Re: Defrag

On 07/14/2008 05:00 PM, Alex Clayton wrote:
> THANK YOU!!!
> Now that was what I was looking for. It's running right now. After I spent
> most of the day setting this up loading stuff I wanted, deleting stuff I did
> not, I figured a defrag would be in order but the one with Vista ran twice
> for hours, then just said I needed to defrag without showing what was going
> on.
> I have avoided Vista like plague since I first tried one right after it
> hit. Now this one does seem to work fine but is taking a lot of getting used
> to, I will look at Amazon right now for that book.
> Thanks again.

Auslogics Disk Defrag is very, very poor - the algorithm it uses is
worse than the standard Vista defrag (which is based partially on the
Diskeeper engine).

If you want a very good and free defragger then check out JkDefrag:

http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/

If you're not into advanced settings, just double-click the exe and
everything will be defragged/optimized automatically.

However, I'd recommend getting the JkDefragGUI as well:

http://www.emro.nl/freeware/

where you can set everything you like... Read Jeoren Kessel's notes
about defragging etc. on his page. Generally it's recommended that you
do an extensive file-sorting on your partition dependent on what you are
using it for (usually sorting by name a.k.a. path is good enough
universally).

Best regards,

Lim-Dul