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| 133324 | 2003-04-04 08:32:00 | What do you reckon is the best defrag program for xp. I was using power defrag for 98 but it wont run on xp. Thanks in advance. | dumb-bell (3303) | ||
| 133325 | 2003-04-04 08:51:00 | Diskeeper 7 or Norton Utilities 2003 Speed Disk ( as recommended in Aprils PC World ) and I personally recommend Diskeeper. Although XP has a "lite" version anyway.... :-) |
minos#2 (318) | ||
| 133326 | 2003-04-04 09:03:00 | The built in version in XP seems to do a fine job, I am not sure you would gain anything with a third party application? | godfather (25) | ||
| 133327 | 2003-04-04 09:21:00 | Hi, Defrag tools are all the same. They perform the same duty as any other, but its more likely how they arrange and organise data on disk, that will determine which one will be the best to use. Like as I would of said too If I had posted much sooner......You wouldn't gain anything with a third party application. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 133328 | 2003-04-04 11:12:00 | apart from diskeeper lite being much quicker... | Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 133329 | 2003-04-04 11:22:00 | here it is (www.grassheap.com) at only 10mb but worth it... | Trev0 (1995) | ||
| 133330 | 2003-04-04 19:56:00 | >>Defrag tools are all the same. You are way off mark there. Assuming XP's defrag is the same as 2000 it is very hard to tell exactly what it does but the older defrags never moved system files or the swap files. If they were all the same no one would bother to produce another one. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 133331 | 2003-04-05 07:19:00 | I use diskkeeper lite. Don't think it does anything better than other ones but it is fast. Though as Graham L says, a defrag is like an oil change in a car it's a major operation. |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 133332 | 2003-04-05 08:00:00 | > > > Defrag tools are all the same . > You are way off mark there . OK . (In my humble opinion)? Assuming XP's defrag is > the same as 2000 it is very hard to tell exactly what > it does but the older defrags never moved system > files or the swap files . Past and to the Present versions of Disk Defragmentator originate from the same Software Company "Executive Software" which have been used for Windows 2000 - XP . But only in lite versions . I know for sure that XP and 2000 are the case . !! As for older defrags never moved system files or swap files, I haven't yet within my experience (I stand corrected) found any utility that can do this for you . The only way which I have known in relevance to Page \ Swap file, is to 'manually' (using the O . S . ) to move this file to another partition or secondary drive if available . If they were all the same > no one would bother to produce another one . If its the same company, they would just make minor changes to suit your O . S . |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 133333 | 2003-04-05 11:37:00 | I've gotta admit to knowing nothing about defraging , but why is diskeeper lite much, much quicker than the XP defragger if they're made by the same people to do the same job?? do you think that diskeeper lite is not as good as defrag XP? and if so why not??! and does it matter?? Trev |
Trev0 (1995) | ||
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