I've just got defraggler and I have just finished defragmenting my Local Drive and it says I have 31% fragmentation. Does that mean that I need to defragment again or what?
Sorry if these seems like a really dumb question I just don't get what the program is supposed to do exactly. I got it because it seemed a good way to clear up your drive.
Did you write stuff to your partition (meaning did you use your PC) when defragging?
Also could you post some screenshots of Defraggler after an Analysis of the C: partition ("Drive C:" and "File list" tabs)? It's *possible* that your system files (C:/Windows - the ones being used), page file (pagefile.sys), hibernation file (hiberlif.sys) and Volume Shadow Copies alltogether have produced such a high fragmentation but taken/given that your C:(?) is _31%_ fragmented, it would be rather a theory than a fact.
It could be space taken up by System Restore Points.
I also never get 100% defrag. What's the point of the window. Seems it would be a whole lot cleaner if the program sensed these restore/captured files and not display them, Duh!!!
I've just got defraggler and I have just finished defragmenting my Local Drive and it says I have 31% fragmentation. Does that mean that I need to defragment again or what?
Sorry if these seems like a really dumb question I just don't get what the program is supposed to do exactly. I got it because it seemed a good way to clear up your drive.
Defraggler is a fantastic program but it can't do everything. There are additional files that are in use while your OS is running. If you supplement Defraggler with a Microsoft product called PageDefrag which you can download for free from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx This utility will allow you to evaluate your system for these in use files and schedule them to be defragged on your next system restart before your OS loads.
Don't be afraid to run Defraggler more then once. If you used the Microsoft built-in Defrag you might likely need to run it 16 times to get it to do a good job, even though it gives you bad advise saying that you do not need to defrag again. In one pass, Microsoft’s product only gets rid of most fragmentation and does not do the job that Defraggler does or arranging your files so that you will be less likely to become fragmented again. Defraggler removes many of the gaps between data so that you have plenty of contiguous free space for your new files. It is a shame that Microsoft OS's don't pay more attention to where they write data which is why fragmentation occurs so quickly, but I suppose if they evaluated your hard drive before they wrote to it, our PC’s would run even slower. Therefore, I see Defraggler and PageDefrag as a solution to the problems.