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    Hard Drive Defragment Software

    Hi guys.

    Trig has recently mentioned that he uses O&O's defrag software.

    Anyone else use something other than XP's built in defragger?

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    IIRC the Win XP defragger is a cut down version of diskeeper, which was quite a good one to start with

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    I use diskeeper lite it works really well its free and much much faster than the xp one.

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    I started off with the Lite version and agree with teachmech, its a very nice defragger. Then shifted to the full version, for the scheduling features as well as the MFT/paging file defrag. the drive is kept defragmented and have no problems whtsoever with it.

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    I agree with others on diskeeper, it does its job perfectly. Also the enterprise edition does great job on servers which gets defragged very frequently. 10 points for it.

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    O&O here.

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    so....what do they do that's BETTER than XP?

    DO they move the swap file/page file to the outer edge of the hdd?

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    Actually, if you don't mind the defrag running at boot time, then you could do a lot worse than PageDefrag from Sysinternals. It does pagefiles, registry hives, all that stuff, and can run at the next reboot or at every boot. And it's free. That plus the built-in Windows defragger does nicely, I think.

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    I use O&O on my 64bit and 32bit machines, and it's spot on.

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    Raxco Perfectdisk for me as well, first runs takes a bit of time, but then it flys through
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    With me its always a choice between O&O and raxco. Excellent results every time. At the moment im sticking with raxco however. Although most of my friends prefer diskeeper. At the high end of the spectrum those 3 seem to be king.

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    Once wrote a small command line based app that would defrag specified files. Worked like a charm
    To err is human. To really foul things up ... you need a computer.

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    Diskeeper 10 works great for me.

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    Please forgive my ignorance here guys but could You tell me what the difference is between mentioned defragger software. Is it just down to speed?

    Cheers.

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