Decent defragger? - Page 2

Mark · 09-07-2008, 01:27

Find one that works and stick with it. Some tools will leave behind a certain amount of harmless fragmentation (typically big files which are expensive to defragment completely), others are just crap.

Once you have found one, remove the rest and disable the Windows one. Using more than one tool will probably result in a defrag war.

My Diskeeper trial is coming to an end and I'm not sure I have the funds to buy it so might leech this effort.

Greenlizard0 · 09-07-2008, 01:34

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Originally Posted by LeperousDust

Actually i take the above back, try this one: http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

Before I realised that JK had GUI's out there I kept looking for a more friendly interface. I found the one by auslogics and tried it. I then restarted JK and found that the former didn't do a very good job. JK ran again and started shifting plenty of clusters about.

I think there was an analysis of all the free defraggers out there and JK came out top. The report is a wee bit old if memory serves me correct and the guy who wrote it himself was very surprised that such a simple and small program was the best at the time.

Edit - I found the link :

Here is a list the programs that he analysed, and here is the winner. The article is actually from June 2007, so it's just over a year old

Edit 2 - Here is a link containing some GUI's.

Feek · 09-07-2008, 06:19

Diskeeper.

MarcLister · 13-07-2008, 13:22

One uses Defraggler, what what.

Haly · 13-07-2008, 14:15

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Originally Posted by MarcLister

One uses Defraggler, what what.

Just giving this one a try

Didn't realise out of 62gb used, 28gb of it was in dire need of defragging

Hoping it'll help some weird stuttering problems I've had. *crosses fingers*

MarcLister · 13-07-2008, 19:15

Lol

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Mark Screaming Orgasm Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Newbury Posts: 15,194	Find one that works and stick with it. Some tools will leave behind a certain amount of harmless fragmentation (typically big files which are expensive to defragment completely), others are just crap. Once you have found one, remove the rest and disable the Windows one. Using more than one tool will probably result in a defrag war. My Diskeeper trial is coming to an end and I'm not sure I have the funds to buy it so might leech this effort.