best software for defragging?

[cosmicanddavid]

whats the best tool for defragging free or paid??when i do a system health check with perfmon /report sometimes it says my harddrive isnt defragged enough??i tried defraggler it uses google update and that downloading aload of rubbish on my pc ausllogics defrag got a pup or toolbar in with it even the portable comes up with a virus in it according to virustotal tried o+o defrag that utter diabolical

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Defraggler was great when I used in XP but I had nothing but problems with it in Win 7. Win 7's own defragger, however, works just fine so you don't really need a third party program for defragging.

 

[SIW2]

Power Defragmenter GUI - Download

It is a gui for this: Contig

 

[Layback Bear]

It's been a long time for me to do a defrag because I use SSD's.
A couple of years ago I tested several defrag programs. When all was done I chose to use Windows 7 builtin defrag.

In my opinion the Windows 7 builtin defrag puts things where Windows 7 wants them not where a 3rd party program wants them.

It worked as well as any.
I never did try Contig.

Jack

 

[RolandJS]

Did you say that Auslogics Disk defragger came with a toolbar or something? Did you do the custom/advanced install or did you do the default/express install?

 

[cosmicanddavid]

last one i did with auslogics malwarebytes found the free defrag with pups inside it the portable version had some toolbar with it i did the custom install and still rubbish got in it

 

[RolandJS]

Did that Auslogics EXE come from any other download site beside Auslogic's download site?

 

[Callender]

My personal choice but not a recommendation:

For individual files and folders: WinContig

For boot time defrag with custom file exclusion list, custom delete files on boot list and full disk check I use Puran Defrag. It gets it all done in one go. It also defragements all files when the built in Windows 7 defrag cannot defrag files that are in use.

On the other hand on my work based machine Windows 7 built in defrag utility is used - it runs in the background when the machine is idle and any time I've ever checked fragmentation it always displays 0% fragmented.

 

[Hazuki]

whats the best tool for defragging free or paid??when i do a system health check with perfmon /report sometimes it says my harddrive isnt defragged enough??i tried defraggler it uses google update and that downloading aload of rubbish on my pc ausllogics defrag got a pup or toolbar in with it even the portable comes up with a virus in it according to virustotal tried o+o defrag that utter diabolical

Why not using the one on windows? You could try an app called Smart Defrag and see if its work well.

 

[Melchior]

Defraggler was great when I used in XP but I had nothing but problems with it in Win 7. Win 7's own defragger, however, works just fine so you don't really need a third party program for defragging.

strange... I have been running Defraggler for years with no issues (XP32bit, XP64bit, Win7-Ultimate-x64)...

I keep Defraggler loaded on my Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 PC all the time defragging files as need..

I like Defraggler because:
1- you can do a quick defrag which defrags files 50MB and smaller and leaves non fragmented files alone..
2- you can defrag individual files one at a time to get to the more important files or in groups by folder etc..

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

strange... I have been running Defraggler for years with no issues (XP32bit, XP64bit, Win7-Ultimate-x64)...

I keep Defraggler loaded on my Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64 PC all the time defragging files as need..

I like Defraggler because:
1- you can do a quick defrag which defrags files 50MB and smaller and leaves non fragmented files alone..
2- you can defrag individual files one at a time to get to the more important files or in groups by folder etc..

'Tis strange indeed. When I first tried Defraggler on my first Win 7 Home Premium notebook, it would take hours to run on just a 500GB HDD. I had the same problem when I built my Win 7 Ultimate desktop and tried using Defraggler on the two data HDDs. One of the HDDs actually crashed and had to be restored (thank God for backups). I've seen reports from others having the same problems.

 

[cosmicanddavid]

man windows defragger is doing it job good it starts off slow then on the 6 apptempts it gets faster all the time!!

 

[Melchior]

it would take hours to run on just a 500GB HDD.

ooh that's because your doing a full defrag... use the quick defrag option to speed up to op super fast depending on the total # of fragmented files..... and manually defrag files over 50MB in size..
Thats what I do it it takes usually from a few seconds to less then a minute for typical quick defrags.. and when I am doing my C drive... it can take a minute or two.. for each chunk of files I selected...

as quick defrag moves only the fragmented files clean them up and leaves the rest of the HDD alone... its worked for me for years...

One of the HDDs actually crashed and had to be restored (thank God for backups). I've seen reports from others having the same problems.

ouch... I have never had that happen.... I got WD Blacks (Western Digital's top HDD)

 

[Jody Thornton]

I find PerfectDisk is one of the best, especially for consolidating free space, anf for boot time degfragmentation.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

ooh that's because your doing a full defrag... use the quick defrag option to speed up to op super fast depending on the total # of fragmented files..... and manually defrag files over 50MB in size..
Thats what I do it it takes usually from a few seconds to less then a minute for typical quick defrags.. and when I am doing my C drive... it can take a minute or two.. for each chunk of files I selected...

as quick defrag moves only the fragmented files clean them up and leaves the rest of the HDD alone... its worked for me for years...




ouch... I have never had that happen.... I got WD Blacks (Western Digital's top HDD)

All the HDDs in my desktop were WD Blacks (the boot drive was an SSD from the word go on that machine): two 2TB at the time I tried to use Defraggler in my desktop rig (I added a 4TB later and now I have nothing but SSDs).

When I was still using HDDs, I had Win 7's defragger set on a schedule to check for fragmentation around 2AM every Wednesday morning and defrag if necessary. I rarely saw the amount of fragmentation go over 1% (most of the time, it was 0%) whenever I got a feral follicle shaft up my onager and analyzed them).

 

[Melchior]

whenever I got a feral follicle shaft up my onager and analyzed them).

Waaht? loi cat hair? onager? never heard of it... "analyzed"? do you have some kind of fancy microscope and PC interface? I get it.. you must be an elite scientist!? loi

 

[marsmimar]

...whenever I got a feral follicle shaft up my onager and analyzed them

You still have a way with words, Jeannie! :roflmao:

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

You still have a way with words, Jeannie! :roflmao:

Well, it sounded a bit nicer than a wild hair up my...ahem.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Waaht? loi cat hair? onager? never heard of it... "analyzed"? do you have some kind of fancy microscope and PC interface? I get it.. you must be an elite scientist!? loi

LOL! For the benefit of those not in the know, this is the "analyze" I referred to:



An onager:

I would love to get one of those fancy dancy digital microscopes that project an image on a computer monitor and save the image on the computer (one of these days I will break down and shell out the shekels for one). A simple magnifier is starting to not cut it for my old eyes.

The only scientist I am is mad.

 

[Melchior]

lol