Comments on: Rant: Windows Vista Defrag’s Dumbed-Down Interface is Dumb

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 02:04:30 +0000

Arcestaff, your comment seems to me a lot like guerrilla marketing.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:13:50 +0000

ya but you shouldnt lose space when you trying to gain it lol

By: Chimp

Chimp — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:42:22 +0000

Hey guys. Great comments here. I read all 10 and decided to download JkDefrag from Brad Isaac (Cheers for the link mate!) I have only just got my new laptop with Vista on it, and whilst defragging I lost nearly 2 gig. Thanks to JkDefrag, I managed to recover an amazing 7 gig!! Happy? I’m over the moon. Cheers again Brad. Hope it works for you!!

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Download: JkDefrag GUI — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:01:29 +0000

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By: whitefly

whitefly — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 21:21:06 +0000

Know that you use Diskeeper. I bet you can’t use parential controls settings anymore?

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 01:23:15 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Arcestaff. I might do some tests next time of my own (before I also spend my cold hard cash). I’ll keep your recommendation in mind.

By: Arcestaff

Arcestaff — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:34:29 +0000

Alex, I tried the big 3- O&O, PD and Diskeeper before I finally bought my DK Pro license. I asked around on some of the tech forums; the Vista defragger seems to be universally hated (Hello MSFT, are you listening?) and most of the members recommended Diskeeper. But I wanted to try out all three for myself before I blew $$$ on any of them.

On my system, O&O used to defrag the slowest, Perfectdisk was faster and Diskeeper was the fastest. Ofcourse, the conditions under which I evaluated them were not 100% identical, but good enough for me to get a fairly accurate idea.

All were MUCH faster than the vista defragger, all had progress charts, lots of options etc. I liked the UI and performance of Diskeeper the best, so I went with it. Also, Diskeeper seems like the standard recommendation when it comes to a defragger, so I figured I wouldn’t go wrong. So far, it seems to have been the right decision.

Good luck with your selection.

PS: I’ve heard of JKdefrag before, but after looking through their forums, it seems to have some bugs. I am not sure I want to trust my data to an unproven product. Unlike most freeware utilities, I have been a bit wary of some of these freeware defraggers- they usually promise more than they can deliver, and they play around directly with my data on the harddrive. This makes me a bit uncomfortable.

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:24:03 +0000

Hey thanks, Brad. I might try it out. Feature it here too if it works great.

I’ve tried this out with XP and works okay. Not like commercial ones like O&O though. First time I’ll try it out with Vista though.

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:55:23 +0000

Although not the prettiest interface you might want to try JKDefrag
Open source defragmenter

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/index.html

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Download: TweakVista Public BETA — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:13:26 +0000

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