What is the best Defrag software

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:01 am

How often do you defrag your hard drive and what software do you use and think is the best ? i have O&O Defrag 11pro and it has loads of options

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:20 am

overdoing the job doesn't really seem to make sense because no matter how complete and thorough your defrag util is, you always get fragged up again...

usually I just use ccleaner (so I don't waste time defragging temp files and noise) then follow it up with auslogics defrag..
both free and they do passable jobs...

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:34 am

I use ccleaner to but O&O Defrag 11pro really does make a deference well that my option

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:44 am

I'm just saying I've used probably 30+ utils over the years to do the simple task of defragmenting... a couple of them worked at the most base levels possible and would actually take up to 14-16 hours literally making the data on the drive perfectly aligned and ordered... but it's not permanent and it's not worth the stress on the drive that shortens it's life. Considering the fact my storage drives don't get fragmented, and my boot drive gets reformatted about every 4-6 months whether it needs it or not, leaves me in a position where a large multi option app for defragging just isn't needed or wanted, you asked my opinion and I provided it.
Were you actually asking opinions, or trying to tell everyone how awesome your choice of defragmenter is?
If so that's fine, but I really think you should have worded the initial post differently...

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:48 am

Thats all I do, only takes me an hour or so and I only do it when I remember

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 1:49 am

I really do want your options on this and the software you use

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:27 am

thetazzzz wrote:

I really do want your options on this and the software you use

I use O&O Defrag 11 pro aswell. Much better than the basic windows one and so much more quicker.

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:45 am

XxAvengeRxX wrote:

thetazzzz wrote:

I really do want your options on this and the software you use

I use O&O Defrag 11 pro aswell. Much better than the basic windows one and so much more quicker.

Thats what i think aswell

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 3:57 am

I,m the same as Crooked_Ferrit.Have 2 tb H.Drives for storage and format my o.s H.drive every couple of months. 4 the rest I just use Ashampoo Opt suit 5 ...cracked of course.. Cool

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:24 am

trollster wrote:

Thats all I do, only takes me an hour or so and I only do it when I remember

Temporary thread hijack!

Trollster, how did you post that screenshot?

Lorrir

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:31 am

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Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 9:36 am

Thanks,

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:55 am

I prefer to use O&O Smile

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:15 am

I use JkDefrag 3.36 because of its simplicity and have it set up to run every time I boot Windows. It uses the same API as the built-in defragger, so don't expect it to do all that extra crap that other defrag programs do. Analyze, defrag, and optimize, that's all.

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:19 am

I use Diskeeper, have it running on automatic mode, it defrags smoothly even while the PC is in use or if the free space is less than 15% and I like the GUI, which has now been removed from Vista.