Definitive Best Defragmenter 2011

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

An updated "Best Defragmenter" poll for 2011. Please use this as a reference when researching Defrag utilities. As time goes on, the poll can be updated to add further options.

Happy Voting!

[devnulllore]

I tried Auslogics and IObits Smartdefrag 2. Auslogics seemed to do a great job, was fast and low on resources. Smart Defrag was about the same but Smart defrag has a boot time defragger to defrag the MFT, Boot and Pagefile. Also Smartdefrag did the drive in 2 sections, first it defragged then it consolidated and put, what the doc I could find says, files that have been used in the last 30 days in front of all the others on the drive. PerfectDisk does this too but fails to do it and defrag properly every time. I read Puran does all the above too but faster and less resources and it adds a context menu to defrag from the drive icon. I will try this one next.

And yes, I have used Windows Defrag and it is quite good. Maybe in the long run I will end up with that. I just wish it had some kind of graphical view of the drive as it worked.

[Aergan]

MyDefrag

[devnulllore]

Hi,

Hy wife recently did her free upgrade to Windows 7 and is in love with it. She hates the built in defragger though and bought, against my better judgement, Raxco's PerfectDisk 12. She says she is used to it since she used to use 11, never had a problem with it, it does not seem to impact her performance and keeps her hard drive in good shape., well whatever works for you I say.

She is a little confused about some setting though and she was going to email Raxco support but I think once you read the question we all know what they would say. Even though I used to use version 11 I never played with the defaults. In the default settings under "Boot files and Windows Prefetch Optimization" it gives you 4 choices:

1) PerfectDIsk manages boot files (recommended)

2) PerfectDisk manages boot and prefetch files

3) Windows manages boot and prefetch files

4) Disable

I suggested to let Windows deal with the boot and prefetch files but she wanted me to post here and get the opinions of others who use PerfectDisk, or those more familiar with how Windows handles boot and prefetch files.

What's the best way to go?

[devnulllore]

Hi,

Hy wife recently did her free upgrade to Windows 7 and is in love with it. She hates the built in defragger though and bought, against my better judgement, Raxco's PerfectDisk 12. She says she is used to it since she used to use 11, never had a problem with it, it does not seem to impact her performance and keeps her hard drive in good shape., well whatever works for you I say.

She is a little confused about some setting though and she was going to email Raxco support but I think once you read the question we all know what they would say. Even though I used to use version 11 I never played with the defaults. In the default settings under "Boot files and Windows Prefetch Optimization" it gives you 4 choices:

1) PerfectDIsk manages boot files (recommended)

2) PerfectDisk manages boot and prefetch files

3) Windows manages boot and prefetch files

4) Disable

I suggested to let Windows deal with the boot and prefetch files but she wanted me to post here and get the opinions of others who use PerfectDisk, or those more familiar with how Windows handles boot and prefetch files.

What's the best way to go?

NM she's just going to go with all the defaults.

Thanks,

[Ntrstd]

I use MyDefrag (Win XP). It's fast and has a variety of scripts (I usually use Consolidate Free Space). It's easy to use and shows plenty of detail. It shows unmovable blocks, Reserved space and MFT. It works fine with external USB hard drives and memory sticks. And it's free.

UltraDefrag is not bad either.

http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/

I used to use DefragNT (doesn't appear to have updated since 2004):

http://andreigaceff.tripod.com/DefragNT.html