What's the best disk defrag app for Windows XP?
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http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-download/defrag-your-hard-d...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JkDefrag
Extensive IT history.
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http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/index.html
"Unleash the hidden performance of your computer with the minimum effort. O&O Defrag 11 Professional Edition packs file fragments quickly and securely back together to optimize your hard disk under Windows. Its functionality ranges from a fully automated defragmentation to an individual professional set up. It can do everything a truly good defragmentation software should be able to do.
The new background monitoring function helps to prevent fragmentation at source. Newly added and modified files are analyzed and defragmented whenever they are not being accessed. O&O Defrag makes sure that your hard disk is constantly performing at its peak."
Also Check out this review:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download809.html
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M$What most people don't know... it's actually what is known as a Lite or slightly crippled version of Diskeeper, a product made by Executive Software.
For those who exceeded this lite version, I have experimented with numerous utilities and my favorite commercial Defrag Utilities for Windows are:
Paragon Total Defrag
(US$29.95) http://www.paragon-software.com/home/total-defrag/
Review: http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/06/great-defrag-shootout-xv-paragon-total.html
DiskTrix UltimateDefrag
(US$39.95) http://www.disktrix.com/UDIntroduction.htm
Review: http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/06/great-defrag-shootout-xiii-disktrix.html
Here is a list of free Defrag Utilities for WIndows:
Auslogics Disk Defrag http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/
Contig http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Contig.mspx
DefragMentor Lite CL http://defragmentor.com/dmlcl/en/home.asp
IOBit SmartDefrag http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/index.html
JkDefrag http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/
PageDefrag http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx
Partition Logic http://partitionlogic.org.uk/about/index.html
Power Defragmenter GUI http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/Power-Defragmenter.shtml
Rapid File Defragmentor Lite http://www.rapidfd.com/en/lite.php
SpeeDefrag http://www.vcsoftwares.com/SpeeDefrag.html
SpeedItUp FREE http://speeditupfree.com/index.html
UltraDefrag http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/
WinContig http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/index_EN.htm
The important point is that whatever product that you decide meets your level of need, it doesn't do a bit of good unless you defrag your drives on a regular basis.
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Thanks :)
Take a look at Auslogics, it has always been the fastest, its extremely simple to use and does not require any analysis phase.
Good Luck!
You're correct, MS defrag has indeed served me well for over 15 years... when it failed not long ago, I was flabbergasted. Problems defragging Google Desktop and Picasa files (which become very large and fragmented with frequent use) seem to be pretty common. After exhausting the intuitively obvious solutions, the next best answer seems to be to try a third party defragger. Since I've never had need for one until recently and I don't feel like test driving a bunch of defraggers (with potentially disastrous results), I thought I'd take advantage of Mahalo Answers to see if I can get a community consensus on which one's the best. This experience has shown me that my computer usage has changed over the last couple decades, and it's time to adapt my habits a bit to match... I definitely plan to increase the frequency I defrag and do other disk maintenance tasks to keep up with the demands on my hardware.
http://diskeeper.com/
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The hobbled version of Diskeeper which accompanies Windows is crap IMHO, check out item #9 in the top 10 list linked below for more on that. Even the enterprise version of Diskeeper isn't that great in the times I've used it to defrag SQL and Exchange servers, for example; it's as if Diskeeper is a government bureaucrat, it makes you look like it's doing something, but when you review its performance, it really hasn't done a whole lot.
PerfectDisk 7 vs Diskeeper 9 feature comparison
http://www.raxco.co.uk/media/PDV7_vs_DKV9.pdf
Top 10 Defragging Pointers (by Frank Alperstadt, managing director of O&O software)
#9 from this article: "Don't rely on the built-in Windows defragger.
In Windows 2000/XP you will find built-in software, calling itself a defragger. This tool is slow, incomplete and has a limited scheduling capability. Further, it can only defrag one drive volume on a machine at a time."
http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid1_gci799331,00.html
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M$You can check out the reviews for this and other free OSS defrags at the websites listed below I found the blog quite refreshing also find a link to the site where you can download it. I hope I was of help to you.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Contig.html
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/Contig.mspx
http://www.openaccess.co.za/BlackAndWhiteInc/Defrag.htm
http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2006/07/contig-saves-day.html
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=502850
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M$I checked out the trial versions of a few of the more popular defragmenters recently; not a detailed scientific study, but sufficient to understand their strengths and weakenesses. I finally settled upon Diskeeper because it offered what I wanted: low resource usage, complete defrag of files, defrag in low space conditions, and most importantly - automatic operation. Diskeeper was the one which I could install once, and never have to worry about defragging at all. It defragged the PC's drives automatically as required, and without bothering me or interrupting other applications. So my vote goes to Diskeeper 2009 Pro.
BTW, you can do what I did, and download a free trial version from http://www.diskeeper.com and evaluate for a month before deciding on a purchase.
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Thank you sammyc53, and everyone, for your input! I did end up test driving JkDefrag, Diskeeper, and PerfectDisk. JkDefrag is pretty good (and free), and after several runs, my messy disk problem is solved! FragExt wasn't much help at first, but these big files were so fragmented, it took about a dozen runs (mostly JkDefrag and Diskeeper) to get the disk back in good shape.
It looks like the consensus I was looking for is in favor of the paid apps, which I have to admit are pretty sexy. Aside from slick GUIs, possibly the biggest thing in favor of Diskeeper and PerfectDisk are the background/screensaver defrag options. At the moment, I lean towards PerfectDisk... ultimately, one would have to spend a great deal of time and effort to see which was truly the best for improving disk performance... and probably not really worth the effort. Scheduling JkDefrag to run daily should work fine for me.
And if you want to defrag just large files like PSTs or Databases, Google "FragExt"