J K Defrag
Tony
defrag program or are there better ones?
Tony
Tony
"Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]" <.@.> wrote in message
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> >I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still a good
>>defrag program or are there better ones?
>>
>>Tony
>
>
> - Thee Chicago Wolf [MVP]
Thanks; I'll probably stick with it too.
Tony
Leythos
TonyB...@tesco.net says...
>
> I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still a good
> defrag program or are there better ones?
>
> Tony
Using MyDefrag on servers with scheduled runs, no problems on any of
them so far.
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"Leythos" <spam9...@rrohio.com> wrote in message
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> In article <7aKdnf-9VqH6D-DW...@bt.com>,
> TonyB...@tesco.net says...
>>
>> I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still a good
>> defrag program or are there better ones?
>>
>> Tony
>
> Using MyDefrag on servers with scheduled runs, no problems on any of
> them so far.
Thankyou; I'm still undecided but may give it a try. Mind you as J K Defrag
works fine why change it? Having said that I understand My Defrag has more
functionality.
Tony
Tony
VanguardLH
Assuming you are asking only about freeware:
JKdefrag
trialed it but found it no better than Windows' own defrag
switched to Defraggler
Piriform Defraggler
better and used it for a couple years
scheduled via Task Scheduler gives me good scheduling options
IObit's SmartDefrag
trialed it but found it less than optimal for defrag results
switched to Auslogics
Auslogics Disk Defrag
have stayed with that
have an event in Task Scheduler to run it via command-line
JKdefrag didn't give me any real advantage in its results.
IOBit's SmartDefrag was too simplistic and non-optimal
Piriform Defraggler is very good
Auslogic's Disk Defrag is better
If I find that I no longer like Auslogics then I'd go back to Defraggler.
VanguardLH
> Mind you as J K Defrag
> works fine why change it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jkdefrag
"Unlike JkDefrag, MyDefrag is closed-source, but still can be used free of
charge."
When open-source freeware goes closed-source, be leery that it will remain
freeware, or not become crippleware with a payware full-function version.
The big change for v4 seems to be "it has a scripting language". Maybe
whatever the author used for a scripting library and the other new functions
(screensaver defrag) weren't open-source.
Tony
"VanguardLH" <V...@nguard.LH> wrote in message
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That's really helpful, thank you. Yes I am interested in freeware & will
have a look at both Defraggler & Auslogics Defrag.
Nil
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
> I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still
> a good defrag program or are there better ones?
I don't know if others are "better", but MyDefrag works very well.
apistomaster(nospam)
> On 18 Feb 2010, "Tony" <TonyBat...@tesco.net> wrote in
> microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
>
> > I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still
> > a good defrag program or are there better ones?
>
> I don't know if others are "better", but MyDefrag works very well.
In what way(s) are third party defrag programs better than the native
defrag function in XP?
Defragging doesn't increase the available disc space, right?
It just consolidates fragmented files.
So why add what seems to me to be a redundant utility that takes some
small decrease of space on the hard drive?
Leythos
1ce6be...@v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, apisto...@clearwire.net
says...
>
> On Feb 19, 8:19 am, Nil <redno...@REMOVETHIScomcast.net> wrote:
> > On 18 Feb 2010, "Tony" <TonyBat...@tesco.net> wrote in
> > microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
> >
> > > I see that J K Defrag has been replaced my My Defrag - Is it still
> > > a good defrag program or are there better ones?
> >
> > I don't know if others are "better", but MyDefrag works very well.
>
> In what way(s) are third party defrag programs better than the native
> defrag function in XP?
MyDefrag permits you to leave gaps between LARGE files and old-less used
files, it also permits you to leave slack space between often used files
and those that are rarely used - I always set the arguments to leave
slack space.
> Defragging doesn't increase the available disc space, right?
> It just consolidates fragmented files.
> So why add what seems to me to be a redundant utility that takes some
> small decrease of space on the hard drive?
Defrag has nothing to do with more/less space, it has everything to do
with decreasing the R/W HEAD SEEK TIME - the head moving and not reading
data is a performance hit - if it can read contiguous segments it's
faster than reading X number that are scattered all over the disk.
Bill Sharpe
MyDefrag includes many more features and is much more customizable than
Windows built-in defragger. See the detailed help file that comes with
the program. There are scripts supplied for analyze only, defrag only,
fast optimize, slow optimize, fast update, force together, move to end
of disk, sort by creation time, sort by last access, sort by last
change, sort by name, and sort by size.
The MyDefrag files take up 2.5 mb on my 250 gb hard disk, certainly not
much of a dent in space.
Bill
Nil
wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
> So why add what seems to me to be a redundant utility that takes some
> small decrease of space on the hard drive?
More features, more control, faster.
Why use Dreamweaver when you have Notepad? Why use Winword when you
have Wordpad? Why use Protools when you have Sound Recorder? Why use
Photoshop when you have Paint? Why play "World of Warcraft" when you've
got FreeCell?