Windows Vista Tips: Disk Defragmenter
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Windows Disk Defragmenter is a handy tool that may help you gain some extra performance from your PC. When Vista writes to your hard drive the bits of information that make up a file can be spread all over the disk (this is called fragmentation).The “defrag” tool will try to join up all of the parts that makes up files so that they are in the same location, decreasing the time it takes to find all of the parts.
To load Windows Defrag, run dfrgui.exe from the run box (Press WINDOWS KEY + R to load this). In this window you can choose to “Defragment Now” if you wish to perform this operation now, or alternatively you can schedule a time for your PC to defrag automatically (ideally when you are not using your PC):
If you click the button to defrag immediately, you will be informed that this is in progress but there is no graphical indicator like in previous versions of degrag.
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I didn’t like Vista’s defragmenter right from the beginning. It’s just way too slow (ran for 8 hours straight once) and does not defrag all the files properly. I currently use, and highly recommend the utility called Diskeeper 2009 for defragmenting.
http://www.diskeeper.com
It’s got a full user interface, defrags quickly and defrags very thoroughly, including system files. Best of all, you can leave it in automatic mode, and never worry about defragging.
In Vista, I feel I am not in control of whats happening with the defrag. Without a GUI its difficult to guage the progress. I changed to Diskeeper and am sticking to it! It runs so smoothly in the background and defrags even if the free space is less than 15%.