Diskeeper - I'm a bit confused

[Oni]

Why is Diskeeper better than standard Win2k defrag? I mean, it looks practically the same, save for that Diskeeper lists directories and stuff in different colours. It doesn't seem to defrag any more efficiently, or faster, so what's the deal?

Could somebody fill me in? Maybe there's a feature I'm missing.

[altec]

I was wondering the same thing Oni.

Anyone know what make sit better?

[thalzaar24]

I dunno either. To me it seems the same, however, something happened to my windows a few months back and i wasn't able to run the regular windows defragger for some odd reason. I never was able to fix it, so i downloaded Diskeeper and it works like a charm, so i bought it. keeps my drives nice and tight and haven't had problems in a long time. :D

[modenaf1]

i heard it works better in all categories but thats from the diskkeep ad in pcworld lol :p

[Oni]

That's all fine and good, but in what categories is it better? I mean, it's putting files in order, that's not exactly a hard or strenuous task.

I'm not badmouthing Diskeeper, I just wanna know why people fall all over themselves to use it, when it doesn't seem to me all that much better.

[Audioaficionado]

I don't know if it's any better but I like it's interface better and it can be set to defrag system files durring boot while they're not active and can be moved. I use diskeeper lite v7 that I downloaded while it was still offered as freeware.

I just defrag XP while booted in w2k and vis versa. System files are fully defragged that way eventhough diskeeper lite and XPs defragger don't support the boot defragging the full version will.

XP pro sp1 defrag seems just as good if not better than the w2k defragger.

[modenaf1]

well, i dont really think much of it. i mean a defrag program is a defrag program, weather one leaves 22 files fragmented after completion or 21. i dont really care. so in my opinion, the standard windows defrager is the best way to go,unless you have money to spend on disk keeper.

[stool]

Full version offers Boottime defrag, which optimizes directories, and Pagefile Defrag. Could be my imagination, but it seems to be slightly faster, and is more efficient than 2K defrag(and NU Speeddisk). I've run Defrag, and found that a run of Diskeeper was still necessary.

[Tebore]

Diskkeeper also has the Fraguard option which works with NTFS to keep fragmentation down and the ablity to adjust priority.

[Audioaficionado]

Originally posted by stool
Full version offers Boottime defrag, which optimizes directories, and Pagefile Defrag. Could be my imagination, but it seems to be slightly faster, and is more efficient than 2K defrag(and NU Speeddisk). I've run Defrag, and found that a run of Diskeeper was still necessary.

I just defrag w2k when I'm in XP and vis versa. That way all the system files are defragged in each OS as they aren't active.

[Oni]

I uninstalled Diskeeper . . . Now I have no defragmentation tool available :rolleyes:

Why on earth would it take the default MS Defragmentation tool with it when it uninstalled?