Defragmenting

[Prometheus]

Does anyone know a good defrag program that has the system clean up stuff i can download?

[RJ]

Windows' own defrag tool works pretty good.

If you look for alternatives then look for Diskeeper and O&O, they're very good, but not free.

RJ

[Prometheus]

thanks

[Panama Red]

XP's defrag is great. 98 needs to be run from Safe Mode to work best.

[Jaggannath]

I use XP, and it does the job well. I've heard some people complain about it though, and as I've never tried another I can't compare effectiveness

[Prometheus]

Yeah I used it last night. I thought it was going to be like those old win98 defrags that takes hours to complete. It only took me about 30-1hour to complete.

[Panama Red]

Originally posted by Prometheus
It only took me about 30-1hour to complete.

You must have a large (over 120Gb) hard drive and it's not partitoned. By partitioning the hard drive and keeping the XP and drivers on the primary partition, page file on it's own, program files on another partition and pictures, music and misc files on partitions that are 25 - 30 Gb each, you can cut the XP defrag time to less than 5 minutes. The other partitions don't see as much activity so each should take less that 2 min to defrag. On a stable system, I delete all but the latest Restore Point using Disk Cleanup before defragging as well as deleting all Temp files, Cookies, Temp Int Files, and dump the Recycle Bin.

[Prometheus]

How do I delete past restoration points?

[Panama Red]

Go into Disk Cleanup, click the options tab, look at the bottom. Just make sure 'Compress files" is NOT checked on the first page.

[Prometheus]

Have you ever heard of a program called System Mechanic 4 Professional? Its about 40$ USC and it handles spyware, defrag, etc. You know anything about it?

[Panama Red]

Only 'fix all' type program I've ever used is Norton System Works and most of it was redundant to XP's native tools and it seemed quite bloated. Pulled it off the machine I had tried it on. Not familiar with System Mechanic. Maybe someone else is tho'. I prefer my own "maintenance cocktail" of programs, most of which are recommended by many at PC Mech. Takes me about an hour to run maint. on 4 desktop's at work and about the same time for 4 desktops and two laptops at home.

[toomyg]

I'm not sure if this is what your really looking for but it defrags you pagefile and afew other things that the built in defrager can't do, But put together with the built in defrag it should help system performance alot

located here

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml