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gmoney · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: defrag

whats a good program that u would use to defrag with.. im sick of the lack luster options of the xp defrag utility... but hey it does the job.. i just want something ... better Confused

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Better as in...........?

The XP defrag utility is actually the same thing as Diskeeper, just without the fancy graphics options and extra features. Personally, it works well, gets the job done quickly.

Diskeeper is a good one, I've used O&O Defrag before, and Winternals worked really well, too, but none are "free" programs. Unless you really screw up your drive alot, I'd just stick with the Windows stock defragger.
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Nothing wrong with the XP utility.
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ToggleHead · TWEAKGURU Joined: 03 Mar 2004 Posts: 4360 Location: Jersey

if anything...run nortons drive optimizer....if you have norton
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gmoney · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

lmao... no norton here... never have used it ... really... all i remember of it , was that the virus scans for 40gigs of data would take literally hours... i guess i can stick to the xp based defrag.. mite give what fnf suggested a try though
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yes, there is other small programs to do those purposes.

Just don't install norton system works.
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Xal · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 2:11 am Post subject:

Try "win speedup" by script soft, I got it off a comp mag CD. It lets you tweak all kinds of stuff , regestry, startup, icons, duplicate files, unused DLLs and a whole lot more. It has helped my performance hugely and it doesn't use up resources

No defrag tool tho

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Josh · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 8:52 am Post subject:

I just use windows too....if you do it once a week it will only take you 15 minutes on average (and i have a 160GB about 60% full)

And as for norton..well........whY?

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Proven to use a HUGE amount of system resources and practically takes over the whole computer.
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gmoney · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject:

yeah u kinda hold norton and aol in the same regards... considering once theyre on there ... they will skrew ur system up

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-=Pyro-Psycho=- · Tweakafile Joined: 26 Dec 2003 Posts: 935 Location: TN

Yeah I don't think that's true with the earlier versions of Norton. I think I'm running like 2000 or something near there, and it works fine. My friend did get 04 or 05 Norton, and yeah it was a killer, and hard as hell to use. But my old Norton works fine.
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Josh · Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 7:27 pm Post subject:

I havent seen what you would call "evidence" from benchies...but i have used several PC's (fast ones at that) with considerably poor load up times for basic programs. Not to mention its a rip off!
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-.-PhanTom-.- · TweakNOOB Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 136

I have been using Executive Software's DiskeeperPro for years. Best there is.
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