See Disk Defrag like XP version

[Guest]

The disk defrag in vista does not show much. Is there a way to see the
details and at what point it is, or when it will be finished?

 

[David A. Lessnau]

Nope. You can read about it until you weep by doing a search for "defrag"
in this forum.

 

[John Barnett MVP]

The graphical interface for defrag was removed because it wasn't deemed
necessary. I don't think many people are willing to spend hours in front of
the screen watching little boxes being shuffled around the screen as they
get put into a contigious order.

If you want to see what goes on with defragmentation then you need to buy a
third party defragmentation application. For preference I would recommed
PerfectDisk (see the following link on my website for a review of
PerfectDisk)http://vistasupport.mvps.org/perfectdisk_8.htm

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[Guest]

Yeah, but I liked the analyse button in XP. I used it on customers computers
to see whether they needed to be defragged or not. And also, the old way with
the % complete was very handy.
Mick

 

[David A. Lessnau]

If you just want an analysis of the drive fragmentation, you can do the
following:
- Find your Command Prompt program (normally Start | All Programs |
Accessories)
- Right-click on it and select Run As Administrator
- Type "defrag -c -a -v" (that should give you a verbose (-v) analysis (-a)
of all volumes (-c).
- For other options, type "defrag /?"

 

[Guest]

I was wondering also, what if you have 2 or 3 hard drives and only want to
defrag the OS and programs C: drive? I have about 300GB of backups and music
on two other large hard drives that I don't think needs to be "automatically"
defraged everytime I just want to defrag the most used OS drive.
I guess I will also look in to a third party defrager if I can't defrag
which ever drive I want to.

Thanks also,

Neil

 

[David A. Lessnau]

The simplest options to defrag just C: would be just plain "defrag c:" . If
you do that "defrag /?" I mentioned earlier, you'll see all the possible
parameters for the command. To force defrag to defragment even the big
fragments it normally wouldn't touch on that drive and use verbose mode, you
could use "defrag c: -w -v" .

 

[Guest]

Instead of paying for a disk defrag, why not use a Free one? I tried the
trial version of perfectdisk and was not impressed with it especially after
seeing the difference that the free version made on my system. The pay
program, perfecdisk, didn't really speed up my system. However, this free
version sped up my system noticeable and you can see what it is doing as
well.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

The free version's link is above.

 

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:43:12 -0700, Rick Kirchoff

Instead of paying for a disk defrag, why not use a Free one? I tried the
trial version of perfectdisk and was not impressed with it especially after
seeing the difference that the free version made on my system. The pay
program, perfecdisk, didn't really speed up my system. However, this free
version sped up my system noticeable and you can see what it is doing as
well.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

The free version's link is above.

Just stay away from the omnipresent "Download our General-Purpose
Speeder-Upper" buttons that permeate their UI...

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[Guest]

Perfect Disk trashed my desktop hard drive. Be careful. I've got to
reformat & begin again.