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    Have to defragment many times in Vista?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by johnny13oi, Jul 13, 2008.

  1. johnny13oi

    johnny13oi Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys, when I defragment in Windows Vista and once it finishes, it rechecks and says that my file system performance be improved. I have defragmented about 4 times in a row already and it still says it. It probably can't move the files in use by the system right now, is there a way to have a system defragment when the computer turns on?
     
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    The only one I know of and have used that has offline defragmenting abilities is PerfectDisk In my experience, setting up a scheduled defragment task seems to do the trick. Otherwise I don't ever both with it.
     
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    shoelace_510 8700M GT inside... ^-^;

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    I think there IS an option for defragment on startup if you search through the settings on the defragment program itself...

    Also, I have found that in Vista I don't have to defragment very often to keep my drive clean and running fast compared to my XP machine... but I don't have any way to prove this, but it just seems like it to me.

    Hope this helps!
     
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    For some reason my windows defragger didn't work. I left it on for a day and it hadn't finished. So then I tried O&O defrag, didn't get past 5%. Diskeeper however worked perfectly in under an hour, even freed up 30GB some how.
     
    Quacklesnap, Jul 14, 2008
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    Defrag programs do not delete data.. there is no way that Diskeeper "freed up" 30 GB.
     
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    stevey5036: Most defrag programs are aimed at people who know nothing about computers. I would guess that some even do a little rudimentary space freeing. Clearing out temp folders and queued error reports can free up a big chunk of space.

    Unless your drive is more than 90% full, defragging really doesn't do an awful lot, especially with the NTFS filesystem.
     
    VinylPusher, Jul 14, 2008
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