Vista's Defrag blows

[skunksmash]

JK DEFRAG.....

great, simple, quick...

i dont entertain the vista defragger either...i think the idea of having it run in the background & using hardly any resources were its downfall

good in theory ...bad in practice

 

[swarfega]

try Defrag Disk Defragment | IObit Smart Defrag | Disk Defragmenter | Free Defrag Programs, Defragment Software and Tool, its not bad!

 

[zone23]

The thing is that its not all about "how fast I can defrag" it about the quality of the defrag. Some of these free programs are great if you just want a quick defrag and you want to see a pretty picture, but they are certainly not doing the same work as windows defrag. For instance, the built in version optimizes how shadow copy files are arranged. So don't kid your self thinking oh its slow and this sucks, ya its slow because its moving programs around on your hard drive not just moving bits of files around. I believe some of these programs like diskkeeper also rearranges programs so they start faster (moves them to the edge of the disk).

 

[SovietCommissar]

I'll have to agree (after reading only the first page) that Auslogics is really fast, reasonably effective, and free. I've used O&O, Paragon, and Raxco PerfectDisk - the last one is comparably quick and can also defragment system files, and will tell you when you need to. Now, though, I use a combination of Paragon and O&O - the first when the system is very severely in need of a block-by-block defragment, including the MFT (be VERY careful with this - in the event of a power failure, you're in serious trouble), and the latter just to tune up while I work or while the screensaver runs.

Paragon doesn't really tell you what it's doing while it does it, just gives you a simple progress bar, but O&O has an extremely comprehensive and interactive cluster-by-cluster display in case that's your think. Either is plenty to take care of your system, but for some reason I like having both.