DISC DEFRAG RECOMMENDATION REQUESTED

[HansG]

Can anyone recommend a good disc defrag utility, maybe a multi-purpose one that cleans the registry as well. Thanks for any input you can provide. Every time I use the Microsoft one it hangs up at 9% and won't go any further.

Sincerely,
Hans

 

[mechBgon]

The MS safety scanner does a registry cleanup if you run the full-service scan. link It'll also defrag if you have enough fragmentation; otherwise you can run defrag manually.

 

[Shawn]

O&O Defrag is pretty good. It's not free though.

 

[Captante]

Raxco Perfect-Disk v8 is a very reliable defreg utility & is MS-certified for Vista & XP... its not free either but works very well.

 

[HansG]

I heard that DisKeeper was good but it costs almost $100., that's pretty steep.

Hans

 

[Schadenfroh]

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1948744&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1988222&enterthread=y
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=2006279&enterthread=y

 

[Chunkee]

perfect disk

 

[HansG]

Thanks for all the good info and related links, very good reading.

Regards,
Hans

 

[irishScott]

For Free:
Diskeeper Lite 7.0
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207
Abexo Free Registry Cleaner
http://www.abexo.com/free-registry-cleaner.htm

Used both for years now on WinXP/2000 with either minor or no problems.