defragging harddrive with vista?

fastspaz · Post by **fastspaz** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:22 pm

Can someone tell me how in the heck I can defrag my harddrive on vista? I'm clueless. Thanks for the advice in advance.

9mmprincess · Post by **9mmprincess** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:27 pm

hmm... well I just put "defrag" into the search bar, and it popped up a window in about 2 seconds that said my puter is being automatically defragged every wednesday at 1 am. It asked me if I'd like to defrag now, and I told it no, keep to your current schedule.

Hope this helps

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:31 pm

Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:58 pm

9mmprincess wrote:hmm... well I just put "defrag" into the search bar, and it popped up a window in about 2 seconds that said my puter is being automatically defragged every wednesday at 1 am. It asked me if I'd like to defrag now, and I told it no, keep to your current schedule.

Hope this helps

So you stuck with vista then?

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 6:59 pm

I am using Windows Vista x64 and very happy with it.

BTW, for defraging I use Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier, I've used it for XP and now Vista, nice program.

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 7:01 pm

Brent wrote:I am using Windows Vista x64 and very happy with it.

I had a person email yesterday that "prayed I was not using Vista"

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:02 pm

Vista defrag is sooooo slow! The good news though is that MS is actively working on a new faster Vista defrag for SP1 when it comes out.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:59 pm

TonyT wrote:Vista defrag is sooooo slow! The good news though is that MS is actively working on a new faster Vista defrag for SP1 when it comes out.

yeah heard the same thing.. plus I did hear they are working on memory usage and how its dropped for applications.

Rivas · Post by **Rivas** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 3:05 pm

Brent wrote:
BTW, for defraging I use Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier, I've used it for XP and now Vista, nice program.

I was using it few weeks ago then my trial expired, you think it's worth buying it ?

illestdynasty · Post by **illestdynasty** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 10:24 pm

Vista's built in defrag is actually Diskkeeper lite... and does a surprisingly good job at that.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 9:15 am

Just like prior versions of Windows.....one of the several methods to get to defragger...open up My Computer, right click the drive...properties, tools tab...you'll see it there, along with Checkdisk.

Another way...if you want to actually see % and stuff...since the new Vista Defrag GUI hides that info now, hit up the command prompt,
defrag C:" can toss in -a or -w if you want to see some more info. (just type defrag and you'll see the list of options.

By default Vista defrag will run once a week anyways....not really a need to manually run it now.

Supertangent · Post by **Supertangent** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:53 am

Brent wrote:I am using Windows Vista x64 and very happy with it.

BTW, for defraging I use Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier, I've used it for XP and now Vista, nice program.

Me too, I use Diskeeper Pro, and it works very nicely. Automatic defragment is great - set it and forget it, and Diskeeper does the rest. I like that you can enable automatic defrag for the partitions that you want, and disable it for others.

illestdynasty wrote:Vista's built in defrag is actually Diskkeeper lite... and does a surprisingly good job at that.

Nope. The XP defragger was an older Diskeeper lite, but Vista's has nothing to do with Diskeeper AFAIK.