[PapaG39]

I just finished my 30 day trial of "Diskeeper" It's a utility that will not only do the "C" drive, but will defrag the computer startup items when you reboot.

I did notice some improvement the first time that I ran the startup sequence of the utility.

I have been reading lots of stuff on various defrag utilities & there seem to be as many opinions as there are different utilities.

What I am wondering is:

Just how crazy does a person need to get on a defrag utility for a homel computer?

1) The MS defrag utility that comes with XP Pro. How thorough is it compaired to a "Buy Me" defrag utility such as Diskeeper.

Does ms defrag put all of the files from one game all in order or are they just strung out throughout the drive ?

What I am trying to find out is whether or not the defrag process puts different pieces of software all together or just bunches all of the files together leaving no open spaces.

Are there any free defrag utilities that work better the the ms one or do I need to buy one to get a thorough defrag or is the ms defrag utility sufficient?

Hope I'm making sense here...

To buy or not to buy...that is the question...lol.. :?:

[GeneralPsycho]

One of my questions is what is defrag for? and what does it do to make a boot up faster? :?

[Guest]

Never heard of anyone buying software to defrag their disc. The xp one is good, just slow. Save your money use the inbuilt one and go and have lunch while it does it's job.

S!

[PapaG39]

Hans..
Go here: http://www.tweakguides.com/System.html

Click on "system Guides" and download "tweaking Companion". Starting on page 69 it will give you a good read for Defrag...

There is a wealth of information that you may enjoy reading...

[C2Aaircrew]

You might try IObit's defrag program. Check out their products. I can honestly say I am completely satisfied with their products. I use the defrag and Window's Personal Care programs all the time.

http://www.iobit.com/index.html

Take care,

C2

[stansdds]

Another satisfied IObit user here.

[PapaG39]

Thanks for the input . I wish I would have run across this information a few montlhs ago.

The defrag seems fine, but it doesn't appear that it does a "boot" defrag scenario though.

That Windows Personal Care looks good, but a few months ago I purchased for $20 bucks, Tuneup utilities 2008, which does the same thing... free would have been better though...lol..

Just cleaning up those loose ends in the regestry seem to help unclog the works nicely...That, along with the "boot up" defrag really speeded up my loading times in everything.

There has got to be a freeware defrag out there somewhere that also will do a "boot" defrag which can only be done within the boot sequence when restarting the computer.

The first time I ran that program on deskeeper I was actually amazed how fast my computer booted up. I guess the start sequence was really in bad shape...

Every little bit helps I guess...