I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear by
Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power Defragmenter
3.0".

Question:
Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag utility as
far as speeding things up?

Thanks.

Jeff

>I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear by
>Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power Defragmenter
>3.0".
>
>Question:
>Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag utility as
>far as speeding things up?

I would probably not swear by them so much as at them. JKDefrag, the
last one you'll ever need and it's free and performance tuned by a
programmer very adept at squeezing blood from stones.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote:

>>I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear by
>>Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power Defragmenter
>>3.0".
>>
>>Question:
>>Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag utility as
>>far as speeding things up?
>
>I would probably not swear by them so much as at them. JKDefrag, the
>last one you'll ever need and it's free and performance tuned by a
>programmer very adept at squeezing blood from stones.

The newest freebie on the block is Smart Defrag. Try it... you'll
like it.

Diskeeper without the cash payout.

Richie Hardwick

Jeff

Defragmenting only contributes a limited amount to improved performance
so if a third party defragmenter makes any difference it is so marginal
it is hardly worth the effort. You can eliminate much claimed for a
third party defragmenter by better organisation of files on the drive.
Defragmenting is also only one component of good housekeeping.

--



Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear
> by Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power
> Defragmenter 3.0".
>
> Question:
> Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag
> utility as far as speeding things up?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff

>The newest freebie on the block is Smart Defrag. Try it... you'll
>like it.
>
>Diskeeper without the cash payout.
>
>Richie Hardwick

SmartDefrag has nothing but negative things said about it on betanews.
Aulogic's defrag is on par with JK.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

> I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear
> by Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power
> Defragmenter 3.0".
>
> Question:
> Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag
> utility as far as speeding things up?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff

Not in my experience, at least. XP's defrag seems to always beat the
others for speed; and nothing is very fast if the amount of
fragmentation has gotten very high although XP's defrag keeps its lead
over others. I think that's because it's straight-forward, without
bells & whistles the 3rd party stuff provides like segmenting areas of
the disk for certain types of data, etc..

OTOH, regardless of which you use, defragging more often will make them
all relatively faster because there is less work to do as a rule.
Depending on what I'm doing I defrag once or twice a month and that
seems to always have reasonable times. But if I've been doing large
scale video editing/rendering, then that particular drive gets defragged
between every session because that sort of thing creates and deletes
files like crazy and the defrag need becomes readily apparent and grows
quickly otherwise until it can take several hours to complete.

Try defragging more often until you reach a point that seems reasonable
to you, and you'll likely be able to figure out a more opportune time
between defrags.

Regards,

Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote:

>>The newest freebie on the block is Smart Defrag. Try it... you'll
>>like it.
>>
>>Diskeeper without the cash payout.
>>
>>Richie Hardwick
>
>SmartDefrag has nothing but negative things said about it on betanews.

Cite what you are claiming.

If you are talking about user reviews - which go back a couple of
years - they are mixed with plenty in the 4/5 and 5/5 area. Hardly
"nothing but negative things said".

Richie Hardwick

>Cite what you are claiming.
>
>If you are talking about user reviews - which go back a couple of
>years - they are mixed with plenty in the 4/5 and 5/5 area. Hardly
>"nothing but negative things said".
>
>Richie Hardwick

Yes, it does have a 4/5 and one 5/5 recently, overall it has a 3.6
rating, not so great. It's possibly subjective and some people give
stupid ratings to give stupid ratings, no objective review. I've tried
a dozen or so freebies, I like what JK does and how it's been coded.

- Thee Chicago Wolf

"(E-Mail Removed)" wrote:

> I know XP has a built-in disk defragmenter. Many of my friends swear by
> Raxco's "PerfectDisk". Others have mentioned the free "Power Defragmenter
> 3.0".
>
> Question:
> Is PD or any free defragmenter better than XP's built-in defrag utility as
> far as speeding things up?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>

I have Diskeeper 2008 Professional. It was recommended to me by the IT guys
at work, and it's a slick program. It defrags the drives that the windows
defragger could not, and what's more it defrags them automatically in the
background. All the drives in the desktop are fragmentation free, and I never
have to run a defrag

Thee Chicago Wolf <.@.> wrote:

>>Cite what you are claiming.
>>
>>If you are talking about user reviews - which go back a couple of
>>years - they are mixed with plenty in the 4/5 and 5/5 area. Hardly
>>"nothing but negative things said".
>>
>>Richie Hardwick
>
>Yes, it does have a 4/5 and one 5/5 recently, overall it has a 3.6
>rating, not so great. It's possibly subjective and some people give
>stupid ratings to give stupid ratings, no objective review. I've tried
>a dozen or so freebies, I like what JK does and how it's been coded.
>
>- Thee Chicago Wolf

The 3.6 covers a lot of reviews of beta versions.

I don't like JK. I like Auslogics and SmartDefrag. I use the latter
on my notebook, but Diskeeper on the desktop.

Richie Hardwick