defragment tools

[Mingo]

I'm looking for a good defragmentation tools, any suggestions?
TIA!

 

[Big_Al]

I'm looking for a good defragmentation tools, any suggestions?
TIA!

O&O Defrag is a pretty good one, dedicated defrag program.
Tune Up Utilities 2008 has one built in with other utilities.

Both display the screen of square blocks rather than the vertical lines
like XP's defrag.

 

[Brian A.]

I'm looking for a good defragmentation tools, any suggestions?
TIA!

If you would like one that runs in the background, see:
www.diskeeper.com

--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[db.·.. >]

basically, you can spend
a lot of time defragging
files, but they quickly
become fragmented again.

there are some defrag
freeware that appear
to defrag, but in reality
they do not because the
are simply spywares.

this one is free and it
does a good job:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/article/defraghd.htm

 

[db.·.. >]

here is more tools
offered by microsoft:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/tips/defrag.mspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx

 

[The Todal]

If you would like one that runs in the background, see:
www.diskeeper.com

Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If
you switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever
you analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely
fragmented even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely
can't be right.

Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.

 

[jimbo571]

Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If
you switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever
you analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely
fragmented even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely
can't be right.

Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.

Google for and try using CCleaner and Defraggler .

 

[Brian A.]

Beware.

Diskeeper looks on the face of it to be a good product. Two criticisms. If you
switch off the automatic defragmentation tool, you find that whenever you
analyse your disk, Diskeeper tells you that your disk is severely fragmented
even if you last defragged it a few days before. Which surely can't be right.

I've not run into that yet and I have auto defrag off on a a few
drives/partitions.

Second, I ran Diskeeper defragmenter whilst running Turnpike Mail (I suppose
hardly anyone uses that). That turned out to be a catastrophic mistake. My
hard disk became unbootable, showing numerous disk errors most of which
Scandisk couldn't fix, and in the end I had to reinstall XP and all my
programs.

I don't and never have used Turnpike Mail, sorry to hear that. Yet it's
another example of why backups/images are of the upmost importance to any PC
user.


--

Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375

 

[Unknown]

Best one is at: start---all programs---accessories--system
tools---defragment.