what is your fav defrag program ??

i used o use diskeeper and switched to perfect disk, thinking about trialing the o&o program.. what do you use and why??

 

Auslogic Disk Defrag is the best

 

Why? I've never used it; have been satisfied with Diskeeper, and O&O before that. What makes Auslogic better?

 

It's Free & Fast + Effective

 

does it do boot time defrag?

 

Not sure that equates to "best" but I'm going to give it a try. Thanks.

 

still not available that option

 

I use AusLogics Disk Defrag too. Its very efficient, fast, and its free.

 

Does the one installed in windows system tools? I selected ultra fast booting in TuneXP and when the dos window running defrag popped up I closed it out accidentally. Underneath was another pop up telling me to allow defrag before rebooting for the changes to take affect. So I ran the windows defrag in system tools. Everything seemed to work upon re-booting

Anyway, the windows one does fine by me.

 

I was a big diskeeper fan but more than 2 years ago I saw what perfect disk could do and I switched to that and have never looked back.

 

TuneXP uses the built in defrag to do EVERYTHING it does when you select the "ultra fast boot" option. You can always run it again and follow the directions to allow the defrag to complete. Running the widows defrag manually like you did, does NOT invoke the option to defrag and order the boot files. (TuneXP invokes that option.)

Gary

 

I thought auslogics defrag was just the default winXP defragger with a new skin? Does it have the option to defrag system files? I am not sure, but I think it does not have it.

Personally, I like automatic defragmentation. Easy to set once and let it run when it needs to in the background, without me wasting my time defragging or setting up schedules like the old times. It's one less maintenance routine that I have to worry about.

 

Thanks. I tried it again. Apparently the TuneXP boot defrag ran so fast I didn't realize it completed.

 

Ah yes, but UNLESS you occasionally let your OS go totally idle, the boot defrag option will never run! Witness the number of folks in the tweaks thread who got very real improvements when running TuneXP. Why was that? Because most laptop users never leave their machine idle. And the routines that determine the optimization of the boot files are only triggered when Vista senses that the machine is idle for a certain amount of time. Only then does it run this particular optimization. So, then why does TuneXP work? Because it tricks Vista into thinking the machine is idle. It waits for the optimization to finish. Then it fires up the built in Defrag invoking the option to take the optimization info and reorder the bootfiles based on it.

Again I have posted a detail explanation of what TuneXP does in the tweaks thread, sticked at the top of the thread list in this forum. Follow this link:
TuneXP explained

Gary

 

I agree with the other dudes on auslogics defrag being the best. It's fast+effective+has a nice gui.

 

IObit Smart Defrag is pretty nifty.