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    Is windows just dumb?

    Was talkin to pvtpyle on MSn and we were talking bout defragging, so I jumped into windows defragger...



    umm?!?!?!

    how can an OS jumble up nealy half of my files???

    and telling it to defrag, it has a hissy fit cause i dont have 15% free disk space?? Im sure 11.6 gig is more than enough to move files round!!


    So, anyone got any recomendations for a GOOD defragger? or something that can run in the background and fix what windows does to my files?

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    The Windows Defrag has served me well.

    The 15% overhead is there as swap space, because the files may be very large and with defragmented files windows has to realign them all.

    Admitidly (sp) the most likely reason for 15% is that this defrag hasn't changed much from the win95 ones. A new one is in the pipeline for winfs.
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    Use diskeeper 9. You can set it to defrag when the screensaver comes on in the "set it and forget it" option.
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    I have O&O (licensed via work) and its excellent.

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    One of the biggest culprits I've found is the swapfile, especially if you have it set to be dynamically sized. I've frequently used PageDefrag, which is free.

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    I use O&O too. much better than windows own defrag and more options too ...
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    I've used O&O and Diskeeper 9, both are good and recommended. Personally I am using Diskeeper atm, I prefer the interface and the set and forget option works really well.
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