Defragger for Vista

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devHead

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Im pretty sure that Microsoft tweaked the defragger in Longhorn Server so its more informative. I could be wrong but I swear I read this somewhere. If its true, atleast with a bit of luck, Defrag.exer will be updated with Vista SP1.

Yeah, I have Longhorn Server and it is more informative and more flexible. For example, if you want to defrag only one volume or partition you can select it alone.

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marc2003

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i use powerdefragmentergui which is a frontend for sysinternals' contig.exe

http://www.excessive-software.eu.tt/

http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/Contig.zip

you can defrag whole drives, folders or even just single files. still no fancy chart to look at though.... :p

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Linkinfamous

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Yeah I noticed that the defragger in Vista is actually good, I just wish it had a nice block graph that I could look at.

It doesn't make any sense to have the graph or to show progress with Vista's defragging algorithm. As I understand it, it does one pass, then decides whether or not to go again, so it doesn't have any clue as to how long its going to take until its done.

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UncleSpellbinder

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The past several threads of this nature that have popped up I've mentioned Auslogics Disk Defrag?>. My opinion has not changed. Aside from the price (free), it is a magnificent app.

Auslogics Disk Defrag?[/b]b>

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jake1eye

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Awesome mate!! Thanx:)

Any chance for a clear resent, temp and Defrag only disk C as well?

Thanx again!

Sure no problem here is the script to clear recent,temp and defrag c drive only.

Save As SysMaintence_C_Only.vbs

 Const MY_RECENT_DOCUMENTS = &H8&
 Dim Arg1, ColItems, File, GB, ObjItem, StrF, StrFItem, strComputer, Var1
  strComputer = "." 
 Dim Shell :Set Shell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
 Dim Act   :Set Act = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
 Dim Fso   :Set Fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
 Dim Wmi   :Set Wmi = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
  Set StrF = Shell.Namespace(MY_RECENT_DOCUMENTS)
  Set StrFItem = StrF.Self
  Set ColItems = StrF.Items
'/-> Clear Recent List 
   If ColItems.Count = 0 Then
	Act.Popup "Recent is Empty, Nothing To Delete",3,"Clear Recent",4128
   Else 
	Act.Popup "Preparing To Clean Up The Recent Folder",3,"Clear Recent",4128
   For Each ObjItem in ColItems
	Set Arg1 = Fso.GetFile(ObjItem.Path)
	Arg1.Delete()
   Next
  End If 
'/-> Clears User Tmp Folder
  Set Var1 = Fso.GetFolder(Fso.GetSpecialFolder(2))
  Set File = Var1.Files 
  Act.Popup "Preparing To Clean Up User Temp" & vbCrLf & Var1.Path,3,Var1.Name,4128 
  For Each StrF In File
   If InStr(StrF.Name,".bmp") Then 
	Else 
	 Set Arg1 = Fso.GetFile(StrF.Path) 
	 On Error Resume Next 
	Arg1.Delete()
   End If 
  Next
'/-> Defrag All Drives
  GB = Int(1073741824)
  Set ColItems = Wmi.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_LogicalDisk",,48) 
  For Each ObjItem in ColItems 
   If ObjItem.DriveType = 3 Then 
'/-> Defrag C Drive Only 
	If InStr(ObjItem.Caption,"C") Or InStr(ObjItem.Caption,"c") Then 
	 Var1 = objItem.Size - objItem.FreeSpace
	 Act.Popup "Preparing To Defrag This Drive" & vbCrLf &_
	 Space(3) & "Drive Letter"& vbTab & ObjItem.Caption & vbCrLf &_
	 Space(3) & "Volume Name" & vbTab & objItem.VolumeName & vbCrLf &_
	 Space(3) & "Total Size" & vbTab & FormatNumber(objItem.Size/GB,2) & " GB" & vbCrLf &_
	 Space(3) & "Free Space" & vbTab & FormatNumber(objItem.FreeSpace/GB,2) & " GB" & vbCrLf &_
	 Space(3) & "Used Space" & vbTab & FormatNumber(Var1/GB,2) & " GB", 3,"Defrag",4128
	 Act.Run("Defrag.exe " & ObjItem.Caption &"\"),2,True 
	End If 
   End If 
  Next
  Act.Popup "Finished The Defrag",7,"Finshed Defrag",4128
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rseiler

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That's a good find, thanks. I think the first item mentioned alone is a good argument to continue with what's built in.

Also, it doesn't bother me so much that Defrag is Spartan, since defrag really is a scheduled task at heart. Who wants to be around when it's happening? Vista's built-in scheduler defaults to defragging all drives though, which not everyone's going to want. To change it:

1) Search your Start menu for "Sched..."

2) Once in Task Scheduler, find the Defrag task in the Microsoft/Windows section.

3) Click on ScheduledDefrag and bring up its Properties.

4) Go to the Actions and edit the arguments section as appropriate.

The "-c" switch is the one that means "all volumes," so I got rid of that and replaced it with "c:" for just that drive. So the arguments read:

c: -i

("-i" just means that it won't activate if it's seen recent user activity)

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bradavon

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Personally I'd still like a progress bar even if it's not fully accurate. I don't see the point having it running while I'm using the computer. I am pleased to see scheduling Defrag is back the XP one (which had an awful interface) had no scheduler, even though the 9x one does.

It's good to see it no longer tries to defrag to 100% as that's ultimately pointless and hard to achieve anyway. I used to run Diskeeper under XP and while it's excellent for Home Users it's really overkill. Servers fine but Home Users it's not necessary. A modern hard disk really shouldn't get that fragmented anyway. It also ran in the background all the time which I really wasn't too keen on.

I say stick with Vista's, choose a suitable schedule (mine is set for Sunday's at 6am) and forget about it.

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kiddingguy

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OO Software just released version 10 of their software; see http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/

Anyone already has some experience with this version 10 on Vista (Ultimate) 32 bit?

Or is PerfectDisk 8 "da thing to have installed on Vista"?

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MrBear5587

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Yes, I've been using OOs v10 all day. It's pretty good.

Although whats strange is this. I had PerfectDisk 8 installed, defragged all drives. Uninstalled and installed OO 10.

Analysis showed a worrying 33% fragmentation on the Windows drive, which had just been thoroughly defragged with PerfectDisk.

So I did a COMPLETE/Name defrag with OO, and the fragmentation % wouldn't go below 27.

Thinking this may be due to locked files, I did an offline defrag also, but it had no effect.

I can't seem to achieve 0% fragmentation with it.

I'll probably stick with PerfectDisk.

  • 2 weeks later...
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UncleSpellbinder

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Does anyone know of a defragger that stresses how well it actually defrags the drive? I really don't care about how long it takes(well no more than 12 hours for 60 GB of data). I just 0% of defragmentation!!!

See post at to of this page.

  • 5 weeks later...
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Ed Szuba

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I've been using DK (Diskeeper) since Win98, so that was my first choice on the new laptop with Vista. I got DK2007 for it and my desktop (still on XP). It works great on the desktop, but for some reason there are a couple files on the laptop that it can never defrag. There's even times where they don't show up. They have some type of CLSID for the file name, but it's so long you can't read it all in the display (see attachments). Any other DK user see this happening?

Because of this, I was looking at the Auslogic one to try out. I saw a couple people mention that here. With the past history of the default defragger, I didn't want to try that one. Has anyone else tried multiple ones before going with the one they selected in their post?

Many thanks,

Ed S.

Vista_fragments.doc

Vista_fragments_2.doc

Edited by Ed Szuba
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Pikey

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I just use the built-in defragger running at 02:00 everyday when I'm asleep! ... good enough for me ..

I'm not bothered about all the bells and whistles ... as for watching the pretty bar charts (meaningless IMHO) ... whats the point in that!, I've got better things to do with my time ...

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bjoswald

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I think you should stick with the built-in defragmenter. It's unintrusive and almost completely automatic. Why would you want to sit there and watch your drives being defragmented? You could also use Task Scheduler to automate Disk Cleanup. Seamless, automatic and free.

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