Defraggler versus Microsoft Optimizer
I carried out the latest Windows 10 fall creators update 1709 on my PC and encountered numerous issues, just like many other people. So I rolled back to my earlier version of Windows 10, for the time being, as it was problem free. Hopefully Microsoft will sort out all the bugs one day.
The PC was also operating at a snails pace, after the roll back, so I did a C Cleaner clean up and then ran Defraggler, as I had not de-fragmented for some time, (several months), Defraggler reported 9851 Fragme
Different defraggers work to different algorithms, any two developers will have their own ideas about which is the best way to defrag.
eg. is it better to have files in contiguous blocks, maybe with gaps between them on the disc, or better to fill the gaps in the disc and let files become 'split up' over disc clusters?
Different developers will give different opinions, and the defrag programme they write will give different results.
There is no one 'standard' way of doing it, that's