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Zero3K:
DirMS is a program that defrags files faster and better than Executive's Diskeeper. Buzzsaw does on the fly defragmentation whenever it is needed and only when your HD is 95% idle (but only on files that have been recently modified and need defragging). I recommend running DirMS before running Buzzsaw.

Screenshot (of DirMS):

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Screenshot (of Buzzsaw):

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Homepage: http://www.dirms.com
Forums: http://www.dirms.com/forums/default.asp
Download (for DirMS): http://www.dirms.com/download/DirmsService.zip
Download (for Buzzsaw): http://www.dirms.com/download/BuzzsawService.zip
License: Shareware

mouser:
buzzsaw sounds interesting..

JeffK:
Ooh, can we talk about defragmenting.  I've been testing out the big three, Diskeeper, O&O and Perfect Disk and can't choose between them.  What I wanted was the ability to customise the file order when defragmenting like I used to do with Norton Speed Disk 5 (which does not work on Windows XP).  Except for Perfect Disk these let you do it in a fashion by means of "schemes" but it is not enough control for me.  I like the Perfect Disk interface the best but it doesn't have any choices.

I have tried DirMS, Buzzsawe and numerous other altyernatives but have no doubt been blinded to their good points by this need to customise the result.

BTW forum members may be interested in mst Defrag, which is designed to defrag files in the background.  ATM there is an introductory price of $US9 (reduced from $30).

Any other user experience with my issues above?

Jeff

nudone:
what Jeff says sounds interesting.

i'll probably get laughed at for saying this but i did read somewhere recently that defragging modern hard drives doesn't really offer much benefit as their access speed is quick enough to open files whether fragmented or not.

of course, i've also read that one should keep your hard drives nice and defragged.

i use voptxp. anyone got any opinions on that one - just seems quick so i use it.

Scott:
I use mst Defrag Home Edition, and it works quite well.  I absolutely love having a defragger that I can literally install and then forget about.  The only (very highly questionable) benefit that something like PerfectDisk offers, to me, is the ability to defrag a few bits of NTFS metadata in offline mode.  But no one is going to convince me that those metadata files are causing a performance hit.

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