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Old 08-07-2004, 04:18 AM   #1
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Question Defragger Suggestions

It seems like I have heard that there are some third party degfraggers out there that are superior to the one that comes standard with W2K (which is what I run). Since it sounds a little dangerous to me just to start downloading random defraggers from the web and giving them free reign on my HDDs, I thought I would ask here what defraggers folks are happy with.

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Old 08-07-2004, 09:13 AM   #2
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Old 08-07-2004, 09:34 AM   #3
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I've heard they have a "Lite" version which is free (but doesn't have all the features) but couldn't find it at their site. Did they discontinue it?
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Old 08-07-2004, 12:21 PM   #4
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A family friend who has a computer business recommended Raxco Perfect Disk. I like it a lot, it's got the ability to defrag drives that are less than 5% full, as well as being able to defrag your page file, and some other things which you can look into more if you go to the website.
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Diskeeper Lite (free) hasn't been updated since the NT4 days - and it's no better than the builtin W2k defrag. I use Diskeeper Pro.
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Old 08-09-2004, 07:22 PM   #7
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Thank you for the info guys. I've been away for a few days...sorry for posting back so late.
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