Defrager program for performance, which one ?

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Which is the best program for defragging Win XP, for better performance.
Besides the standard Win XP defragmenter.

Norton, Diskeeper or other ?
 
Tod said:
Which is the best program for defragging Win XP, for better
performance. Besides the standard Win XP defragmenter.

Norton, Diskeeper or other ?
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In as much as I use my machine, I have never seen a performance increase (of
a dramatic nature) by uising any defragmentation application beyond the one
that comes with Windows. Yes - some of them do a more thorough/customizable
job. Yes, some of them finish faster than others. However, as for any
truly noticable and lasting difference - I have only seen that in my wallet
after purchasing one (several) of the products in question.

As for what I use my computers for...

- System administration of 1200+ machines.
- Video capture and editing (MPEG2 native.)
- Game play (Multiplayer RPGs mostly.)
- Test bed for application development.
- Sound recording/editing.
- General office activity (word, excel, access, powerpoint.)
 
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In as much as I use my machine, I have never seen a performance increase (of
a dramatic nature) by uising any defragmentation application beyond the one
that comes with Windows. Yes - some of them do a more thorough/customizable
job. Yes, some of them finish faster than others. However, as for any
truly noticable and lasting difference - I have only seen that in my wallet
after purchasing one (several) of the products in question.

As for what I use my computers for...

- System administration of 1200+ machines.
- Video capture and editing (MPEG2 native.)
- Game play (Multiplayer RPGs mostly.)
- Test bed for application development.
- Sound recording/editing.
- General office activity (word, excel, access, powerpoint.)
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I see that you're an MPEG2 native. What part of MPEG2
are you from?
 
Tod said:
Which is the best program for defragging Win XP, for better
performance. Besides the standard Win XP defragmenter.

Norton, Diskeeper or other ?
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In as much as I use my machine, I have never seen a performance
increase (of a dramatic nature) by uising any defragmentation
application beyond the one that comes with Windows. Yes - some of
them do a more thorough/customizable job. Yes, some of them finish
faster than others. However, as for any truly noticable and lasting
difference - I have only seen that in my wallet after purchasing one
(several) of the products in question.

As for what I use my computers for...

- System administration of 1200+ machines.
- Video capture and editing (MPEG2 native.)
- Game play (Multiplayer RPGs mostly.)
- Test bed for application development.
- Sound recording/editing.
- General office activity (word, excel, access, powerpoint.)
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Wislu said:
I see that you're an MPEG2 native. What part of MPEG2
are you from?
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Southern tip of the west penisula. You are from AVI, right?
 
Tod said:
Which is the best program for defragging Win XP, for better performance.
Besides the standard Win XP defragmenter.
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Norton, Diskeeper or other ?
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I have used both Diskeeper and Raxco's PerfectDisk (my current
defragger), and would highly recommend either one.

Ken
 
yo just get trhe program perfect disk from
www.raxco.com.com
its like the best defragger and its better than disk keeper
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Wow, I'm convinced :-)

Intelligent partitioning. If 95% of your disk activity happens within
the first 8G of a 120G HD, it matters considerably less how fragmented
that 8G C: volume becomes. Also makes it quicker to defrag C:, and
defragging the rest is easier because those volumes are not always "in
use", as C: invariably is. Protects data from C: corruption, etc.

AFAIK, all defraggers other than Norton are simply wrappers around the
same NT defrag API. So aside from "chrome" such as managing when it
runs etc. I'd expect them to work equally tolerably.

Other smarts; scale down IE's web cache (whch is duplicated for every
user profile in XP; who the hell wants 1G+ of last month's web
..gifs?), move large cold lumps off C:, move data off C: for safety
(TweakUI for XP is your friend), etc.


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