[rehack]

i'm amazed i haven't seen this before, but JkDefrag is everything i've wanted in a defragger:

- it's small like it should be (300kb download)
- open source
- uses the windows defrag api so it's as fast/safe as every other defragger
- has a gui for those who absolutely must see a pretty picture
- also has a gui-less version that runs silently whenever you like it to
- performs a full contiguity optimization unlike the standard windows defrag
- .. and is just friggin awesome.

i hope someone else enjoys finding this as much as i did!

[moongoon]

Thanks for the heads up on a really, really free defrag.

I do like a GUI though. I especially like a pause or stop button which jk doesn't have

Although not open source Auslogics Defrag is free for personal and commercial use and works in a Win PE environment.

http://www.auslogics...efrag/index.php

Auslogics can't beat the size of jk though.. wow!

[Jeremy]

I uninstalled Diskeeper, switched to this with the intention of trying it for one week or until I notice any performance degrade as a result of it not doing what it's supposed to do properly, then analyze my drives with Diskeeper and PerfectDisk at that point and see how it compares.
Hey, I'm all for smaller software.

[rehack]

about all i could imagine this wouldn't do is be able to track file usage patterns and store files on the disk in the order they're most often read.. a very useful optimization to be sure, but this program has just blown me away in terms of no-nonsense functionality, small size, no resident services that eat up 10+ mb of ram.. i'm just glad i found it.

and i love the screensaver mode. defrag while idle, it's perfect.

[Ascii2]

I tried the utility.

Apparently it uses Windows defragmentation library.

The results of the tool seem inferior to that of the degragmentation snap-in that comes with Windows 2000.

[Jeremy]

Ascii2, on Feb 15 2007, 10:41 AM, said:

Apparently it uses Windows defragmentation library.

Care to elaborate?

[jaclaz]

Jeremy said:

I uninstalled Diskeeper, switched to this with the intention of trying it for one week or until I notice any performance degrade as a result of it not doing what it's supposed to do properly, then analyze my drives with Diskeeper and PerfectDisk at that point and see how it compares.
Hey, I'm all for smaller software.

Interesting, I had thought you were "married" to diskeeper :
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...85812&st=47

@all

Some more links to FREE or LOW COST defraggers and related apps can be found on my post here:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...85812&st=22

jaclaz

[Jeremy]

jaclaz, on Feb 15 2007, 03:18 PM, said:

Interesting, I had thought you were "married" to diskeeper

Well, I suppose we're spending some time apart.
I'm tired of using software that needs to be paid for. It's nice to find a free/open-source alternative to the commercial big boys. I'm more for giving the small ones a chance for comparison purposes nowadays.

[bledd]

another option is to put 'contig.exe' in your s32 folder, and use power defragmenter

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-D...ragmenter.shtml

contig is made by sysinternals

[Ascii2]

Jeremy, on Feb 15 2007, 11:32 AM, said:

Ascii2, on Feb 15 2007, 10:41 AM, said:

Apparently it uses Windows defragmentation library.

Care to elaborate?

From the author's "Frequently asked questions" section on his website, "JkDefrag is based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a system library that is included in Windows 2000, 2003, XP".

[rehack]

the idea that this could in any way be inferior to microsoft's own bundled defrag is a bit odd, since they both call the exact same functions to perform defragging (i.e., the exact same defrag functions that ALL other defraggers call, diskeeper, contig, etc.).

plus this utility forces contiguous space optimization, which microsoft's utility notably fails at (it termintes operation sooner, to appear faster).

[Jeremy]

So I've been running JKDefrag for several days now and I decided to install Diskeeper and run an analysis. Diskeeper reported my drives as not suffering from fragmentation and my second HDD (which is used for storage only) had absolutely no dragmentation at all. My C drive had 24 fragments and 44 excess fragments. The 132KB JKDefrag application does the job perfectly without the extra bells and whistles.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Jeremy, on Feb 16 2007, 07:48 AM, said:

So I've been running JKDefrag for several days now and I decided to install Diskeeper and run an analysis. Diskeeper reported my drives as not suffering from fragmentation and my second HDD (which is used for storage only) had absolutely no dragmentation at all. My C drive had 24 fragments and 44 excess fragments. The 132KB JKDefrag application does the job perfectly without the extra bells and whistles.

I agree! Because on one of my PCs, with Windows XP Pro 2002 SP2 with Internet Explorer 7, seems to be faster.

Internet Explorer 7 on that PC, which I'm typing this post on seems to be faster, even with 56k.

[Jeremy]

I'm using Ultimate Defrag at the moment.

[MioKawaii]

UltraDefrag GNU GPL for win32

[suryad]

I am using Perfect Disk on xp 64 bit on a raptor raid 0 setup...when I try to do the offline defrag I end up getting a BSOD. My question is have any used or do you even bother to use the offline defrag right before the system boots up so it can defrag the system files and the page file?

Oh and Ultradefrag looks great! It even has that offline defrag facility present. I think I might give it a shot when I get home! Thanks Mio. I wonder if there are any reviews of it out on the web.

This post has been edited by suryad: 14 January 2008 - 12:02 PM

[suryad]

Did a quit bit of digging around and it looks like contig.exe + PageDefrag is the best solution when it comes to free

This post has been edited by suryad: 14 January 2008 - 12:19 PM

[Louie]

suryad, on Jan 14 2008, 07:19 PM, said:

Did a quit bit of digging around and it looks like contig.exe + PageDefrag is the best solution when it comes to free

+1.

Simple and no installer.

Regards.

[weEvil]

O&O finds 0.001% Fragmentation after using JKDefrag. Nice.

This is going straight into my BartPE emergency disk.

[Jeremy]

MioKawaii, on Jan 10 2008, 05:27 PM, said:

UltraDefrag GNU GPL for win32

Tested it. It fails to defragment all files. I am disqualifying it in my final defragmenter comparison review.

suryad, on Jan 14 2008, 03:19 PM, said:

Did a quit bit of digging around and it looks like contig.exe + PageDefrag is the best solution when it comes to free

False. When it comes to being open-source, JkDefrag is the absolute best. I've tested it. It will be one of the top in the list in my defragmenter comparison review.

brucevangeorge, on Jan 15 2008, 01:32 AM, said:

O&O finds 0.001% Fragmentation after using JKDefrag. Nice.

No defragmenter exists that will guarantee you a 100% defragmented HDD after the first pass. It could just as easily be the other way around.
I have seen freeware/open source defragment drives further after commercial software was finished and vise versa.
If the defragmenter successfully defragments the drive and performs file placement which both JkDefrag and O&O do, it really doesn't matter in a real-world scheme which one you use. I'd logically go with the free one.