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From: occam on 2 Jan 2007 12:01
occam wrote:
> Dan wrote:
>> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:22:02 -0600, Bob Adkins <bobad(a)charter.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have tried 2 fairly new disk defrag utilities recently:
>>> "SmartDefrag" by IOBit
>>>
>>> Anyone tried either of them? Am I missing anything?
>>
>> I've been using Smart Defrag for quite a while.
>
> Really? It is still a beta. How long has it been in Beta?

Follow-up: Beta 1.0 apparently appeared 26 Oct. Beta 2 released 3 days
ago. I don't know about you, but your 'quite a while' is misleadingly
short period of time - especially for a piece of beta software.
From: Bob Adkins on 2 Jan 2007 12:05
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:47:29 -0800, Dan <noone(a)nowhere.com> wrote:


>As a alternative, DirMS and Buzzsaw provide defrag and resident-defrag
>services without a GUI.

Dirms is OK, and pretty quick. But I found Buzzsaw to be buggy. It
kept losing the drive I chose to monitor.

I'm starting to like SmartDefrag more and more.
-

Bob
From: Bob Adkins on 2 Jan 2007 12:08
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:30:31 +0000, Saxman


>Probably no better than windows built-in utility. Does state how much
>more efficient the computer is in percentage terms.

Probably true.

In fact, both programs are probably just a shell for Windows Defrag.
But SmartDefrag makes it easy to get to the options without having to
use complicated command line switches.
-

Bob
From: Gilhooley on 2 Jan 2007 12:29
On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:47:29 -0800, Dan wrote:

> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:22:02 -0600, Bob Adkins <bobad(a)charter.net>
> wrote:
>
>>I have tried 2 fairly new disk defrag utilities recently:
>>"SmartDefrag" by IOBit
>>
>>Anyone tried either of them? Am I missing anything?
>
> I've been using Smart Defrag for quite a while. It's resident, so it
> does on-the-fly defragging. My apps keep opening very snappily, so
> Smart Defrag must be doing something right. It's caused zero problems.
> Obviously, I'm happy with it and am continuing to use it until
> something I like better comes by. But I'm not looking for anything.
>
> As a alternative, DirMS and Buzzsaw provide defrag and resident-defrag
> services without a GUI.

Dirk Paehl has excellent GUI for DIRMS. You can get it here:

http://www.paehl.de/blog/index.php?entry=entry060226-115935

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From: pixturesk on 2 Jan 2007 12:58

Gilhooley wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:47:29 -0800, Dan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 09:22:02 -0600, Bob Adkins <bobad(a)charter.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>I have tried 2 fairly new disk defrag utilities recently:
> >>"SmartDefrag" by IOBit
> >>
> >>Anyone tried either of them? Am I missing anything?
> >
> > I've been using Smart Defrag for quite a while. It's resident, so it
> > does on-the-fly defragging. My apps keep opening very snappily, so
> > Smart Defrag must be doing something right. It's caused zero problems.
> > Obviously, I'm happy with it and am continuing to use it until
> > something I like better comes by. But I'm not looking for anything.
> >
> > As a alternative, DirMS and Buzzsaw provide defrag and resident-defrag
> > services without a GUI.
>
> Dirk Paehl has excellent GUI for DIRMS. You can get it here:
>
> http://www.paehl.de/blog/index.php?entry=entry060226-115935
>
> --
> Home is where the 127.0.0.1 is
>
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> tvyubbyrl.g.n(a)tznvy.pbz

I have been using Diskeeper Lite, the final freeware version, can't
remember where I got it, works much faster, completely, than the
Norton Systemworks Utilities version of its defrag program that I have
been using on Win98SE. A lot of the free defrag programs folks are
mentioning here only work with Win 2000, XP.

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