Defrag in vista

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! It was perfect for them, except the English language.

So I invested for IObit in the French translation. From now on, the French IT magazines strongly recommend Smart Defrag, including with Windows 10 Optimiser, for a more robust and accurate diagnosis with options to speed up the system startup.

That I appreciate very much. Subscribe to keep you updated on products updates and special offers via email. And you can opt-out at any time. Contact Us Support Products Home. PC Clean. Driver Update. Free Online Tools. Support Center. IObit Forums. There are of course reasons why you might want to override this default mechanism.

For example, a full defragmentation of the hard disk may speed up certain hard disk backup operations. If you're doing it on a large scale with many computers, the time savings when backing up a properly defragged hard disk compared to one where the files are broken into many fragments may be significant. Another possible reason might be if you are capturing video on your computer and don't want any frames to be skipped; if the disk is fragmented without a contiguous free space for the entire video file, the hard disk head may have to skip over occupied sectors in the middle of recording, causing your recording software to skip frames.

To get Vista's defragger to give you some information about your hard disk, and to control which hard disk or partition it defragments, you will need to use the command line defragmentation utility. It will still not give you any feedback while defragmenting, just as the GUI version of the defragmenter will not, but at least you can get information on the fragmentation level of your hard disk, control whether to defragment even if the file fragments are larger than 64 MB, and control which partition or hard disk to defragment.

To use the command line defrag tool in Windows Vista, you have to run the Command Prompt as an administrator. In Vista, this is not automatic even if you are logged in as the administrator. Click the Windows button previously the Start button in earlier versions of Windows , the All Programs menu item and the Accessories menu item. Right click the "Command Prompt" button and select "Run as administrator".

A command prompt window will appear. Everything you run in this Window will be run with administrator rights. The "-a" parameter tells the defragger to perform a fragmentation analysis. The "-v" option tells it to be verbose in its report. If you want a report on drive D: or some other drive, substitute that drive letter in place of c:. Be aware that defrag may tell you that you have no fragmented files even if you have some.

On NTFS partitions, the reporting function of defrag does not consider fragmented files with fragments greater than 64 MB as fragmented. If you need truly detailed information, you may have to consider getting a third party defragmenter such as those listed on the Free Defragmentation Utilities page on thefreecountry. The "-r" option tells the defragmentation utility to treat files that are fragmented with 64 MB fragments or larger as though they are not fragmented.

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Until Vista, there was always a progress bar and graphic representation of the defrag process. I just looked at the Explorer 8 map demo that shows Microsoft HQ. With all those huge buildings, do you think its possible that there might be one person there who can put the progress bar and graphic back into defrag program?

Saturday, October 17, AM. I have been running Vista since the beta and now Windows 7 since the beta. I have 7 hard drives connected and none are fragmented. I never see the defragmenter work. I don't care when it works as long as my disks are not fragmented and they are not.

This is just my opinion. I am quite happy to not even know that a defragmenter exists on my system. I am sure Microsoft could add this but why? System maintenance should be invisible. Most users just want their computer to work. Strangelove There is absolutely no need to ever launch the tool as a dedicated task and await its completion, so there is no need whatsoever for a graphical representation.

I have, on numerous occasions, tested Vista and Windows 7 machines which have been in heavy, continual use and performed that testing with 'professional quality' defragmenting tools.

Such tools invariably report that all drives remain in very low single digit percentage fragmentation state.

As installed the OS has Defrag configured to run in accordance with a regular schedule, and it will complete its task, every time, without intruding on your usage. Reintroducing the graphical depiction interface would only encourage people to adopt the approach of launching it as a dedicated task, and that would very much represent a backward step!

No, what is needed is for people to understand that they perhaps know less about the software than they might think and that obnoxious answers are no help when people ask a question. First, and foremost, I have yet to touch a Vista or Windows 7 machine where the defrag app worked unobtrusively. It has a relatively high CPU usage and logically very high disk usage.

The only way to not notice it is to let it run automatically in the middle of the night. Second, there are indeed times when one might want to run it manually, such as after uninstalling a large app, changing the size of a swap file, or doing serious reorganization of a drive.