"I have been using Iobit products for a good many years now. Because I am running an older machine with 6 drives, including 2 external, I find that Iobit's "Smart Defrag Pro" has served me very well. Being an older machine,, my computer system tends to become fragmented quite easily. Having My "Smart Defrag Pro" set to auto defrag, and running a "Defrag and Optimize" once a week, keeps my system running smooth and well. Iobit is constantly upgrading and striving to make the product even better as time goes by. I am well pleased with this product."
"I run a combination of RAID 0 SSDs and RAID 0 HDDs and use Smart Defrag Pro to analyse, defrag and keep my drives running at peak performance. As with all IObit software it is easy to install, use and very reliable. Just set it up and forget it. Smart Defrag has a very small memory foot print so it won't slow down your system. Definitely recommended!"
I don't want to update to the pro version of smart defrag and I don't want to have the smart defrag update message nagging me to update it each time windows starts. I am content with the defrag contained in ASCU. So, how do I disable this update message?
found a way that works --right click the shortcut (in this case driver booster because i don't have smart defrag installed) open file location find AutoUpdate.exe. use the program IObit Unlocker (it's free) and rename the file to something like AutoUpdate.exe.bak so it will never run. but you can still use the check for updates manually to update all iobit programs
"I have been using Iobit products for a good many years now. Because I am running an older machine with 6 drives, including 2 external, I find that Iobit's "Smart Defrag 8 Pro" has served me very well. Being an older machine,, my computer system tends to become fragmented quite easily. Having My "Smart Defrag 8 Pro" set to auto defrag, and running a "Defrag and Optimize" once a week, keeps my system running smooth and well. Iobit is constantly upgrading and striving to make the product even better as time goes by. I am well pleased with this product."
5. restart in Vista to check if files were moved from other drives into C by smartdefrag or by any other software.( in that process, I deleted few thousand files left over by various programs after uninstall and also other files, like 'google earth' cache which was around 500MB).
Awhile ago, I decided to use Smart Defrag. Advanced System Care 3 is such a great product, so I decided to give Smart Defrag a try. I analyzed my hard drive and decided to use the "deep optimize" option. After about half an hour of it doing nothing, I pressed cancel and went with "fast optimize." It began to defragment and work its magic. After a few hours, it finished.
I have had the same corruption happen when I used deep optimze... I was able to fix with norton and several other disk repair programs and a sytem restore... BUT ... now smart defrag runs very slow... I am only using "defrag only" or "analyze".. takes several days to get to 31% on analyze.
I am busy with a large project for a company and loaded a lot of data on my hard drive leaving about 100 gig free space. So I immediately went and removed about 20 gig from my hard drive. This left me with about 120 gig free space. I then run Disk Doctor. It picked up error and after reboot corrected it. I then ran Smart Defrag 2 and after that once again Disk Doctor. To my surprise Disk Doctor picked up errors again. Could it be that during defrag it moved files onto bad sectors? I rebooted and corrected these. I then removed about 110 gig from my hard drive. Removing meaning also from the recycle bin. This is where I am at the moment.
My point earlier was that packing everything together would neither prevent nor add to fragmentation. Additionally, its difficult and time-consuming to try to maintain that configuration (been there, done that, with custom defrag scripting).
As you can see from my screenshots in the aforementioned thread in my previous post, in the beginning of XP era, the best defragmentation is ment, all the files should be contiguous without any space in between and the placement of the folders and certain system files should have been in certain locations of the HD. all the well known defraggers done nearly the same thing, call it Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, or any other utility program using contig.exe of Sysinternals (Not MS at that time).
At that time SSD were not used and smart placement of the files were not used. Even Zoned-Bit Recording was not taken into consideration. US journal files of todays OSes are defragmentable online, but they were not at XP's time and so on.
BTW, if the best defragmentation algorithm was known, there wouldn't be many defragmenters. :lol: It does differ for the users with different habbits, different usage logics, different hardware, etc. anyway.
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This program tries to replace Windows' default defragmentation widget by being more advanced and offering more style, features, and customizations. We're not kidding about replacing, either -- the program will turn off your usual defragmenter and install other programs if you don't uncheck those options during install, so be careful. Once you have Smart Defrag 3 installed, you'll be very happy with its futuristic layout that offers some customization and a nice hard drive map that is a delight to read. It lets you set automatic and boot time defrags, as well -- but you might want to program those to happen when you're not using your computer, as the program took upwards of 30 minutes to defrag when we tested it. It was smart enough to recognize our SSD and not defrag it, though. The program has an \"action center\" that claims to recommend performance fixes, but they are all just recommendations for other programs made by the app's developers.
Smart Defrag 3 hits all the notes you'd expect from a defragger, but it is too aggressive in terms of advertising. It throws recommendations for other programs at you at every turn. Still, it makes up for that pestering with performance that rivals most defrag programs for Windows.
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