![]() After downloading all the windows updates I do the same. I do the same with each Cd that follows such as my resource CD or modem etc. ![]() After a reformat i defrag first in safe mode and then reboot into ordinary mode and defrag again the windows reinstallation. if you are running a lite machine with little software etc it seems to work well. i use the windows defrag but in a diffirent way. Iv tried a few of the pay defrags over the years but never felt they ever did enough to inspire me to buy them. Oh, and yes, chalk up one more opinion that DK's background defragmentation is a pain in the ass and naught but a gimmick. If you have better than 20% or more free space on your hard drive, though, I doubt that's your problem.Īnyways, I agree with the other posters that you COULD have a badly enough defragmented hard drive that that's simply how long it takes on the first pass of a REAL defrag program, boot-time or otherwise.Īside from that, chalk one more vote up for PerfectDisk over Diskkeeper, based on personal experience. You don't mention the free space on your drive, so I thought I'd throw that out. That applies to online defragmentation but also, and particularly, to boot-time defragmentation and particularly if your free disk space is low enough to make relocation of your page file difficult and time consuming for the defragger. Sweater, the only thing I can think of that no one has mentioned in this thread is that, if you are getting low enough on free disk space, ANY disk defragmenter can take exponentially more amounts of time to do its job. Note: Another effect of running background defragmentation is th adverse impact it has on the size of backups taken by image-based backup programs that do incremental/differential updates. With the DK LIte 7 free version, I noticed the impact of DK running several times per day to do analysis. In part, this was due to the backup program trying to "lock" each drive as it was doing its thing, so there was a conflict when PD was fighting for control of the drive. Wow, did performance ever go down once the Trend Analysis started! Most of th time, you will not be on the computer at that time.īut once, in my usual daze, I started to run a backup program shortly before 02:00, forgetting that the Trend analysis would start at 02:00. With PD, start te Trend Analysis featore and tell it to run once at, say, 02:00. You can see the overhead in these programs, just due to their monitoring, by doing the following. Perhaps, the newer versions have cleaned things up. With the free DK Lite version, the overhead was very noticeable. ![]() Click to expand.The overhead occurs due to the monitoring by DK.
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