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Best defragmenter for XP?

  • 04-04-2012 3:29am
    #1
    LaVail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭


    Just finished up a 10 day trial of raxco "perfectdisk" and was well impressed. Its $30 to buy and if all else fails I think I'll buy it but just to be sure I'm wondering if any of you know of better software?

    o&o seems to be another fairly decent one, any of you have experience with it?


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  • #2
    jay-me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭jay-me


    LaVail wrote: »
    Just finished up a 10 day trial of raxco "perfectdisk" and was well impressed. Its $30 to buy and if all else fails I think I'll buy it but just to be sure I'm wondering if any of you know of better software?

    o&o seems to be another fairly decent one, any of you have experience with it?
    From what I have read you're better off sticking to the built in one for disk health etc... But otherwise defraggler is great and free!


  • #3
    LaVail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    jay-me wrote: »
    From what I have read you're better off sticking to the built in one for disk health etc... But otherwise defraggler is great and free!

    Do you use defraggler yourself? I've heard about it in the past but am wary of popular free ones because a lot of the time they're useless.

    My computer was in tatters, freezing and the like but when I ran perfectdisk the other day it sorted out all the issues I was facing. It took about two hours to do but I'd rather that then something like auslogics that takes 5mins.


  • #4
    fionny
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    Ive used defraggler and its grand no hassle with it etc...


  • #5
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    +1 on defraggler

    http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

    I also own perfectdisk 12.5 which as you say is a very good defraggler too.


  • #6
    BailMeOut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭BailMeOut


    I like http://www.mydefrag.com/

    free, lightweight and has some nice options.

    I set to run as a screensaver.


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  • #7
    Torqay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,835 ✭✭✭Torqay


    As far as freebies go, Smart Defrag does as good a job as any (portable version here).

    Mark Russinovich's PageDefrag should be mentioned as well has his command line "defraggler" Contig (Too geeky? Want a GUI for it? Get Power Defragmenter).

    As for the performance of any defraggler, there's a lot to be said for using a separate partition for your operating system. ;)


  • #8
    LaVail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,619 ✭✭✭LaVail


    Had no internet all day lads so couldn't reply sooner.

    Cheers for all the replies...I'll try defraggler and see how it goes.

    Cheers.


  • #9
    Dempsey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭Dempsey


    Any performance reviews on this defrag programs?


  • #10
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    Defraggler?
    http://download.cnet.com/Defraggler/3000-2248_4-10752905.html
    http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,72958-order,4/description.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defraggler


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