Woody Posted April 6, 2006 Share Posted April 6, 2006 Can anyone recommend a good defrag program? I've heard that the bundled XP jobbie is pretty useless. It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. P. G. Wodehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Bundled with XP works. But maybe there is some better, I dont know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agumon Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 Diskeeper 10 or Perfect Disk both work great --==aGumon==-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpm3k Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 I recommend Diskeeper Lite 9 which is free. To get this version follow these steps: Go here: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/software/idu/ Download: "Full Version - Intel Desktop Utilities v2.1.9.66 [EXE 88.9 MB]" Unzip the File. Navigate your way here: IDU_2.1.9.66\3rdparty\Diskeeper Double click on "setup.exe" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woody Posted April 7, 2006 Author Share Posted April 7, 2006 Diskeeper 10 or Perfect Disk both work great Thanks for that. I've heard other good reports of Perfect Disk, so I think I'll give that a try. It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. P. G. Wodehouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agumon Posted April 7, 2006 Share Posted April 7, 2006 but one thing about these program i dont like is that it runs a process in the background... i guess this process is used for scheduling, and this process uses quite a bit of RAM (about 6,000K for diskeeper)... i disabled this process unless i want to defrag my disk... but if you have a lot of RAM and dont mind it sit in the background half of the time doing nothing then it shouldnt be a problem for you... the 1 in diskeeper is DkService.exe --==aGumon==-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
membuh Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Diskeeper 10 , got it scheduled to defrag every night, cool utility, best amongst the automatic ones. The MFT and page file defrag feature is good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjLizard Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 Every night? What a waste of time and disk wear/tear. Click here if CCleaner Issues are re-appearing DjLizard.net DjLizard.net wiki Dial-a-fix Dial-a-fix tips DjLizard.net software support forum Do you live in Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, or St. Petersburg, Florida? Visit Digital Doctors where I work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldmannen Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 That is crazy to schedule it to run every single night. That is way too much, far over the top. Once a month is more than enough. You have to balance it. Too much of something good is bad. Example, if you eat a piece of cake it is good. But if you eat 3 whole cakes, then its bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berdy Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 DirMS very small and no installation required http://www.dirms.com/home/homepage.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pwillener Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 I run applications constantly in the background that fragment some of my partitions very heavily. I have scheduled Diskeeper to run once every night, and it usually completes within a few minutes. That's hardly any "wear/tear" on the disk compared with the I/O heavy apps that run 24*7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DjLizard Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Yeah, I suppose that is true. Click here if CCleaner Issues are re-appearing DjLizard.net DjLizard.net wiki Dial-a-fix Dial-a-fix tips DjLizard.net software support forum Do you live in Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, or St. Petersburg, Florida? Visit Digital Doctors where I work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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