View Full Version : Diskeeper - defrag after 2 hours?
Maleku
05-05-2006, 08:22 AM
My harddrive according to the analysis done by Diskeeper is becoming severely fragmented after only a few hours of use. I use my PC for mostly games and browsing the internet. Everynight before bed I will run a defrag where the anaysis will always report a WARNING after only 2 hours of gameplay. When the defrag is complete it will report HEALTHY but sure enough after 2 more hours of gaming it reports a WARNING again. Is Diskeeper a very persistant program regarding defragmenting or should I be looking into the settings on my PC? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
My specs are:
AMD Athlon 3700+
BFG 7800GT
2 gigs RAM
Seagate Barracuda 80 gig HD
Running Windows XP
EzyStvy
05-05-2006, 08:30 AM
I went into Services and disable diskeepers stupid service....I don't need to be reminded when to defrag..Even defragging and rebooting can trigger DK to want to defrag....
Maleku
05-05-2006, 08:46 AM
Thanks Ezy. So do you think Diskeeper is giving me an inaccurate analysis on my drive? Shows an aweful lot of "red" files after a couple of hours of use.
How full is the drive? Diskeeper Lite will nag you to death, but the paid version will defrag in the background on a schedule with no nags.
Maleku
05-05-2006, 09:03 AM
Using the paid for version. My drive is only 40% used. I don't have the scheduling option on. I just start the anaysis each night after gaming and the report always shows a warning.
EzyStvy
05-05-2006, 11:02 AM
Shows an aweful lot of "red" files after a couple of hours of use. -> That's normal...
DoomLord
05-06-2006, 09:00 PM
Yeah,me too. After an evening of Quake 4, Diskeeper shows a lot of "low performance"
(red) files and folders,so I just have it defrag;but if you do it often,even on a big drive,it's not that bad.
DoomLord
I just use set it and forget it and let it do it when it wants to. It kicks in once or twice a day, but only takes about a minute or two.
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