What is the best defrag program you guys have used? And were can i get them to try them out


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I'm not sure about freeware.

I use Diskeeper 8 Professional.

Cheers,

Hi oOTNTOo,
I love the O&O Defrag V6 Professional Edition, its the best Defragmenter ever. Defrag Pro knows a few ways to defrag your HDs. It can organize by name/ date or access. You can controll the maximum usage of the prozessor, defrag your bootfiles and pagefile.

O&O have also a good tool for windows NT recovery, its called BlueCon.
BlueCon gives you full access to NTFS formated HDs. This tool is great. Test it!
O&O Software

Greez, Sie Tjin Kian

I too would highly recommend DiskKeeper

My vote goes to Diskeeper.

Diskeeper 8 too

Well I'm also using oo defrag.
I think it's very good.

Perfect Disk

here's my vote for O&O.

Dejavu........I prefer diskkeeper. But i know this topic was around not long ago.

choose diskeeper !! it defrags in the best way your HD
follow this link:

Diskeeper 8 Professional

Have fun defragging

i havent tried out diskeeper yet. but O&O defrag is great, runs in the background, doesnt slow down my system at all, lots of options. id recommend O&O

is there a crack or something for Diskeeper 8 Professional ????

Sure! look here!

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408

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O+O without a doubt. defrag all your disks at the same time if you like, run various methods of defragging, a brilliant package.

with other defrag software you only have the one method of defragging a disk, so if theres some fragged files on there and it cant shift it you are stuck. With O+O another defrag method might just do the trick and move the problem files.

@ Jonquil Bloom

Its really simple to crack it yourself. Just fold your Diskeeper 8 Professional CD and sure enough it will crack.

Back in the days when we worked with 5 1/4" floppys you'd have to deep freeze em for a day or two. And with a swift snap you could crack the disk as well.

BTW... a bit of side-kick info on Diskeeper... Supposedly the author is a member of the Church of Scientology. I believe Diskeeper (the one included with Windows) is not in the German version of Windows XP/2000(?) because the German government was afraid it may contain a backdoor.

Perhaps some of our German readers can confirm this?

I'm new to this forum/board so this is my first post! I've been using this terrific little utility for defragging for about four months now and it's been a gem!

GEODisk 1.0.8

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I used to use perfect disk 6
It's said to be the best
but my feeling is that it reduced your bootspeed too much
then I uninstall it
I'm using the windows' defragmenter

That's an interesting piece of information. A google search turns up a lot of interesting articles and such.

Here's one from 2001 relating to Panda Software:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/03/pa...church/?FACTNet

The few articles I glanced through were fairly old. 2002 and before. I guess this is old news.

Cheers,

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has anyone here tried both O&O Defrag Pro AND Diskeeper 8. i use O&O at the moment and just wondered if diskeeper is any better.

Is O&O's auto-sensing feature any better than the Set It & Forget It in Diskeeper?

I think Perfectdisk (www.rasco.com) is the best...
is was tested 6 months ago to be the fastest, and you will notice speedboost...
it has boot optimizations and all... its a nice small but strong program... prefer it above O&O

BTW Perfectdisk is really WAY faster then Diskeeper...

I've tried Diskeeper and & O&O. I liked O&O much better. More methods of defragging, and the interface seemed less kludgy, diskeeper reminded me of win3.11.

Also worthy of note that win2k3 will require the server versions of each.

I tried all of the three major defragment tools. The best among them is the o&o defrag v6.

Diskeeper PerfectDisk O&O Defrag
GUI
Best Good Better
Performance during defragmenting (Fastest)
Fast Fastest Faster
Space (less holes between files)
Good Better Best
Background (Defrag at background)
Yes No No

That is my result during my test. NOTE: "I don't really recommend o&o defrag it depends on you."

personally, i like O&O Defrag, because of its theroughness, i like perfectdisk & diskkeeper because of there quickness, but i tend 2 use O&O more, so thats where my vote resides

regards

Diskeeper 8 Pro. Love that defrag on startup

What do you think of TuneUp Utilities 2004's defrag?

O&O Defrag is the way to go

O&O Defrag! Either Pro or Server. Numerous advntgs.

http://www.oo-software.com/en/products/oodefrag/index.html

O&O and Diskeeper don't hold a candle to VoptXp. VoptXp is 10 times better and faster than both. Instead of just a defragmenter it's much more. It strategically places files for performance.

Don't believe it? Test your system with SiSoft Sandra or over at pcpitstop.com first. After you run a good hard drive test, run VoptXp one time and retest. You'll notice at least a 10-15% increase in speed.

The last version I used was VoptMe. But, have you used O&O?

Hi, everyone.
I saw quite many vote for diskkeeper.
But there is much argument against diskkeeper.
See http://www.download.com/3302-2094_4-10224681.html

Someone suggests me to wish Perfect Disk. It's because it can defragment well in a or a few passes which diskkeeper cannot.
See http://www.download.com/3302-2248_4-10262593.html

I personally haven't tested these products, so I don't know their effectiveness.

O&O Defrag V6 Professional Edition

I love it, have been using it for years now, (older versions)

Perfectdisk.

Yes, Mazin, I have used O&O. Every defragmentation tool I've used in the past just does that - defragments. VoptXp strategically places files for optimal performance. It places the most often accessed files at the beginning of the drive. Larger files serve precedence over smaller files as well and come before smaller files generally though not always.

Defragmenter Pro Plus

http://www.abexo.com/

this what i use
http://www.geocities.com/andreigaceff/DefragNT.html

winternals enterprise defrag is no.1 tool
just check the benchmarks ,it kills every other defrager out there
you can rip the dos files and run it from command line
its the fastest there is and the overall best for professionals
if you want gui go with diskeeper

My vote goes to O&O Defragmenter Professional Edition v6.5
Cheers

O&O defrag is great.....It doesnot restart consistently if you are using your PC .....

And its defragment options rocks....
I also like the "cluster view" and the report that says which files were not defragmented etc....

Prety complete software.

Perfectdisk, no question about it

none

PerfectDisk,
it's the smallest, fastest and absolutely reliable

I love perfect disk , DiskKeeper sucks!

I believe PD is the only defreg certified by MS. - http://www.raxco.com/

My vote goes to - Diskeeper Pro 8.0.
And that is the one used by MS as well (in a cut-down manner, of course) since win2k onwards.

The best part is that it simply updates/replaces windows' own defrag tool - since it is actually a cut-down version of itself.

I used to be a O&O defrag fan (I always disliked diskkeeper), but after trying PerfectDisk (raxco) I'm sold

O&O Defrag. It may not put on a dazzling display/lightshow for you, but it does highly decrease the Windows boot-up and starting of programs (using the Defrag/NAME option). AM I WRONG? Or is that not why we defrag? Pretty much you install it, defrag it the way you desire (differs on your computer & whether it is a laptop) & setup your options. Last, set-up the fully-automated defrag "job" by clicking on "automation" & then "OK." It then sits in the background and defrags occasionally using an intelligent CPU detection-thingy and selects the best defrag method for each drive (that even varies over time). Basically you don't ever notice that it's defragging (no slowdown at all - playing a game? it won't start, then...) The background monitor only uses up 4MB or less (varies) of RAM (i've got 2GB on my computer).

The downside would be the cost for the Pro & Server Editions. I have also incorporated the server version on my server at work. It not only does the above, it also does it for the 22 other computers networked to it. Check out www.oo-software.com for the marketing/"technical" stuff.

Yeah but Fatdog says so.... Besides Raxco rocks.