Hi,
First I would like to say I have been using CCleaner, extensively, for a little under 1 year now; I really love the product and recommend it to all my acquaintances. Many thanks to all at Piriform, I think you are doing a brilliant job out there.
Yesterday I was trying to split my Windows Vista (Premium) active partition, and was unable to shrink successfully despite having used Windows defrag, removing ?page file.sys? and Shadow Storage etc. I was aware of Defraggler, thought I would give it a try, and so I downloaded the new Defraggler v1.04.098. Having Defraggled a number of times - full disk and individual files - I was still unable to free up sufficient space for my needs and was racking my brains trying to think of another solution. It was then that I happened to run 'defrag c: -a -v' and noticed 'Total MFT fragments = 14'; luckily I had saved a log from an automated defrag/backup job I had run earlier in the day - this log showed 'Total MFT fragments = 3'. I recovered my Vista partition to its original state and was able to shrink it successfully in the process; job done!
I AM 99% SURE THAT DEFRAGGLER CAUSED FRAGMENTATION OF MY VISTA MFT
I do not wish to denigrate Piriform in any way - I COULD BE WRONG - I think they are providing valuable free products which are as good as, if not better than, many paid for alternatives. I have taken the time to open this post because I appreciate the work Piriform are doing and in the hopes that it may benefit others.
Thanks again to Piriform; sorry I can?t offer any definitive proof that Defraggler did cause my MFT problem, and hope you will appreciate my reluctance to try to recreate problem again.