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Hi Guys,

I have got windows xp professional. I want to install a BEST AND COMPLETLY FREE DEFRAGMENT SOFTWARE. Which one is best out of your experience?

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Re: Degrament software

How to Defragment Your Disk Drive Volumes in Windows XP

Hope this helps

Re: Degrament software

You do know that the Title of the Thread is misleading.
Any use

Auslogics Disk Defrag

Re: Degrament software

There are two giants (both paid) in the Defrag industry:
PerfectDisk (i am using it currently)
Diskeeper (Said to share the position with PD)

For freeware, i'd say Defraggler by Piriform does a good job on XP..

Re: Degrament software

I can't really see the point of using a PAID software when Freewares can efficiently do the job.

Re: Degrament software

hp tune up utilities.. its a complete package which include the defragmenter also..

An there is the problem. Its a paid software and the Defragment Utility is not that good for me. I mean its real slow for my liking.

gameranand said:
An there is the problem. Its a paid software and the Defragment Utility is not that good for me. I mean its real slow for my liking.

you talking about tune up utilities??

Yes I am.

Download the Tune 13 from net and i'l give you the key and patch if you want or you can download them too, they are available on net, you just have to search for it..

^^ I know the way out but No Piracy talk here, it might get you an infraction.

@Shashank
No wonder you got the infection. No antivirus software can help you.

Shashank Joshi said:
Download the Tune 13 from net and i'l give you the key and patch if you want or you can download them too, they are available on net, you just have to search for it..

I think you are talking about a legitimate key and a update patch ;-)

anyway, apart from Autologics ( free ) the best paid defrag app I've used is O&O Defrag and I said used coz it's has a free version now - go get it Asap :
O&O Defrag Free Edition

topgear said:
I think you are talking about a legitimate key and a update patch

anyway, apart from Autologics ( free ) the best paid defrag app I've used is O&O Defrag and I said used coz it's has a free version now - go get it Asap :
O&O Defrag Free Edition

thanks man..

Alien said:
@Shashank
No wonder you got the infection. No antivirus software can help you.

My Norton Anti-virus was paid.. I cant take chances with loss of data..

My Norton Anti-virus was paid.. I cant take chances with loss of data..[/QUOTE said:
BTW whats the problem with the inbuilt defragment tool?

Best paid: Raxco PerfectDisk
Best free: Auslogics Disk Defrag

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Harsh Pranami said:
BTW whats the problem with the inbuilt defragment tool?

I have the same question.

Harsh Pranami said:
BTW whats the problem with the inbuilt defragment tool?

i'm using the tune up utilities defragmenter and it is working perfectly as for now..

@OP: get a decent defrag free tool..coz u won't be defraging the drive everyday (required once in a while)

topgear said:
I think you are talking about a legitimate key and a update patch

You know he ain't but nice move.

Harsh Pranami said:
BTW whats the problem with the inbuilt defragment tool?

Real slow.

gameranand said:
You know he ain't but nice move.

Real slow.

i kinda was.. :liar:

Zangetsu said:
@OP: get a decent defrag free tool..coz u won't be defraging the drive everyday (required once in a while)

This.

I can't even remeber when i manually ran a disk defrag .. win vista/7/8 optimizes the HDD when not in use though this can be disable ( for SSD ) but it's good for HDDs IMO but when I need to manually defrag HDD I do use 3rd party tools which shows me the overall progress in a nice format and not to mention with more speed and less time.

topgear said:
I can't even remeber when i manually ran a disk defrag .. win vista/7/8 optimizes the HDD when not in use though this can be disable ( for SSD ) but it's good for HDDs IMO but when I need to manually defrag HDD I do use 3rd party tools which shows me the overall progress in a nice format and not to mention with more speed and less time.

Imagine my condition. 4 TB to defragment means around 12-14 hours.

meh... you don't need to defrag those media and iso files and even steam backups. only the system partition need to be defragged.

Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly.

gameranand said:
Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly.

Regularly?? As in every second month or every month??

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kumarn_2004 said:
Hi Guys,

I have got windows xp professional. I want to install a BEST AND COMPLETLY FREE DEFRAGMENT SOFTWARE. Which one is best out of your experience?

IObit defrag is both feature rich and is having satisfying perfomance.

gameranand said:
Yeah well I defragged them like in a year but didn't knew that it would take that much time. As for System drive, I defrag that regularly.

Haven't defrag my 2nd rig since ages, yet to see any performance degradation.

the inbuilt XP defrag tool is fine for OP..

i use TuneUp and it does a very good job.

IMO, only system partition [C:] defrag is must every 3-4months. othe partitions, about once a year.

I use this regularly, works wonders: Best Free Disk Defrag Software, your free disk defragmenter FOREVER

Just never defrag your C Drive, use this instead, works wonders: How to speed up boot process under Windows Vista or Windows 7 - MSFN Forum

Shashank Joshi said:
Regularly?? As in every second month or every month??

Every month or 40 days or so.

Skud said:
Haven't defrag my 2nd rig since ages, yet to see any performance degradation.

Well the performance difference was not that much but its was noticeable.

forgot to mention before - ultradefrag - this Open Source De-Fragment software is also very good :
UltraDefrag - An Open Source Defragmenter

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topgear said:
I can't even remeber when i manually ran a disk defrag .. win vista/7/8 optimizes the HDD when not in use though this can be disable ( for SSD ) but it's good for HDDs IMO but when I need to manually defrag HDD I do use 3rd party tools which shows me the overall progress in a nice format and not to mention with more speed and less time.

Can it be checked if a HDD is automatically defragmented, if yes, how?

gameranand said:
Every month or 40 days or so.

Well the performance difference was not that much but its was noticeable.

How do you come to know the difference between a drive which is not defragmented and which is?

rohit0571 said:
Can it be checked if a HDD is automatically defragmented, if yes, how?

How do you come to know the difference between a drive which is not defragmented and which is?

Usually the software does it for you..

rohit0571 said:
Can it be checked if a HDD is automatically defragmented, if yes, how?
How do you come to know the difference between a drive which is not defragmented and which is?

1. Yeah usually software does than and if not necessary then it won't defragment the drive.
2. By running benchmarks before defragmentation and after defragmentation. You can also notice it when doing any work, I mean if the HDD is too fragmented and you defragment it then files will open up faster, copy speeds will increase a bit and overall experience will improve.

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gameranand said:
1. Yeah usually software does than and if not necessary then it won't defragment the drive.
2. By running benchmarks before defragmentation and after defragmentation. You can also notice it when doing any work, I mean if the HDD is too fragmented and you defragment it then files will open up faster, copy speeds will increase a bit and overall experience will improve.

Thanks. But I know this. But I have been using 2-3 defragmentation softwares earlier (window's own S.ware, iobit and tried some others too). But if I run 2 different defragmentators, they show different analysis.

But anyways, thanks for the help.

rohit0571 said:
Thanks. But I know this. But I have been using 2-3 defragmentation softwares earlier (window's own S.ware, iobit and tried some others too). But if I run 2 different defragmentators, they show different analysis.

But anyways, thanks for the help.

Why do you need two different tools to monitor a HDD for defragmentation? Different tools have different algorithms to track and depict frag levels...the fragmentation you see is a logical representation of your HDD total filespace vacant and resident space, its not physical, tools would differ in that too, even disk accessing algorithms and methods are different too...liike C-SCAN, F-SCAN, SVF etc...

.stick to any one of them and use it as your purpose serves. Remember evevery defrag operation will imply a certain wear and tear to your HDD platters, different defraggers will also do these differently, so why put that poor thing in a tug-o-war! There is nothing called an over-defrag and no one faced HDD crash from it as i know of..still..treat him with care

Do you guys know defragmenting C drive slows the OS down? Because in C Drive the files are optimized to load in order when OS boots, defragmenting it actually rearranges the files, if you want to speed up your Windows use the method I posted here: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/software-q/169559-defragment-software-2.html#post1833050
(Its not just a registry clean type tool, this actually invokes the process to optimze the files to load according to order).

This is same as the bootvis tool in Win XP.

^^ thanks for the MSFN link, nice to see some people still care about HDD ;-)

will try it! thanks for the link

topgear said:
^^ thanks for the MSFN link, nice to see some people still care about HDD

I have a 1.5 GB PATA HDD which is 16 years old, has windows 95 in it and still boots if connected with proper cable

donate it to the Indian Museum.. a few years later people are gonna flock to the Museum to see a 1.5GB HDD and Win95

sam_738844 said:
I have a 1.5 GB PATA HDD which is 16 years old, has windows 95 in it and still boots if connected with proper cable

Pic or it didn't happen

sam_738844 said:
I have a 1.5 GB PATA HDD which is 16 years old, has windows 95 in it and still boots if connected with proper cable

are you sure it's 6 or 16 coz the first 1TB HDD was introduced to the market on 2006/2007 - period.

topgear said:
are you sure it's 6 or 16 coz the first 1TB HDD was introduced to the market on 2006/2007 - period.

He is talking in GB not TB bro.

sam_738844 said:
I have a 1.5 GB PATA HDD which is 16 years old, has windows 95 in it and still boots if connected with proper cable

epic..

^^ pure hoax ;-)

gameranand said:
He is talking in GB not TB bro.

may be

but sam_738844 said his 1.5TB pata HDD is 16 years old which is no way possible.