defrag program for WinXP?

[faye]

Hi, looking for a good and reliable program to defrag WinXP pro.

Don't if the build-in "defragmenter" works great. just wondering if DiskKeeper 7.0 is worth a try.

any suggestions?

is norton utilities's Speeddisk good?

thanks

 

[gregor7777]

I have it on good account that DiskKeeper is the way to go.

 

[faye]

devil said: sometimes i don't feel using windows build-in software will do any good to the system. because they are just there if u don't purchase other expensive software(ex. norton utitlies).

angel said: the software there are made for the OS. not any other 3rd party software is as much compatible and stable with its build-in software.

which one should i listen?

ya, is Norton Utilities worth a try?

 

[tritium4ever]

I used to recommend Diskeeper without hesitation, but now I'm not so certain. Just yesterday, a run of Diskeeper's boot-time defragmentation corrupted my Windows XP installation, forcing me to reinstall. Luckily, I didn't lose any data. The exact same thing also happened several months ago. Weird thing is, I've done the boot-time defrag about 10 times over the last 9 months and problems are actually very rare, aside from the two instances of data corruption. Also, regular defrags are fast and have never caused any issues at all (I used to run it every day, but now I do it twice a week).

I'm currently seeking a new option for defragging (I heard O&O Defrag is good), but I'll continue to use the regular Diskeeper defrag in the meantime. I just won't be using the boot-time defrag option.

 

[corkyg]

I tried DiskKeeper 7.0 - and of course, I have NSW 2002 S/D (it is big suck) - and now I have settled on the new offering by Raxco - PerfectDisk. It has DiskKeeper 7's capabilities plus and has the good old SpeedDisk graphic. It is faster than anything I have used, and readily does offline optimization of MFT system reserved areas (Norton won't touch that).

PD