which free defrag software..?

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which free defrag software would you suggest..?

and is it worthwhile doing - I'm using about 40% of my HDD

thanks
 
Click on Computer....right click on the drive you wish to format...properties....tools...defragment

EDIT: Might be click on My Computer depending on software
 
Google Ashampoo, whether it make much difference with NTFS is open to debate though.
 
admirable said:
Click on Computer....right click on the drive you wish to format...properties....tools...defragment

EDIT: Might be click on My Computer depending on software
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thanks did that some time ago - didn't see any improvement - hence my asking about other software
 
As said ntfs doesn't defrag as much as the older file systems and windows does its own housekeeping (unless you have ssd where windows turns it off) so defrag program's are a waste of your time.
 
neil_g said:
As said ntfs doesn't defrag as much as the older file systems and windows does its own housekeeping (unless you have ssd where windows turns it off) so defrag program's are a waste of your time.
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sorry to be dumb

ssd - is solid state device but how does that relate to my PC with Vista

thanks
 
Defraggler spends ages seemingly defragging a drive that it says isn't fragmented... and even when it's finished you can click defrag it will spend ages defragging the same disk again, ad infinitum. It just seems to be wasting my electricity.
 
Ffoeg said:
Defraggler spends ages seemingly defragging a drive that it says isn't fragmented... and even when it's finished you can click defrag it will spend ages defragging the same disk again, ad infinitum. It just seems to be wasting my electricity.
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:thumbs:.........:lol:
 
If you have a SSD you don't need to defrag it as there's no moving part inside it it doesn't need to "fetch" the data as its not stored on a disc it spends no time finding it as a normal HDD does.
 
Yardbent said:
sorry to be dumb

ssd - is solid state device but how does that relate to my PC with Vista

thanks
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Providing your drive is set to ntfs I wouldn't bother. Defragging is left over from the days of windows 98 and fat file systems that people cling to as a performance placebo.
 
Yardbent said:
sorry to be dumb

ssd - is solid state device but how does that relate to my PC with Vista

thanks
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Ah weel, to answer that question would involve you telling us that information in the first place:cuckoo:
 
neil_g said:
Providing your drive is set to ntfs I wouldn't bother. Defragging is left over from the days of windows 98 and fat file systems that people cling to as a performance placebo.
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Everyone should read the quoted text, because it is true.

NTFS doesn't suffer much from fragmentation until the drive is >90% full. If it's that full, something more drastic than a defragment is required.
 
daza said:
If you have a SSD you don't need to defrag it as there's no moving part inside it it doesn't need to "fetch" the data as its not stored on a disc it spends no time finding it as a normal HDD does.
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In fact files written to an SSD are deliberately fragmented to spread the load over the whole disk.
 
You'd be better off not worrying about defragging and downloading CCLEANER and running on your system.

Clears up unwanted and left over rubbish on the PC and in the registry which can speed things up a little.
 
Harvey_nikon said:
You'd be better off not worrying about defragging and downloading CCLEANER and running on your system.

Clears up unwanted and left over rubbish on the PC and in the registry which can speed things up a little.
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thanks .............will do
 
Harvey_nikon said:
You'd be better off not worrying about defragging and downloading CCLEANER and running on your system.

Clears up unwanted and left over rubbish on the PC and in the registry which can speed things up a little.
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That's another can o worms right there.. Some say they can do more harm than good.

On the few occasions ive used it personally I've seen no performance gain for the amount of "errors" it found
 
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I've seen more wrecked computers from registry cleaners than I've seen performance improvements after using them.

CCLEANER is a good tool as a general cleaning tool, but avoid the registry cleaning part.
 
someguy201 said:
I've seen more wrecked computers from registry cleaners than I've seen performance improvements after using them.

CCLEANER is a good tool as a general cleaning tool, but avoid the registry cleaning part.
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Well I've used it on at least 100 PC's, laptops and netbooks since it first came out and not once had a single issue with cleaning the registry with CCleaner.

suppose it depends on the people using them and the software itself.
 
CCleaner is one of the more reliable ones, but it still brings up plenty of incorrect "errors", even if avoiding some of the more dangerous keys. I've not seen a performance gain from Reg Cleaning with it, despite the constant bombard of advertisements Windows registry "errors" are not the main cause of slow computers.

Other Reg Cleaners on the other hand are a lot riskier to use, they tend to be inaccurate and like to target keys related to drivers.
 
Harvey_nikon said:
Well I've used it on at least 100 PC's, laptops and netbooks since it first came out and not once had a single issue with cleaning the registry with CCleaner.

suppose it depends on the people using them and the software itself.
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Me neither, but must agree with the guru fella, I have never seen any noticeable gain in performance afterwards.

Certainly NEVER knackerred a PC, cleaning a registry either!
 
There are a couple of threads on here from fairly recent with a couple of unbootable PCs from cleaners.
 
I use the one which on the Computer as standard with the OS. I also use Defraggler by Piriform. try those, they are always useful.
 
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