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Idle Defrag Recommendations

Last post 08-13-2008, 5:00 PM by FascistNation. 9 replies.
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  •  07-05-2008, 7:15 AM 351440

    Idle Defrag Recommendations

    Not sure whether I'm in the right place...Stick out tongue

    Well, not familiar with it but wonder whether i would get such a tool that can defrag my HD while the computer is idle for 10 minutes and stop defragging on un-idle.

    And I would like it to check the current fragmentation percentage and the fragmentation is over a certain level (say, 20% fragmentation). Hope sth like this will keep my hard drive in tip-top shape while not shortening its life-span with unnecessary defrags.

    A side note, I'm wondering if that having at least 15% free disk space really makes a difference or not; or does it only really require about double the size of the largest file on the disk?

    Ideas? Thanks in advance for any replies. XD


  •  07-05-2008, 9:58 AM 351488 in reply to 351440

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    Well there is not one that you can set in idle defrag. However the rest that you ask for yes there is a app that will do that.

    http://www.diskeeper.com/downloads/downloads-r.asp

     


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  •  07-05-2008, 11:16 AM 351521 in reply to 351440

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    There are several good freeware defrag and windows care programs that will run in the background. I use Advanced Windows Care beta version 3.21 and IObit go to this link for free downloads.

    http://www.majorgeeks.com/


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  •  07-05-2008, 8:54 PM 351728 in reply to 351521

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    thumbs up on the IObit there HH,,,good background defrag, keeps the hdd pretty clean,,,i been usin it for quite a while now,,good free program,,,,,Yes

  •  07-06-2008, 8:55 AM 351916 in reply to 351728

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    Yep it does work nice, also there are the boys downunder at Aussie Logic they have some good stuff out too.Yes

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  •  07-07-2008, 6:22 AM 352432 in reply to 351916

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    U awesome. Yes

    Thanks very much for all ur nice inputs. Woohoo I will try 'em to see which one works best. lol


  •  07-07-2008, 6:42 AM 352447 in reply to 352432

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    Glad to have been of help enjoy.Big Smile

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  •  07-07-2008, 7:58 AM 352502 in reply to 352447

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    Thanks for the input of Advanced Windows Care beta version 3.21 HH. I tried it the only thing is the defrag get stuck on mine, but the rest of the tools are great. Thanks for the recommendation on it.


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  •  07-09-2008, 9:39 AM 354184 in reply to 351440

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    For idle/automatic defragmentation, Diskeeper 2008 is the best by far. It was specifically engineered for this, and runs transparently in the background using minimal resources. Does an excellent job on both my computers (Vista and XP) and I highly recommend it. Once you install it, you'll never have to worry about defragging again...Diskeeper does everything on it's own.Cool
    They have free trial versions at their website.
  •  08-13-2008, 5:00 PM 373815 in reply to 351440

    Re: Idle Defrag Recommendations

    I generally do not think this is worthy of setting up a constantly running defrag program.  Diskkeeper is the gold standard, but it still grabs too much CPU utilization for my tastes.  I would rather schedule a defrag or start one before I go to sleep (some have an option to shut down your system once they are finished (here are some free defraggers - I have used Defragler, JkDefrag and O+O and they work fine)...or your S3 can take care of it after whatever time of inactivity you set it at to shift you into standby mode.  As above, you can also automate using this procedure (assumes XP) from Microsoft.  You can actually modify this to use any program.  Lastly if you want a really nice powerful, fairly fast defragger from Microsoft (free) Sysinternals, try the command line program Contig.  If you would prefer a GUI to run it try, PowerDefragmenter.  Both it and Contig must be present in the same folder (directory).  Here is a review of the GUI.  Lastly, if you only wish to defrag your page file and registry hives, which most defraggers won't touch, here is another Microsoft Sysinternals program, PageDefrag.  It is a GUI.  All programs listed here are FREE.

    Edit: I should add that Contig will take some long pauses, don't worry, when it is completed it will simply close itself (the command window) down. If your hard drive is very full, it will take several passes to defragment everything...but you would be well advised to get a bigger hard drive it this is a problem, otherwise everything is generally done in a single pass.

     


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