Comments on: SmartDefrag – Free disk defragmenter

By: Rox4

Rox4 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:24:33 +0000

Be ware that Diskeeper and PerfectDisk are competitors. PerfectDisk has alwayes used this “talking bad” about Diskeeper to promote themself. Not very sympathetic, and made me lose interest for PerfectDisk . They obviously do not have a very good product.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:50:37 +0000

I have been using SmartDefrag for the past few weeks on Windows XP, Windows 7 (RC), and Windows Server 2003. It has worked very well with one little glitch. The computers that are in a lab environment have Deep Freeze on them to restore them to a known state each morning when the computer reboots. The default for the scheduler buit into SMartDefrag schedules the application to defrag the drives at 10 PM every other Sunday. I wanted it to run daily at 2 AM (during the Deep Freeze maintenance window). Rather than run a scheduled defragmentation at 2:00 AM it seems the scheduled task is deleted (before running). The scheduled task is recreated the first time I log in (after 2:00 AM), but it has the SmartDefrag default time and date (every other Sunday).

SmartDefrag is a great tool and I would use it exclusively except for this problem. But because of this problem, I think I will go back to JKDefrag which I can setup in a scheduled task.

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By: Richard FDisk

Richard FDisk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:23:58 +0000

is there any way to reset the MFT so that saving an 800MB – 1.4GB will save in a contiguous block instead of being scribbled all over the disk which has 300GB free space?
it sucks to see the analysis report showing the file fragments anywhere from 300 to 1,500 for a single CD length Audio file

By: Haplo

Haplo — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:22:40 +0000

I’ve come across this document comparing Diskeeper and PerfectDisk, it’s very interesting that Diskeeper actually made things worse in the end!

By: Charles B

Charles B — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:46:03 +0000

I have been running SmartDefrag for a few days now, and it seems to run as described. I have not run into any problems as yet.

On IOBit’s website, it is stated that SmartDefrag is Windows 7, Vista, XP, and 2000 compatible. This is a little odd considering that the Windows 7 developer distribution beta is not due out for several weeks.

I am running Windows XP Professional, 1GB RAM, 3GHz HT Processor, with an 80GB 7200RPM hard drive; so far so good!

Thanks for the response!
CB

By: Cory

Cory — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:22:50 +0000

JK defrag is one of the best defrag programs I have come across + its free and you can add to the run line how you want it to defrag I.E. files most commonly used = front of HD check it out its @ kessels.com you might like it

By: user

user — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:08:45 +0000

This product seems “Designed for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000″ only. It would be interesting to know if someone tested it on a Windows 2003 server.