----- Original Message ---- > From: Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> > I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. > I >want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work. > >Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask because I don't >want to install something and not know what I am installing. You know, some >program with a nasty virus attached or something. > > I did Google and found a lot of tools but I'm not sure which one to trust. > If >someone here has used one before and trusts the one they used, I would be >happy >to hear about it.
Well, the build-in version of the Defrag program is a really a shill. But that's mostly b/c Microsoft is licensing a stripped down version of a really good piece of software called "Disk Keeper" (http://www.diskeeper.com/). While it's not free, open source, etc. the price is worth it to keep a Windows system in check and running smoothly. Ben
