Defrag Utilities?

[Dave Gillingham]

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free space & page
file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for a number of years, but
its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented files scattered over C, as well as
leaving the free space in even more of a mess than The Microsoft utility. It
also leaves sundry chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be nice, but
efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.
Dave Gillingham

 

[MAP]

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free
space & page file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for
a number of years, but its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented
files scattered over C, as well as leaving the free space in even
more of a mess than The Microsoft utility. It also leaves sundry
chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be
nice, but efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.
Dave Gillingham
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This will work for your pagefile.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

Defragger
http://www.diskeeperlite.com/

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Personally i use Raxco Perfectdisk. Using the offline option will defrag
pagefile etc.

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[Kerry Brown]

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free
space & page file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for
a number of years, but its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented
files scattered over C, as well as leaving the free space in even
more of a mess than The Microsoft utility. It also leaves sundry
chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be
nice, but efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.

I second Raxco Perfectdisk if you have a need for a 3rd party defragger.
Personally I believe for normal use the built in defrag utility is all that
is needed.

 

[Elmo]

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free space
& page
file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for a number of years,
but its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented files scattered over C, as
well as
leaving the free space in even more of a mess than The Microsoft utility.
It also leaves sundry chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be nice,
but efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.
Dave Gillingham
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[Vanguard]

This will work for your pagefile.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

Defragger
http://www.diskeeperlite.com/

Diskeeper Lite was discontinued about 4 years ago, so what you get is
an old version 7. I'd trust a known download site, like
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207, rather than the
diskeeperlite.com which is abusing the trademarked product name. Note
the limitations mentioned for the Lite version at the MajorGeeks site.
If you are using NTFS, there isn't much, if any, perceived improvement
in disk throughput (see
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,104961,00.asp). Don't
bother defragging more than once per month or two as the CPU cycles
lost, power, and extra wear on the hard drive aren't worth it.

 

[Dave Gillingham]

Thanks very much for the replies.

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free space & page
file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for a number of years, but
its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented files scattered over C, as well as
leaving the free space in even more of a mess than The Microsoft utility. It
also leaves sundry chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be nice, but
efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.
Dave Gillingham

Dave Gillingham

 

[Dave Gillingham]

Just realised - I don't seem to have thanked all for your replies. Pardon my
bad maners, and thanks very much.

Microsoft's defrag utility is sooo slow - and still leaves the free space & page
file on my C drive very fragmented. I've used Vopt for a number of years, but
its graphic indicates it leaves fragmented files scattered over C, as well as
leaving the free space in even more of a mess than The Microsoft utility. It
also leaves sundry chunks of free space scattered over other drives.

Suggestions as to a good one to use? Freeware/shareware would be nice, but
efficiency & reasonable speed are the principal criteria.
Dave Gillingham

Dave Gillingham