[What type of Firewall do you use?]

Hardware firewall is my main defense with Comodo mostly to control outbound.

 

Same here

[Defraggler extremely slow]

Summary: the problem of a seemingly halted defragmentation process may be solved by turning off the option 'Move large files to end of drive...', regardless of the System Restore settings.

 

Hello, I too experience a very slow defragmentation process. Fortunately, thanks to the remarks of Danno, I was able to solve my problem by turning off the option to move large files to the end of the drive.

 

I also turned off "Move large files to end of drive... (all sizes & other set to default)" and increased speed dramatically.

 

My system:

windows7 64bit

6gb ram

i7 920 @ 3.0

 

hdd that was used is WD VelociRaptor 150GB 10000RPM SATA-II 16MB Cache

Used space: 117GB

Free space: 22GB

No operating system installed on it, hdd just being used for games

 

Defraggler version v1.17.172 (64 bit)