Defrag Your Hard Drive - Comments Page 2

Maybe a strange one, but since I know about the defragmentation software from DiskTrix (UltimateDefrag), I never looked back to any of the other big name defragmenters.

The interface (from the freeware version) is...well something to get used to, I'll guess. But it functions very well. Not only does it defrag, it also moves files to the inner/outer tracks of your harddisk and/or partitions according to your specification.

Because of this your system is a lot(!) snappier. There is also a manual (PDF format) that explains every function in plain English, so you're not getting lost in all it's options.

I'm just a very happy user from the software and not in any way affiliated with DiskTrix. The free version (v1.72) I got was given out by them to promote/lure (new) users in buying their v2.x version, but it should not be so hard to Google for the freeware version.

I, too, am very pleased with JkDefrag. It can be found at http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/ and is FREE. It is very fast, if you keep your system fairly clean, and it appears to do a much better job than XP's built-in defrag. I have put an icon for it on my desktop so that I'm sure to use it regularly.

Before my computer went dead on me I was able to defrag completely (100%). I got it fixed and now it only defrags 17% and then it is done.

Another free option for Windows is Defraggler (http://www.defraggler.com), from Piriform, the same people who wrote CCleaner.exe.

I also have Windows Vista and it took all long time to hunt down the defrag option. When I do defrag (which I have scheduled daily) it takes hours every time. Is it doing anything? I noticed the other comment complaining about the Vista defragger.

I have a Windows NT 4.0 system that really has a bad case of fragmentation. But from looking at the different defragmenters out there (as well as other software) you would think that Windows NT never even existed (and yet Windows XP was built on NT and when I use an XP everything seems very familiar to me). What is wrong with these people? Why is everyone so ANTI-NT? Now I know what it feels like to be a minority and have everyone ignore you. Does anyone make a really good defragmenter that works under Windows NT? I don't understand what these new OSs have that should cause the software makers to only be able to make software that runs on them.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Keep in mind that the most recent version of Windows NT was released in 1996. So your "New Technology" is now at least 13 years old. This may help: http://www.geocities.com/andreigaceff/DefragNT.html

Diskeeper can defrag the paging file, but only when booting the machine and it can be set to defrag every time it's booted or just a one time event. The drawbacks: takes a long time to boot up, if using one time event setting you have to remember to tell it to do the job every now and then.