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Mike Oxbig

Besides the windows built in defrager, what third party applications would
you recommend? It's not that I don't think Vista can defrag properly it
just seems awfully slow. Thanks
 
The built in defrag is supposed to be slow. It runs as a background task and
pauses whenever you use the computer for something else. Other defrag
programs can actually cause a computer to become lethargic if you try to do
anything else while defragging as they take a lot more resources.

Jus allow the built-in defrager to do it's thing. It will run once a week
for as long as it takes - depending on what else you are doing on the
computer.

I have PerfectDisk installed but haven't used it for 4 weeks now. I use the
built-in defragger.

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Mike Oxbig spake thusly on 2/24/2007 7:15 AM:
Besides the windows built in defrager, what third party applications
would you recommend? It's not that I don't think Vista can defrag
properly it just seems awfully slow. Thanks
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Raxco PrefectDisk 8 rocks my world. And it carries the "Certified For
Windows Vista" logo.

Comparison chart:

http://raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/PerfectDisk_Comparisons.cfm

In second place I'd put Diskkeeper. http://www.diskeeper.com.

Either is VASTLY superior to Windows built-in defragger.

They're MUCH faster AND they do a better job of defragging, especially
when it comes to system files.




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Defrag should detect and defragment it automatically if it is plugged in
when defrag starts.
If you just want a one-time thing, you can go to an elevated command prompt
and use Defrag.exe <drive letter>:

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