk about an interface improvment :o I bought v6 and i hated it, used waaay too many resources even when it wasnt being used it used around 30mb of RAM...i wonder if they fixed that :|

[iwod]

and so does perfectdisk, which imo does the best job (performance-wise NOT length of defrag)

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The answer to your question depends on what sort of performance you need. For normal Desktop it will be Perfect Disk.

On File Server, O&O may be better because it gives you the choice how to align those files in your perfer order. And that is the only strength i see with O&O.

Diskeeper is the best for Simple / Easy to use / Automated Defragment. This is good for lazy people / Noob who don't defrag the drive. The only down side is that it takes up another process sitting in your Task Manager.

PerfectDisk is best for Single Pass / and Performance. It align files in the best order for NTFS according to Microsoft. ( Who created NTFS ). On a normal Desktop, it makes no sense to align files in those 5 Methods provided by O&O.

With today computer and software usage. Hard Drive Get defraged too easily. That is why we are increasingly seeing Defragment Program doing its job in background.

And this is the answer to those who said Perfect Disk doesn't bring much performance. its because it get defrag too easily and you need to defrag again! ( I recommand once a week )

And that is the question i have always asked the O&O user, why are you using O&O ( apart from you like it ) any technical reason for it?

[JoeBonJoey]

software that skips a version will end up "SUCKY!"

ig WinAmp. :shifty:

Ima just stay w/ Windows defrag ;)

[nekrosoft13]

oh my god

finally a new version

O&O the best, rest don't even come close

[Ar3s]

O&O is definately the extreme of defragmenting. arranging by date, name or usage. wow. this was my first defrag tool after windows one just made no sense at all. :rofl:

skipping versions should mean a good thing since that means 7 wasn't worth what you have to pay for 8 now.

i am currently using perfectdisk. You are right about simple, its fast does what it suppose to but not really getting in to it. offline defrag is the same as boot time defrag unless you use SATA. smart placement and just defrag doesn't make much diff.

diskeeper is really cool with the performance meter and improvement by 20% stuff. the stats on if your harddisk needs a defrag or not is clear too. Its really too fast to do much and if i remember right there is just one method.

[iwod]

i am currently using perfectdisk. You are right about simple, its fast does what it suppose to but not really getting in to it. offline defrag is the same as boot time defrag unless you use SATA. smart placement and just defrag doesn't make much diff.

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Why is it not really getting into it? What has Offline defrag got anything to do SATA? And what do you mean by Smart placement doesn't make much difference.

[M/\TT]

Thanks for the news. Love this defrag tool!

[Ar3s]

Why is it not really getting into it? What has Offline defrag got anything to do SATA? And what do you mean by Smart placement doesn't make much difference.

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It does alot of basic movement of files only. If you noticed after your defrag of a drive without running any other programs in background there are still fragments, even the frequently modified files remain where they were.

Offline defrag with SATA in my case it allows me to dismount the drive and defrag it immediately instead of rebooting and doing boot defrag. I know its not the main harddisk but i have 3 harddisk and its the only one that does that.

Smart placement is just slightly slower, thats seriously the only thing i noticed. Maybe i'm missing the big picture of it all but i tried it back to back on 2 drives and they looked like they files were sorted but it wasn't smart. hope that answer it for you.

I just tried O&O Defrag 8. OMG. Complete By Modified is still my favourite & once a week/2weeks will do cause this will take a while in my case. :yes: