PC utilities: Auslogics Disk Defrag

We have some long posts about defrag.

by R. Proffitt  - 1/9/08 8:30 AM

Basically you run it and then do so next month and your done. I had this neighbor that it looked like he bought the computers so he could run defrag.

Don't get sucked into this vortex.

Bob

Defrag

Bob and Charlie,
Thank you very much for replies.
I suspected that additional programs to do the same thing are likely to do the same thing, no magic here.

I must admit that I would like to see smarter defrag, that analyses particular program’s behaviour and instead of pushing everything to front of disk in alphabetical order, instead Defragmenter could take into account program’s changes in size, frequency of changes and nature like, does it only get larger with time? Does it stay the same in size?

In current times that we have smart programs to analyse our shopping behaviour, there could be smart defrag programs that take into account life of program and if it grows, give it more breathing space, if it stays about the same give it not as much extra room.
(I Obit Smart Defrag – claims to be something like that, but I am in no position to be able to say if this is what the program does and if it doesn’t interfere with Windows defrag)

there are such options

Some of the third party defragmenters have such options to arrange certain files at the edge of the platter which is the fastest part of the disk. For eg, in some of the Diskeeper versions, there is something called ifaast; it runs for a few days in the background and looks at the file activity. During a defrag, it then moves the most frequently accessed files to the fastest part of the drive. I <i>think</i>, but I am not sure at all, that there is an option to manually select what files you want moved too.

RE: reply to: Defrag

"that analyses particular program’s behaviour"
You don't need to do anything here.
The Prefetch feature does this and automatically updates it's self.

"Defragmenter could take into account program’s changes in size, frequency of changes and nature like, does it only get larger with time? Does it stay the same in size?"
The OS takes care of this. And the NTFS file system used by XP and later does a particularly good job of it. The only thing you have to do is be sure to run Defrag occasionally, once a month is plenty adequate for most home/office users.

If you are running Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista go to http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/ download and install the proper JkDefrag zip file for your Operating System Then scroll down to near the bottom of the page, download and install "Pagedefrag". Place the Pagedefrag tool inside the JkDefrag folder. This way JkDefrag will automatically run Page Defrag while JkDefrag is running. Open JkDefrag, select "Disk Cleanup". Click on the Configure button and select all items EXCEPT "Compress old files" and
"Catalogue files for the Content Indexer" and click OK. You can also select ChkDsk, but that will probably take 45-60 minutes to run, reqires the XP disk and usually is not even necessary. Also, select "Disk Defragmenter" and then select "Kessles
Defragmenter" from the dropdown menu. Click on the Configure button to the right of "Disk Defragmenter and select the drives you want to defrag. Do not defrag any
drives or partitions that exclusively hold a recovery console (it probably
wouldn't defrag any way.) Select "Full Optimization" and "Warning messages (default)" then click OK. Under "When Scandefrag finishes" select "Restart computer" (this will optimize the boot/startup sequence. Then click Save >
Run.

Once this is setup, running this will simply be a few clicks. If you want to see how well JkDefrag does, run Analyze with the Windows Defrag tool following a defrag with the Windows Defrag tool and after running JkDefrag. I think you will be a bit surprised.

Charlie

IObit

Has one major advantage over the rest. It runs in "real time" as you run the computer. This keep fragmentation out as you run the system. There is a very slight system speed loss due to this feature but the time saving are worth it. It also does a very good job of optimizing the Hard drive something many of the others do not perform. I use this program and think it's the best I've used to date. I am not affiliated with this company, just like there software.

Also, shrinking your hard drive can speed up defragmentation by reducing the size of the drive. In Vista, the path is Start> control panel> administrative tools> computer management> disk management. Just right click on a drive and choose shrink. It's safe, I've changed the size of my drives many times. You can extend them as well.

(NT) Wait for new version?

by R. Proffitt  - 1/26/08 6:01 AM