Defragmenter

[Martin]

What are your opinions on 3rd party defrag programs such
as Diskeeper and Perfect Disk over XP's defrag program?
Do they do a better job and if so which one is better-
Diskeeper or Perfect Disk?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You might wish to consider purchasing a more powerful
and thorough defragmenter program, such as PerfectDisk,
which has the capability to defrag both the MFT and pagefile
offline.

Perfeck Disk
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/more_info.cfm

Try out PerfectDisk® free, for 30-days
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| What are your opinions on 3rd party defrag programs such
| as Diskeeper and Perfect Disk over XP's defrag program?
| Do they do a better job and if so which one is better-
| Diskeeper or Perfect Disk?

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

I use Perfect Disk, mainly because of its native scheduler and ability to
scan multiple drives w/o user interjection, though there are workarounds now
for WinXP's defragger. The fancier UI adds nothing to the routine, but looks
cool when you run it <g>. I've found it to be just slightly quicker than the
native utility.

The key to using defraggers though is to pick one and stick with just that
one. Each has their own way of optimizing the system, and they will often
work against each other.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[PeterM]

I'm using Perfect Disk, it is the best............Peter

 

[Guest]

Lots of comments on Perfect Disk. How does Diskeeper
compare?

 

[Robert]

Lots of comments on Perfect Disk. How does Diskeeper
compare?

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It just does not compare at all!

 

[PCEngWork]

I haven't used Diskeeper since version 5.0. I've been using
Raxco's Perfect Disk 2000 and still believe it does a more
comprehensive job than Diskeeper. PD-2000 has the Boot
time defrag and it seems to work very well with the Prefetch
function of XP. After you perform the 1st Boot-time & GUI
defrag, subsequent runs are very fast. Perfect Disk seems to
prevent/limit re-fragmentation. Even on my external Maxtor
80 gigabyte a full defrag run can complete in less than 1 min.
I believe Raxco has a side-by-side comparison chart of it's
latest version 6 against Diskeeper.
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/Whitepapers/Unique_Differences_PD6_DK8.pdf

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

I can't comment on something I haven't tried.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

What are your opinions on 3rd party defrag programs such
as Diskeeper and Perfect Disk over XP's defrag program?
Do they do a better job and if so which one is better-
Diskeeper or Perfect Disk?

I prefer Perfect Disk, having paid for and tried both. It does not as
DiskKeeper and the inbuilt defrag do require 15% of disk space free; and
does consolidate the free space - which Diskeeper explicitly does not
(and as they provided base for the inbuilt one I don't think it does
either).