What's a good defraggin utility?

[JJ650]

The windows one is so DANGED SLOW!
Is there a better one running around out there that I could possibly download and use?

 

[IvoryGrail]

how long was it since you last defragged? That could be the reason it would take so long.

 

[nEoTeChMaN]

If you have many programs running in the background..yes it would be so DANGED SLOW! 😉

nEo

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Norton speeddisk is good 🙂

 

[Radarman]

Search the internet for a program called Vopt 99, by goldenbow systems, download and try it out, it's best and fastest damm defragger I've seen. I've been using it for quite some time. Radarman

 

[pdo]

If you're running W2K there's a version of DisKeeper floating around and it works quite good.

 

[Auric]

Ontrack's Fix-It Utilities defrags fast and so much more! 😛

 

[HannibalX]

Speaking of degfraggin...

Get this, my old Computer Teacher Bill Bearly told me once that he defrags his HD TWICE A DAY! I tried to tell him that might not be the best thing for his HD, constant sector swapping isn't good for a drive but he's so danged smart already...

This guy was a real idiot, he told me all the school PC's had Windows 2000 on them before it even came out.

 

[bonkers325]

fixitultils 2k defrag plus
norton speed disk
diskkeeper

 

[dennilfloss]

One more vote for Ontrack's Fix-It Utilities 2000 (Formerly Mijenix...98 & 99). Great suite, beautiful integration, lesser use of resources.

 

[Prodigy^]

yup, it's slow......I once defragged a 4 Gb harddrive on a PII 266, and it took 10 hours.....

anyway, I've used this thing called Diskeeper, which did it in around an hour I think, on a 20 Gb drive. I think it's from Microsoft

 

[IvoryGrail]

hmm......my HDD is 8Gb and only takes 15-30min to defrag on average. This is using the standard Win98 one. Anyway might try Diskeeper though.

 

[nickdakick]

I'd rather frag than defrag.😉

 

[jaydee]

MemTurbo is an excellent RAM defragger. It gets back your recources that Windows98 wastes. I'm running v 1.5

 

[Sir Fredrick]

SDRAM access is not sequential, I really don't think data gets fragmented in RAM like it does on the HD...I think memturbo simply takes stuff that's in RAM and not being used, and puts it in the swapfile...