I just started using Defraggler, and was wondering if someone could answer a couple of questions for me. I haven't been able to figure this out.
I am running Windows Vista Ultimate in case it matters.
Thanks Again. This seems like a really cool program. I love CCleaner and Recuva, so I'm sure I'll love Defraggler as well. ![:)]()
Hi mlyons,
Welcomer to the forums. ![:D]()
Good questions that you have.
I wish I had Vista to do some testing with myself but not yet.
I have done research into what is going on and as more information becomes available I will do more.
Some editions of Vista do some things different than others and all that data takes more time to sink in without being able to use Vista myself.
Basically it comes down to Vista being more alert to changes occurring and either creating more Restore Points or creating more copies of things that are being changed.
It may just be a Vista thing that the Defraggler dev. team need to make some changes or additions to Defraggler to compensate. Vista Defragmenter has special things that it performs to cut down on this usage.
A simple run of the Vista Defragmeter seems to clear things up. It is just different than most people understand. Some defrag products will show that Vista Defragmenter must be leaving things fragmented.
It is true that it does. It is of no benefit to defragment certain size files any further. Lets face it having a 2 GB file in 3 segments or 30 segments is not going to benefit from further defragmenting. The magic number seems to be around 64 MB segments.
See these articles for more in depth information related to what I have tried to explain.
Vista Disk Defragmenter FAQ
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/articles/440717.aspx
Don?t judge a book by its cover ? why Windows Vista Defrag is cool
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2...ag-is-cool.aspx
Features of the Windows Vista hard disk defragmentation utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942092
Good luck,
davey
P.S. My advice to anyone would not include deleting any System Restore Points. This data is too important to the user. Vista will return this "Lost" space to you in its time or just run the Vista Defragmenter if you can't wait to see your "Lost" space for whatever comfort that brings to your heart. In other words, the space is not "lost". It is being temporarily used by Vista and will be available if it is needed.
P.S. Another little note to point out to many users is that defragmenting returns very little space to the user.
The Defragmenter program in its processes results in other programs freeing up space .