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Program to defrag hard drive

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skuba

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What are the common programs to defrag hard drive or to optmize hard drives?
Any freeware or shareware?
Windows itself used to have one, but I can't find it.

Any good utility that's not only to optimize the had drive but to optimize your computer performance in general?

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: skuba
What are the common programs to defrag hard drive or to optmize hard drives?
Any freeware or shareware?
Windows itself used to have one, but I can't find it.

Any good utility that's not only to optimize the had drive but to optimize your computer performance in general?

Thanks
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Great opening post!
 
Originally posted by: shminu
Originally posted by: skuba
What are the common programs to defrag hard drive or to optmize hard drives?
Any freeware or shareware?
Windows itself used to have one, but I can't find it.

Any good utility that's not only to optimize the had drive but to optimize your computer performance in general?

Thanks
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Great opening post!
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Are you being sarcastic?

Windows has one...in every version that I'm aware of (cept the pre-windows 95 onez 😛).

try start/run/defrag
 
I was just wondering if there are better programs than defrag. Programs that would actually optmize the system???
 
I am on XP.
The defrag doesn't run. When I run it, it opens and close in a split second.
There is something wrong.

????
 
No - just get rid of TSR's and exit out of anything that is runnning in the background - than it will run.
 
Originally posted by: paruhd0x
I use O&O Defrag, it isn't free...

But its better then Windows XP defrag software.
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I also use O&O. It's very fast compared to the built in defrag and has several different modes.
 
Well....you're describing Norton Utilities.

Might want to try a search....the disk optimization question gets asked alot.
 
I downloaded the trial version of disk keeper and I ran it yesterday. Seem pretty good.

I am also looking for something like clean sweep that will help me get rid of old orphan files, dlls, etc...

Thanks a lot guys!
 
Just one note... I used Diskeeper one time a year or so ago and it screwed up my PC. I did a boot time defrag so that it could move defrag/move the paging and swap files and defrag the Master File Table. Well, my PC wouldn't boot after it finished and I had to reinstall Windows. I've been using Perfect Disk since then with no issues.
 
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