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ha14:
So which one has to be JetDefrag or Advanced Defrag, who is behing advanced defrag?

Curt:
notice that today's giveaway merely is the Professional version, but that the €10 version in my initial post is the 'advanced' Ultimate version.



Words don't mean what they used to.  :(

MerleOne:
And it's even more Defrag Day since IOBit released its free SmartDefrag V2 beta 3.00 that adds many features compared to the V1.5 (including boottime defrag).  V2 beta 2.00 was quite buggy, this one seems better so far (file exclusion based on size works now).  On the negative side, there is a new driver running, smartdefrag.sys, that stays active even if the application is not running and worse, was also remaining there after uninstallation (last point was with beta 2.00).

sajman99:
Nice to see a "boot time" option appearing in more of the free defraggers.

Lots of decent choices nowadays. Still content with Puran Defrag here.

40hz:
It turns out the hard disk was badly fragmented -- the 10 most fragmented files averaging more than 20,000 fragments each! In fact it was so bad that XP's built-in defragmenter wouldn't work. I tried it a couple of times, and it just played with the files but didn't fix them. Just kept reporting that I still needed to defragment my disk!

I turned to JKDefrag, and it did the job. It took 12 hours, but it worked. So yes, in my experience, an occasional defrag is probably a good idea and yes, if your disk is in a bad way, trying a specialist program like JKDefrag is worth a shot.
-johnk (March 14, 2011, 07:16 PM)
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Scary!  :tellme:

I'm guessing that this drive partition was pretty full, with something like less than 10% freespace available?

Running tight on filespace contributes to heavy fragmentation. And if you're running with a dynamic swapfile ...whoops!...make that pagefile setting, lack of contiguous disk space can also cause stability problems for the OS itself.
 8)

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