Defrag Question . . .

[SeaJay Fortune]

When Defragging Hard Drive is it recommended to do a "Boot-Time" Defrag
prior to ... or after a Standard Routine Defrag?

Thanks for any recommendation!
SeaJay

 

[Communikator]

Seriously - anytime when defragmenting a drive maintained by Vista is
recommended to do it with any software but Vista Defragmenter. I got all red
lines showing up in the Windows 2000 Defragmenter on the Vista system drive
and it still reports some 40% fragmented files - after a routine, scheduled
defragmentation run by Vista (the non-system drives were looking just as
"defragmented" as the system one, anyway)

 

[SeaJay Fortune]

First run a comprehensive manual defrag, then run boot-time defrag, and
after reboot, turn on automatic defrag. Autodefrag will take handle all
the fragmentation that arises in the future, automatically. This is the
procedure for third party defraggers..I haven't used Vista's own tool in
a while, so I don't recall where the settings for the boot-time defrag
are..(could be a registry edit)

Also Vista's autodefrag is not that great, but it's definitely far
better than nothing, and better than a manual defrag

Thank You for your time and recommendation...

SeaJay