What is the best free defragger?

After a reboot, the Icon Image is gone, bummer. The program still works though.

Charles Kane said:

I'm using Smart Defrag by iobit. Works well. Has all the options you could want, schedule, work all the time in the background etc.

The main advantage that can be offered by Defraggers is if they move most frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk. Smart defrag does that (as does PerfectDisk mentioned above).That can noticeably improve speed on your rig (when you first do it at least).

Defragmentation itself really isn't a big deal. Forking out money for a Defragger is almost certainly a complete waste, and the built in Defragmentation routine in Win 7 is probably plenty good enough!

Defragging the registry is IMO complete snake oil and absolutely unneccesary. Much more dangerous than any claimed benifits you might get. But really there are no benefits, just as there are no benefits from a registry cleanup tool. Removing a few hundred lines from a Registry Hive will have absolutely NO effect on speed or efficiency. None has ever been reported because it doesn't work.

I agree with this guy.
I also use smart Defrag

defraggler for me here

Windows Defragger only consolidate the Hard Driver, in other words just put the files all together. (Don't no really about Windows 7 Defragger)

The difference in Windows Defragger and others third part defraggers it is because the other defraggers can do another methods like Volatility, Recency, by folder or file name, etc..

There are many many horrible and useless defraggers out there so be careful..

And about defragger the registry, that is a little bit stupid, don't do that.

Bye bye.

screwballl said:

I prefer to stick with Microsoft programs for this department... I use one called Contig which has done me well for many years...

Contig

A bit of a contradiction there....



Windows Defrag FTW!, it's designed by MS for their very own Win 7... Who knows their own OS better?
Don't forget it's still a beta, and the rest of the world is mainly still guessing what might work (or even 'seem to')...

As far as system tools go, as long as 7 is Beta, everything else claiming to be Win7 compatible is still just a guess (or 'Beta' if you prefer lol!). Nothings set in concrete 'till the final arrives.

EDIT: and +1 to the above post. :)

swarfega said:

I have been using only windows defragger for sometime and today I installed auslogics defragger program and its showing a lot of spaces. So whats the best?

windows has its own ms-dos command to defrag the drives
it is "defrag c: -w"
it will defrag the c drive....you can replace it with the location you want....believe me..it is the best :)
rep. me if you find it helpful :)
thanks,

yes MS does have their own built in Defrag programs which do work well in and of itself... but the Contig I mentioned is one that not only just moves files together... but it actually looks at individual files to see if they are split into more than one place on the hard drive, then places them together, then moves everything back together.... excellent program!
There is also a front side GUI that uses the contig for the defragmentation called Power Defragmenter GUI...
but it does help after installing/unzipping this program, that you go to my previous link at Microsoft and download the latest contig program and replace the contig that comes with the Power Defragmenter program.... especially with W7