Auslogics Defrag vs Win7 built-in Defrag?

Auslogic's Disk Defrag is a free utility. Does anyone know how it compares to Win 7's built in defrag utility? Is it worth downloading over what's already there?

trale said:

Auslogic's Disk Defrag is a free utility. Does anyone know how it compares to Win 7's built in defrag utility? Is it worth downloading over what's already there?

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CNET gave it 5 Stars, so it must be at least better than Windows 7's defrag. Most 3rd-Party Defraggers are. If you want the link to the CNET review it's here

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For all the difference that third party defrager`s make it`s not worth it, Windows 7 does a good enough job for the vast majority of users, more options for Windows defrag can be found easily at the command prompt;

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/A Perform analysis on the specified volumes.
/C Perform the operation on all volumes.
/E Perform the operation on all volumes except those specified.
/H Run the operation at normal priority (default is low).
/M Run the operation on each volume in parallel in the background.
/T Track an operation already in progress on the specified volume.
/U Print the progress of the operation on the screen.
/V Print verbose output containing the fragmentation statistics.
/X Perform free space consolidation on the specified volumes.

Windows 7 still accepts these Vista switches.
/R Performs partial defragmentation (default). Attempts to consolidate only fragments smaller than 64 megabytes (MB).
/W Performs full defragmentation. Attempts to consolidate all file fragments, regardless of their size.
/F Forces defragmentation of the volume when free space is low.

example; defrag C: /V /W

Personally speaking the need for third party solutions with 7 is just a myth, they may improve some aspects of the drive performance, or worse conflict with Windows own routines, and any performance increase will be imperceptible to the average user on a standalone machine.

Differing algorithms just give varying results this is why you will always see more fragmentation when using third party solutions. A whole industry has grown up around this subject, and let`s face it if they all reported that Windows was now doing a good enough job it would hardly be in their best interests.

I like Diskeeper 2010 for defragging. it's not free, but has a number of useful features not available in the win defragger or the free utilities. Most useful is the fragmentation prevention feature which cuts down on most of the fragmentation from occurring.

Auslogics IMO is no better than the win defragger since it has no system files defrag capability, no VSS support, no boot-time defrag etc.

Auslogics Disk Defragger

Is Auslogics Disk Defrag 64-bit Windows 7 compatible? They and their reviewers never come right out and state that. All that they state is Windows 7 compatible. Could they be like Revo Uninstaller which uninstalls 32-bit Vista and Windows 7 with its free uninstaller but charges you $40 (USD) to uninstall programs for 64-bit Vista and Windows 7?

I run it here with no problems so far.

Auslogics, like CCleaner, is the industry leading, state-of-the-art app for its purpose.

I have used CCleaner's "Run Cleaner" and Registry tab, followed by Auslogics Disk and Registry defragger on hundreds of installs for over ten years without a hiccup.

Running all 3 of them monthly will keep your HD perfectly clean and ordered.

I run UltraDefrag which is a very powerful, full featured, free, open-source app you can find at SourceForge. For one thing, not that you may desire it, it is able to defrag windows locked (system) files: most online, the page file offline.

Worth a peek, I think.

Monk

Auslogic's Disk Defrag has been solid for me... worth the test drive... GL

Auslogics Defrag and Defraggler both work nicely.

Asus logic Defragger FTW ! ... I use it to double check other bundle ware defraggers like the one in Advanced System Care till I finally just turned the ASC one off cause Asus logic defragger was way better. A nice feature to the Aus Logic defragger is the "defrag and optimize" option. Cleans up the table much better.

Note that not using the inbox defrag.exe can (and, frankly, will) screw up the information in the ReadyBoot cache. This means that whilst you're OCPD tendencies are assuaged by moving all files sequentially on the disk , you are actually slowing down the boot and prefetch processes due to misses from the ReadyBoot cache needing to be serviced and files read in from the disk in a different location than it was previously (thus resulting in an additional seek and read head movement). Also, layout.ini (which stores this information) is not generated/updated every day (by default it's every 3), so it could be awhile before the system catches up with what the defrag program did.

It's not critical, but you should at least know all of the ramifications of what you're doing if you don't use a defragmenter that knows to update layout.ini (and how to do it). The only 3rd party defragmenter that updates layout.ini properly is PerfectDisk, and I have not seen any indication from others that they bother with this - it doesn't mean there aren't other 3rd party defragmenters that update layout.ini, but I have not seen any public indication or documentation on any other than PerfectDisk that this is done.

Have now switched after ten years to Puran Defrag, for it's Boot Time defragger which is the only way to defrag System Files which are running otherwise, and also for its Intelligent Optimizer you can enable on the Additional Operations tab which moves most-used apps to the outside of HD for quicker reads. This can speed up an older HD.

There is nothing wrong with the Windows 7 defragger. Microsoft has in-depth knowledge of OS and filesystems so know what they are doing, more so than third party I would guess. I have tried third party and always fall back to Microsoft - it works very well for me.

cluberti said:

Note that not using the inbox defrag.exe can (and, frankly, will) screw up the information in the ReadyBoot cache. This means that whilst you're OCPD tendencies are assuaged by moving all files sequentially on the disk , you are actually slowing down the boot and prefetch processes due to misses from the ReadyBoot cache needing to be serviced and files read in from the disk in a different location than it was previously (thus resulting in an additional seek and read head movement). Also, layout.ini (which stores this information) is not generated/updated every day (by default it's every 3), so it could be awhile before the system catches up with what the defrag program did.

It's not critical, but you should at least know all of the ramifications of what you're doing if you don't use a defragmenter that knows to update layout.ini (and how to do it). The only 3rd party defragmenter that updates layout.ini properly is PerfectDisk, and I have not seen any indication from others that they bother with this - it doesn't mean there aren't other 3rd party defragmenters that update layout.ini, but I have not seen any public indication or documentation on any other than PerfectDisk that this is done.

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Couldn't have said it any better, Windows 7 is very complex and folks are kidding themselves if they think that these other programs will really be any better at actually increasing responsiveness in their system! Key word "actually".

Personally speaking the need for third party solutions with 7 is just a myth, they may improve some aspects of the drive performance, or worse conflict with Windows own routines, and any performance increase will be imperceptible to the average user on a standalone machine.

Differing algorithms just give varying results this is why you will always see more fragmentation when using third party solutions. A whole industry has grown up around this subject, and let`s face it if they all reported that Windows was now doing a good enough job it would hardly be in their best interests.
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I'm glad you posted the words "personally speaking", because your assertion is inherently wrong. Protected mode Microsoft OSes have always had issues in the file fragmentation area, and the problem is one of mainly philosophy. It has more to do with how the operating system keeps track of where files are stored than anything, but the fact that the address might suddenly change if the OS writes it back to disk elsewhere after reading it causes a lot of issues as well. They have been getting much better at this in recent years, but the company as a whole still has a huge problem with file fragmentation. In my opinion they should move to something like the Inode and Superblock paradigm to insure that files have a permanent home, as this nearly stops fragmentation altogether.

Worse yet, their defrag program stinks. But one must be fair. Only one defrag application I've used in thirty years made that much of an improvement. But since Norton went south with most of their applications, they seem to have tossed Speeddisk out with those they messed up. Now we're forced to put up with dog slow defragmenters that can't even manipulate a page file without rebooting.

That said, the Auslogic application works fine, but it's nothing special. I use Perfectdisk by Raxco myself, but I'm not happy with it. But at least it does complete the job, which is something the OS native application is dubious about.


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There hasn't been a reason to a third-party defragger on Windows since Vista was released. On a typical desktop computer, the built-in defragger does the job quite well.