Popcorned1 Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 (edited) What is Dirms? Dirms stands for Do It Right Microsoft. Dirms is a command line hard drive defragmenter, it has no bulky gui and runs in the background with no interfence at all. It makes a much better job then any other defragmenter i've seen but so many people have not heard of this. You have now! Download You can download dirms here. Download How to Use Dirms is easier than i thought it would be. Simply download the exe file and place it into the root of the c:\ drive. 1 : Start - Run - Type "cmd" without quotes. 2 : Now type "cd c:\" That changes our directory to the c drive. 3 : The help file for dirms can be found by typing this command "dirms /?" 4 : To defragment my c drive I would type the following "dirms c -q" Press enter and watch it go. The -q switch means to move the file fast. Well thats my guide on dirms. Other switches and functions can be found with dirms /? I hope you love the big performance gain at the end, I certainly did! dirms <drive letter> [DEFRAG, COMPACT, COMFRAG <filename>, MOVE] [-q] [COMFRAG PARAMS = filename] [MOVE PARAMS = LCN, DATE] -q means do it quickly, don't wait until the free space bitmap is updated. BLUE - the command Black - the explanation dirms c -q : Do free space evaluation, defragment, and quickly move files to the front of the drive dirms c DEFRAG -q : Defragment files only dirms c CoMpAcT -q : C ompact only dirms c COMFRAG -q : Perform partial compaction (quickly) on all fragmented files dirms c COMFRAG c:\filename.exe : Perform partial compaction on one file dirms c move date -q : Move files according to modification dates, and do it quickly dirms c move lcn : Try to free space at the bottom of the drive (moves files toward the front of the drive) Edited February 21, 2006 by Popcorned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMe Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 Gonna try this right now, sounds great ! Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Veteran Posted February 21, 2006 Veteran Share Posted February 21, 2006 There is no way in hell I would trust a random EXE file posted on a public forum to defragment my files. God only knows who wrote it or how much they know about programming, algorithms, file systems, or any other relative topic. Why is there a "slow mode"? :huh: Every feature or "mode" of any software application has its pros and cons; there must be some pros to this slow mode that the fast mode doesn't have... What are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jake1eye Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 This is the VBS script I use to defrg all my hard drives, it uses the built in MS defrag, I have it set to be min size. Const Hidden = 0, Normal = 1, Min = 2, Max =3 Dim Act : Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell") Dim Fso : Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Dim Df : Set Df = Fso.Drives For Each strDf in Df If strDf.DriveType = 2 Then Act.Run("Defrag " & strDf & "\ -F"),Min,True End If Next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorned1 Posted February 21, 2006 Author Share Posted February 21, 2006 Heres the documentation, It's working with Windows Xp Sp2 and has no issues. http://www.dirms.com/home/docs/dirms_help.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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