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   Barry
   Member

   Hello,
   I found a free defrag tool made by Piriform, the same people that make CCleaner,it is called Defraggler. The program adds a interesting concept to normally boring process and that is, it gives you a list of what files that are fragmented, and then you have the option to defrag the whole hard drive or selected files. That could be a great time saver.
   If you are interested it can be found at:
   http://www.defraggler.com/
   One caution, the program is still in Beta.
   Good day,
   Barry

   Posted 16 years ago #
2. 

   FreewareFan
   Member

   Hello, Barry. Thanks for the tip!

   I'm going to just put this on my list of programs to watch, for now. After it gets past the beta stage, then I might trust it with my data. Until then, I'll just watch and see......

   Posted 16 years ago #
3. 

   slgraycols
   Member

   Hi, I've been using this for a few weeks now. Thought I discovered it on here but who knows where I found it. It is good for me because I almost never seem to have the required percentage of free hard drive space for Windows defragmenting tool to work. I believe it works though because after defragmenting almost my entire drive with defraggler, when I analyze my disk using the Windows defragmenting tool, it tells me that my disk doesn't need defragmenting. It won't completely defragment a few of my larger files (probably because of lack of space on my hard drive) but it does get them down to 2-3 fragmented pieces. I have used it a couple times a week. I can't tell if it has made an improvement in my system performance because I'm having other issues (ones I had before using this program) but it just makes me feel better to see the red pixels disappear on the graph.

   Posted 16 years ago #
4. 

   Barry
   Member

   Hi,
   I finally had some time to play with Defraggler, sorry to say, even though it has a interesting concept, the program has some problems on my XP SP2 system. After analyzing, it found and listed 3.2 GB of fragmented files, ran defrag and the program self aborted at 49%, ran the defrag again, and the program hung at 18% defragging the free space, for over an hour, before I aborted the procedure. It does defrag individual or selected files.
   Anyway as it stands I would not recommend using this program at this time, but in a week or so I will run another test, in the program's debug mode, to give the software a honest chance.
   You are right, slgraycols, there is something comforting watching, the red squares disappear, and the blue ones falling into place, it reminds me of the Windows 3.5 defragmenter, but not as nice to look at, oh man thinking about it, that was a few Christmases ago!
   Merry Christmas Everyone,
   Barry

   Posted 16 years ago #
5. 

   BuBBy
   Teh adnim

   Someone might want to test the Free defrag from Auslogics out. I think it might be a little more mature than defraggler (still early days).

   http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

   Posted 16 years ago #
6. 

   haalam
   Member

   Thank you very much for the Auslogics link, BuBBy. As I am a devout CCleaner user, I knew about Defraggler and I was waiting for it to come out of beta before trying. I have a paid version of Diskeeper on my desktop system, but I need a good defragger for my old and new laptop computers. Auslogics may be the one to use!

   Happy Holidays to All!

   Posted 16 years ago #

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