Comments on: Windows Vista Defragmentation

By: Irakli

Irakli — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:15:35 +0000

When people say that they are going to use some other tool over Vista’s defrag just don’t understand the concept of Vista’s defrag. Vista’s defrag is scheduled to run automatically meaning that there is NO need for a user to manually start built-in or any other defrag program. Just like Mac OS X automatically defragments files smaller than 20MB in size, or Linux by using extents/delayed allocation/space reservation in its filesystems.

So, I suggest everyone to stop worrying about fragmentation and let the operating system handle everything automatically.

By: Benny

Benny — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:54:41 +0000

To Cancel Vista Defrag that is already in progress go back to the Drive’s properties and choose tools tab, defragment now, and cancel defrag. It will take a little time after cancellation to analyze the disk and then quit.

Funny thing after it finished analyzing and quitting, it told me I didn’t have to defragment even though I cancelled the defrag before it finished.

I’m going to try the free Auslogic Defrag Program everyone is recommending for Vista. I just don’t like Vista’s no display to tell you how much defraging to go.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:32:48 +0000

Any way to force windows defrag to move windows files which are in the middle of the disk ?

Regards
Peter

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By: Rakel

Rakel — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:21:48 +0000

Nice to know, you can’t really see the difference as a user.
I use defraggler, which let’s you pick what files to defragment.

By: Kobayashi

Kobayashi — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:30:10 +0000

Windows Vista’s defrag does not work so well because it has removed virtually all control from the user. In it’s defense, Vista’s defrag is a huge leap over XP’ s antiquated manual and scheduled (via scheduler) defrag because it is automatic and works in the background without interrupting the user’s computing activities. This means that the user / system admin has one less thing (defrag) to worry about, and saves time and manpower on routine system maintenance. In real-world performance third party automatic defraggers are still superior because they offer far more options and actually defrag the drive well unlike Vista.

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Computers » Windows Vista Defragmentation — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:41:54 +0000

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microsoft » Windows Vista Defragmentation — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:39:57 +0000

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