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Kaiten · Local time: Apr 9, 2006, 06:44 PM

Easily Diskeeper. It defrags lightning fast and in the background (it pauses when you use the HDD). It also can defrag at boot time and consolidate your MFT.
The recommended version is Diskeeper 10 Professional Premier if you use WinXP Home, but if you use WinXP Pro, Server Enerprise is the best route (note: you'll need to download an illegal copy of each if you don't want to pay hell-loads of money).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Kaiten · Local time: Apr 11, 2006, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by T1249NTSCJ

Agreed there, Diskeeper seems to do a good enough job maintaining files for quick access. By the way, Kaiten you wouldn't happen to have Diskeeper 10 on you?

I do and it works great, Server Enterprise is only for business and server OSes though (such as all flavors of Win2k, WinXP Pro and Server 2003).
There are many newer features over version 9, best of which, background defrag doesn't interrupt what you're doing at all anymore.

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Kaiten · Local time: Apr 11, 2006, 07:15 PM

Originally Posted by subferno

Diskeeper is really fast but it doesnt defrag as well as PerfectDisk.

How so? Properly configured, Diskeeper eliminates all fragments and consolidates free space. Also it defrags the Page File and MFT if needed.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Kaiten · Local time: Apr 11, 2006, 09:58 PM

Originally Posted by Merv Burger

I like Diskeeper, unfortunately it's service is terrible at sticking to the schedule you set for it.

Apparently when you say "Weekends only, from 3 AM to 9AM," it doesn't think you really mean it, or something.

I've gotten that too, but it does have a primary and secondary schedule (also with version 10 an additional I-FAAST defrag method).
With a decent PC and version 10, Diskeeper shoudn't even impact your HDD usage at all. I have a crappy 5400 RPM (not sure but likely) ATA66 hard drive and it doesn't slow Windows down defragging as near as much version 9 did.

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Kaiten · Local time: Apr 16, 2006, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by Hyuga Jehuty

I love PerfectDisk. I tried O&O and Diskeeper before, and I think that PerfectDisk is the best of the lot. It's pretty fast, and fragmentation isn't really so bad afterwards. Also, it actually defrags the Page File(I don't recall either of the other 2 doing it because it wouldn't try to move existing files out of the way to put the Page File in a continuous space. I haven't used DK10 though, so maybe its much better than 9).

Actually DK10 is much better than 9. Both versions can defragment the page file, you need the professional version or higher though to use it.
BTW are any of these defrag programs freeware? Maybe I'll try them.

I was speaking idiomatically.