Auslogics defrag in Vista

D

David

anyone have any horror stories about this program? I've run it a couple
times and I'm not sure it's trustworthy. First issue I notice is that
it seems to defrag about 1/2 the drive and then says it's complete.
secondly, chkdsk found some errors on the drive (which it fixed when i
ran the /f parameter). When i ran auslogics defrag on an XP machine, it
went all the way thru the drive. On Vista it jumps from about 50% done,
to finished, in the blink of an eye. there is a huge chunk of free
space between the files that show on the map in auslogics. certainly
not leaving the files in contiguous order.

dave
 
S

Spirit

I have been running it couple of times a week for several months and
no problems. I do check for updates every so often. The files are
same here.... and Windows Defrag leaves them in same order.
 
M

Mike Hall - MVP

I run Diskeeper 2007 and have no experience of the defrag utility that you
have installed.

The defrag utility found in Win 9x used to show little blue squares being
shuffled around and all placed in a contiguous block.

It actually isn't important that an NT based OS is defragged like that, and
as a result, some gaps will be left behind. Some files will be left too as
not all files defrag so well. If it bothers you, see if there are options to
do a boot time defrag and some way of pushing everything together.


David said:
anyone have any horror stories about this program? I've run it a couple
times and I'm not sure it's trustworthy. First issue I notice is that it
seems to defrag about 1/2 the drive and then says it's complete.
secondly, chkdsk found some errors on the drive (which it fixed when i ran
the /f parameter). When i ran auslogics defrag on an XP machine, it went
all the way thru the drive. On Vista it jumps from about 50% done, to
finished, in the blink of an eye. there is a huge chunk of free space
between the files that show on the map in auslogics. certainly not
leaving the files in contiguous order.

dave

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Mike Hall
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/
 
Y

Yukon Jack

I have been running it couple of times a week for several months and
no problems. I do check for updates every so often. The files are
same here.... and Windows Defrag leaves them in same order.


Why do you defrag a couple of times a week? I think people get too anal
about what gains defragging actually does for you. It is not necessary to
defrag all the time. It is not necessary to use 3rd party defraggers either.
They gain you nothing.
 
S

Spirit

Well I work on a lot of databases and other programs which cause
cause a lot of installing and uninstalling and my drives get fragmented
very quickly. The 3rd part defragger just does it a little faster and
I get a report of how fragmented the drives were which happens
to be important to me.

Actually your message belies your ability to constructively comment
on this issue. Therefore I suggest you do a little studying and more
contemplating before you attempt to make a "one fits all" type
statement such as your last one.
 

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