While you may be able to get a *technically* superior defrag with any number of paid products, the question remains... does that result in better performance that you can notice?
The answer in most cases is "no". I find it sufficient to do a safe mode defrag and then use a free add-on for continuous defrag (a feature offered by some paid products). Safe mode defrag: 1. Delete Temporary Internet Files of all users. 2. Set "no paging file" for the drive being defragged (if any exists). If this is your only page file and you have less than 256MB RAM, you can establish a paging file on another drive, or skip this step. 3. Reboot into safe mode. 4. Defrag normally. 5. If you have time, repeat the defrag a couple times or as much as you want until it completes in a minute or two. 6. Re-establish the page file if you got rid of it in (2). Set a custom size with the Initial and Maximum values identical. Your page file is now defragmented and will never fragment. 7. Reboot to normal mode. Now that you have a superior defrag of this drive, download and install this program: http://www.dirms.com/HOME/docs/buzzsaw_service.asp (there are other defrag programs at this site, but this is the only one that is worth bothering with, IMHO). You'll need to add the Buzzsaw GUI to your Startup programs, which provides a tray icon from which you can manage and monitor the continous defrag service. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Windows Home/SOHO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McPeak, Harry D. Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: SOFT: Diskeeper vs. XP defrag This is a follow up to my question about using Diskeeper to manipulate the MFT. Does anyone have enough experience with Diskeeper to know if it is worth buying instead of using the stripped down version that comes as defrag w/ XP? TIA, Harry -- ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is your picture included in the Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page? http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html If not, write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
