Defraggler is too slow!

[Mike Hawthorne]

Hi

 

I have used CCleaner for years and love it. Last week I downloaded and installed Defraggler. I have to say that it does a very good job of defragmenting my hard drives but!

 

Boy is it slow; it literally takes hours to defragment each drive.

 

My computer runs better afterwards but even after the initial use it just seems to take forever.

I started it about an hour ago on my C: drive that had 137 files totaling 6.3 gigs. An hour later it is at 30 files at 3.6 gigs.

 

I have a 3 year old high performance computer running Windows XP Pro, with a 3ghx dual core processor, and 2gig of fast ram, and a Nvidia 7800 GTX video card.

 

I just thought I would let you know, I saw that it said that the new version, 1.04.98 had fixed a bug that caused it to be very slow. It hasn?t worked for me.

 

I still love CCleaner but it?s back to AusLogics Disk Defrag for the a while at least.

 

So long for now.

 

Mike Kingsbury

[davey]

Hi

Mike Kingsbury

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forums !!!

You have been a Piriform user apparently for years more than I have. I am glad you have Registered and joined us.

Thanks for your input. It is very helpful to us.

 

Over the past year I have been continuously using and intermittently testing Defraggler and in comparison with other "defragmenter" products. I have done much research and testing. I don't consider myself an expert in any related area as regards file systems, disk technology and such. I have done enough "user" testing to come to the following conclusions.

 

1. Many users are confused by the term "defragmentation" and "optimization".

2. Defragmenting is more productive for the average user than any optimization process.

3. Average users are best served by letting the Operating System handle any optimization. Average users can benefit most by using the Defraggler "Defrag Checked" option under the "File list" tab after using "Analyze". This is the fastest option for Defraggler defragmenting. All fragmented files can be selected with one click at the box provided next to the Filename header.

4. Defraggler's File list defragmentation is a very fast defragmenter and it also has some optimization in it's algorithm.

 

5. Defraggler's "Drive defrag" options should be considered more as "optimization" processes than defragmenting although defragmenting is part of the process unless fragmentation is allowed to speed up the "optimization" process.

6. Specialist users such as "gamers", audiophiles, and such can benefit most often by using "Defrag Folder" and "Defrag File" options.

7. More "advanced" users layout their data in special partitions and folders and benefit most often by using "Defrag Folder" and "Defrag File" options.

 

8. Complete disk optimization is needed very infrequently but is beneficial when it has not been done in a long time.

 

You have completed the "optimization" process by letting Defraggler defragment the whole drive. This will always be a slow process and is not needed again for quite awhile.

Would you please consider using the "File list" defragmenting in Defraggler and fill us in? By "highlighting" individual filenames you can see where these files are on the drive before and after defragmenting.

Your feed back is important and we would appreciate it.

Thanks,

davey Just another member and user like you.