Topic: What a difference
shoesmonkey's photo
Sat 11/28/09 07:24 AM
a defrag make's! I have speed back.:banana:

Peccy's photo
Sat 11/28/09 07:31 AM
amazing what scheduled maintenance will do for ya'!

shoesmonkey's photo
Sat 11/28/09 07:34 AM

amazing what scheduled maintenance will do for ya'!
Gotta ask though, why do I still see fragmented file's?

no photo
Sun 11/29/09 12:33 PM


amazing what scheduled maintenance will do for ya'!
Gotta ask though, why do I still see fragmented file's?


If you use the built in defrag (Windows) it will do a decent job but not a good one, it will always leave fragmented files, use a more professional one if you can (either buy or find a good free one).

Also system files are not defragmented when your drive C:\ is in use you need a program that will defrag the system files before you boot to C:\ most good ones have the option but not the default Windows one, so maybe the fragmented files you see are system files.

no photo
Thu 12/03/09 08:38 AM

If you use the built in defrag (Windows) it will do a decent job but not a good one, it will always leave fragmented files, use a more professional one if you can (either buy or find a good free one).

Also system files are not defragmented when your drive C:\ is in use you need a program that will defrag the system files before you boot to C:\ most good ones have the option but not the default Windows one, so maybe the fragmented files you see are system files.


Totally agree,
Best defrag utilities i have found, maybe you know of a better one, which i would love to try if you do..
But free O&O defrag 2000 which runs in XP but not Vista, is a rip off of the one found in NT4 which was a great Defrag utility, they seem to have gotten a little more crappy as the generations of windows have gone..

DiskKeeper 2007 was also a great one, since you could increase your MFT file, and defrag at boot, they changed the 08 and 09 versions and it is no longer as good, but if you go to Oldversion.com you can download 07 and try it, the trial is very good..

Also,
You may want to run in the command prompt a Baseline defrag, which will push the data to the outside of the disk and also increase performance...
(NOTE: Solid state disks should never be defraged as it will damage the drive, this is important because a bunch of new Netbooks have these drives)

To baseline..
Click Start
Click RUn
Type in CMD press enter
in the command prompt type in defrag c: -b and press enter..
their is no function to show it working, it will apear to freeze, just let it do its thing..
Then run your normal defrag, i.e. Defrag C: -f






carlos2342's photo
Fri 12/04/09 09:19 AM

a defrag make's! I have speed back.:banana:


This would make sense as defragging organizes and clumps files near on your hard drive sectors thus when you are trying to run a program or even just using files the hard drive does not have to work as hard to find files associated with certain things. I can give you an easy way to understand, say I gave you 100 houses spread out in a haphazard (fragmented) way in a circle, some even missing the house numbers over a ten mile radius and you have to drive to find certain sets of addresses and drop of a bags, while other cars were honking behind you, this may sound like an easy task, but it will be time consuming and exhausting on you with some missing numbers and some houses out of order, now if I moved all the houses on the circle in order (defragmented) and all had nice large addresses displayed, and you had to drop off bags, this would be easier, correct? Machines and principles of machines work similar to human logic.