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Scott D
10/18/2006, 04:50 PM
I want some recommendations for disc defragmenting programs. I'm currently using a trial version of Diskeeper 2007 Home which seems to work pretty decently. I wanna know what other defrag programs people use.
yermom
10/18/2006, 04:52 PM
run Linux

YWIA
GrapevineSooner
10/18/2006, 04:56 PM
Get a Mac. :D

And then wait for mdklatt to weigh in.

Seriously, I usually just use the native defrag from XP.

Though, Diskeeper is a pretty good third-party option.
Scott D
10/18/2006, 04:57 PM
Get a Mac. :D

And then wait for mdklatt to weigh in.

I'd rather nearly cut my own leg off with a chai......er wait, nevermind. That one has been done already. :D
yermom
10/18/2006, 04:58 PM
does it work faster than the Windows one? i've never needed anything else
mrowl
10/18/2006, 05:01 PM
why not use the windows one? (unless its faster)
Scott D
10/18/2006, 05:02 PM
The only thing I've seen with this that I rate over the Windows one is that you can actually run it while using features, and you can set up a schedule for it to run as well. But, I'm also into day 2 of a 15 day trial on it, so I'm trying to get as much use out of it as possible before I delete it.
bearcat_sooner
10/18/2006, 06:16 PM
I use Diskeeper v8.0.......set it and fuh git abowt it. Works great actually........we also use it my jobby job.
Scott D
10/18/2006, 06:25 PM
is v8.0 freeware?
soonerboomer93
10/18/2006, 06:25 PM
diskeeper works well, there was something I didn't like (but I can no longer remember). I use the native one right now.
bearcat_sooner
10/18/2006, 06:33 PM
is v8.0 freeware?

Not freeware........I bought it for our department. I can't remember how much it cost now.
SicEmBaylor
10/18/2006, 06:34 PM
I've only defraged once and when I did it something went wrong and it crashed my hard drive.
Scott D
10/18/2006, 06:37 PM
no, your hard drive tried to commit suicide because you drive a vw, drink zima and go to baylor.
bearcat_sooner
10/18/2006, 07:20 PM
no, your hard drive tried to commit suicide because you drive a vw, drink zima and go to baylor.


Zima Zucks!!
GottaHavePride
10/18/2006, 08:04 PM
OK, so I dug around on cnet.com and apparently the big recommendations for this sort of stuff over there are Diskeeper for a defragmenter, and System Mechanic 6 (http://www.iolo.com) for a system maintenance utility. It's got some neat stuff like a registry cleaner, a utility to find and kill programs that set themselves to auto-run at startup, one that tracks down all the useless crap on your computer and cleans it out (internet temp files, unused .exe files, broken shortcuts, etc.)

I downloaded the free trial of that and right now it's cleaning about 700 MB of stuff that the windows disk cleanup utility didn't catch. Which makes me wonder how much porn my computer is watching when I'm not home. ;)
yermom
10/18/2006, 10:11 PM
i can't believe you just ratted out PG like that
GottaHavePride
10/18/2006, 10:19 PM
Heh.
Stoop Dawg
10/18/2006, 11:47 PM
no, your hard drive tried to commit suicide because you drive a vw, drink zima and go to baylor.

:eek:

Nice one.....
soonerboomer93
10/19/2006, 08:13 AM
I'm checking out system mechanic, we'll see how it works.
Norm In Norman
10/19/2006, 08:40 AM
The XP defragger is made by Diskkeeper. It looks exactly like the Diskeeper we used to use here at work way back about 6 or 7 years ago. My theory is the XP one defragments it enough to get the full benefit. Really, how much could a .005% defragmentation of your drive slow down your system? The biggest feature I care about is scheduling, which I don't know if you can do with XPs defragmenter.

I don't think you should defragment too often anyway. It seems like a lot of undo stress on your hard drive. I'm probably wrong though. I haven't researched it.
Norm In Norman
10/19/2006, 08:42 AM
The biggest feature I care about is scheduling, which I don't know if you can do with XPs defragmenter.
Do a simple search, you dumbass!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/gehrke1.mspx
Norm In Norman
10/19/2006, 08:50 AM
Do a simple search, you dumbass!

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/gehrke1.mspx
To top off the stupidity, I ALREADY had a scheduled task set up to defrag my hard drive once a week. It hasn't worked in over 5 months because I used my network account to set it up and we change our passwords every month. So anyway, use the XP one.
soonerboomer93
10/19/2006, 08:51 AM
OK, so I dug around on cnet.com and apparently the big recommendations for this sort of stuff over there are Diskeeper for a defragmenter, and System Mechanic 6 (http://www.iolo.com) for a system maintenance utility. It's got some neat stuff like a registry cleaner, a utility to find and kill programs that set themselves to auto-run at startup, one that tracks down all the useless crap on your computer and cleans it out (internet temp files, unused .exe files, broken shortcuts, etc.)

I downloaded the free trial of that and right now it's cleaning about 700 MB of stuff that the windows disk cleanup utility didn't catch. Which makes me wonder how much porn my computer is watching when I'm not home. ;)

I don't think the windows disk cleanup checks the c:\documents and settings\username\local settings\temp of c:\windows\temp file locations. I always manually clean out those 2 locations myself
GottaHavePride
10/19/2006, 10:51 AM
Yeah, it took a while to clean all those.