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Defrag Software?

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Bob Bobertson

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I'm looking to get a Disk Defragmenter to use instead of the standard Windows one, I'm thinking of getting O&O Defrag V8.0 but don't really know what I'm looking for. Is that any good or are there much better ones out there? If anyone could tell me of a good free one that would be great! I just thought I had better ask somewhere before I part with any cash.
 
The built in one should do fine. I've used O&O Defrag before and it allows you to specify how you want files organized on the disk but it's really overkill unless you have a network server or something and want to arrange the files yourself so they're accessed more quickly.
 
Ok, It's just I barely notice any difference in performance after running the Windows defrag, and I wouldn't say its because it doesn't need it.
 
Originally posted by: Bob Bobertson
Ok, It's just I barely notice any difference in performance after running the Windows defrag, and I wouldn't say its because it doesn't need it.
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From what I understand, fragmentation isn't as big a problem with NTFS as it was with FAT32 and FAT16. I don't notice a difference after I defrag my Raptor either. I don't even notice it much on my 4200 RPM laptop hard drive after I defrag.
 
Get O&O. Defragmentation alone does very little for performance compared to actually reorgaznizing your files like O&O does.
 
The only thing I wish I could do with the Windows defragger is schedule defragmentation (may be possible with Schedule, I've never played around with it) and defragment multiple drives (I have drives C-H on my system and I'd like to be able to start a defrag in the morning and let it do all drives while I'm at work).
 
Originally posted by: MrBond
The only thing I wish I could do with the Windows defragger is schedule defragmentation (may be possible with Schedule, I've never played around with it) and defragment multiple drives (I have drives C-H on my system and I'd like to be able to start a defrag in the morning and let it do all drives while I'm at work).
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It used to be easy... but now I don't know how to set up the Scheduler to do it.
 
You can make a batch file to run the defragmenter from the command line and then execute this batch file from the scheduler.

Just make a batch file (defrag.bat) with something like:

defrag c: -f
defrag d: -f

in it and then add that batch file as a scheduled task.

You should be able to do a couple google searches and find some guides on how to do this (or run defrag /? from the command line for information on the parameters)
 
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