3rd party defrag or Windows one?

[mrapoc]

Do you use the standard windows or 3rd party defrag? How do you find it?

i use perfectdisk 2008 and it seems to do a thorough job

 

[ionicle]

i just use the windows one, i really cannot be bothered with that, its enough effort to do spyware and viruses etc

 

[Toxcity]

I like Auslogic. Works well.

O&O on my server.

 

[Bungral]

Defrag is defrag i reckon...

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

O & O



TOG

 

[inconspicuousj]

Defrag is defrag i reckon...

sounds about right, if i find anything wrong with the windows job (which, let's face it, is slim) then i'll switch but until then i'm quite happy using it.

 

[PP Mguire]

Do we even know if the Vista one does anything? I know the XP one does but not that good as far as i can tell. Me? I dont defrag because i never have an install on my hd for more than 3 months sadly.

 

[mrapoc]

but it still fragments over everyday use? thats the beauty of windows based file systems

 

[Rastalovich]

Only with newly created files really.

I mean in this day and age, drives aren`t basically slow even with minor fragmenting.

You can go alot deeper with the likes of PerfectDisk?? (I think it`s called), where it`ll put highly used files at the quickest reading area of the drive and things like that...

Dunno if it`s exactly worth it today tho.

I will say this tho - when I get my act together and have all my legit tools arranged on a data drive for every install I do for myself, this sort of defragger might make it`s way on there. No an essential tool for me tho.

 

[equk]

After a new install of windows (after drivers, apps, games etc) I normally disable virtual memory (so the unmoveable page file isn't there) and then do a defrag just to sort the filesystem out a bit. Then re-enable virtual memory.

Then the pagefile and everything else is put in a nice order.

I tried Auslogic after reading tox's post and it seems pretty good and it is free. But I normally use the windows one.

Altho tbh I hardly ever defrag my drive as it mostly isn't needed and doesn't seem to have much effect on the performance of the system. It's a bit different to years ago when we were on ide drives.

Really don't like the windows filesystem tho

 

[PP Mguire]

but it still fragments over everyday use? thats the beauty of windows based file systems

True but since i install so little on my drive and dont use a pagefile theres really no point. When i get around to it ill be formatting for some other reason.

 

[baker99]

Currently I'm using O&O Defrag, it's nice as it allows you to defrag multiple drives at the same time, I think diskeeper may have done a better job in speeding up my drives though.

 

[-VK-]

Defraggler by Piriform personally...free, quick, easy.

 

[Kerotan]

UltraDefrag for me, has a nice range of options such as boot defrag, file compaction, and doesn't seem to take too long or use much of the system resources when it's running. I did use defraggler but my windows didnt like it much, i guess it tried moving a system file or something and windows just hung instantly.