Power Defragmenter; Anyone Tried This? It's Very, Very, Fast

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:21 am

Hi to All

Found this the other day and gave it a go..Wow! is it Quick or what. Freebie and seems to do the job.

Power Defragmenter is based on Sysinternals defragmentation "engine".

It Defrags Files, Folders and Disks. Use the "Power Mode Disk Defragmentation Button" and stand back

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Any comments?

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Har ... nter.shtml

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regards

minir

BrettRS · Post by **BrettRS** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:23 am

Gonna test it now, I'll edit post when I'm done.

[EDIT]
Wow, that was fast.. didn't take up much system memory either.

I can tell a difference already.. then again I havn't defragged in about 3 months.

*twiddles thumbs innocently*

Regards,
Brett

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:03 am

Hi BrettRS

Nice to meet You & Welcome to SG

Yep! very fast indeed. I did Folders and then The Super Duper Defrag and it was all over in minutes. I too noticed a pickup in performance as well.

We'll have to see who else gives it a go and their experiences with it.

Thanks BrettRS & have a dilly of a day

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minir

Jamie_R · Post by **Jamie_R** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:44 am

I've been using Diskeeper for months, but I'm interested to see how this measures up to it - thanks Minir!

ARS · Post by **ARS** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:50 am

Less memory usage and quicker than others alike? I will definatley give this a whirl when I get home.

Much appreciated Minir

Anthony

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:58 am

Hi Jamie_R & ARS

I too have been using Diskeeper and it is good. This is much faster and i don't think you lose anything?

Hope you two keep us informed as to what you find using it

Thanks Fellas and do enjoy your day

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minir

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:55 pm

another good review. replacing speeddisk now :-P thanks minir. be sure to post that in the must have downloads

Unholy · Post by **Unholy** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:08 pm

MY EYES!!! Shouldn't be looking at that command prompt. Anyways works great time to uninstall another norton utilty.

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:17 pm

Hi morbidpete & Unholy

Thanks Fellas for checking in, your input is appreciated

Have a good one Guys

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minir

AceFireball · Post by **AceFireball** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:30 pm

If anything it is fast, will have to wait to look for the performance effects

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:52 pm

I'm always wary of third-party defragmenters, just like registry cleaners and "system tools."

I'm interested in opinions in this thread though. <watches>

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:00 pm

I LOVE IT!!! very fast and really cleaned out everything 100% better than anything i've ever used.. tried it on 3 computers so far 2kpro,xp home, and xp pro works great!

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:13 pm

ghost wrote:I'm always wary of third-party defragmenters, just like registry cleaners and "system tools".

I'm interested in opinions in this thread though. <watches>

Its a gui and comand prompt for the windows defragger. So ur stil using MS's defrag.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:26 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Its a gui and comand prompt for the windows defragger. So ur stil using MS's defrag.

way to destory our fun killjoy

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:29 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Its a gui and comand prompt for the windows defragger. So ur stil using MS's defrag.

Not sure I follow you here, YoS.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:30 pm

morbidpete wrote:way to destory our fun killjoy

I like it, I think its a good program and it does feel faster.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:32 pm

ghost wrote:Not sure I follow you here, YoS.

Well you know what a GUI is. It uses windows NT based defragger already in your OS, jsut not the windows GUI, it has a few preset defragging methods adn u pick one and it activates the windows defragger from the command line, and you watch it defrag from there.

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:34 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Well you know what a GUI is. It uses windows NT based defragger already in your OS, jsut not the windows GUI, it has a few preset defragging methods adn u pick one and it activates the windows defragger from the command line, and you watch it defrag from there.

How can you tell that it's using the MS defrag engine from just that?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:35 pm

ghost wrote:How can you tell that it's using the MS defrag engine from just that?

Cuz it tells you when its done.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:37 pm

Well it is the sys interansl contig program but its the MS defragger, jsut a few more options, nice not having the windows gui too

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:39 pm

What are some examples of these different "defragging methods?"

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:42 pm

file, folder, disk, powermodel

ghost · Post by **ghost** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:44 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:http://www.imagemagician.org/filelist.php?large_view=defrag.JPG

file, folder, disk, powermodel

Member login required.

Thats okay though, I get the idea, thanks.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:46 pm

fixed

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:22 pm

It doesn't work for 98.

minir · Post by **minir** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 8:34 pm

Hi AceFireball, ghost, Sava700, YARDofSTUF & Cabledude

AceFireball
Fast as can be. Even if it is not better than Diskeeper, i myself will use it more frequently due to its speed and therefore probably gain more benefit from it.

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ghost
It is the project of Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals
http://www.sysinternals.com/index.html

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Sava700
Thats encouraging Sava700...Thanks for the input

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YARDofSTUF
In part it is YoS, but i think??? it was taken to the next level by him. This because it sure doesn't act like the Native MS Defragger.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Information ... nting.html

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Cabledude
Sorry its Windows 2K/XP only

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Thanks Guys

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minir

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:09 am

minir wrote:YARDofSTUF
In part it is YoS, but i think??? it was taken to the next level by him. This because it sure doesn't act like the Native MS Defragger.
http://www.sysinternals.com/Information ... nting.html

Ya Sysinternals tweaked it, nicely too.

purecomedy · Post by **purecomedy** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:01 am

I still haven't found a defragmenter that moves the pagefile.sys to the beginning of the drive.

Best thing I have found is PerfectDisk which moves the files used in booting to the front of the disk. I would still like to make swapping as fast as possible by having pagefile.sys at the beginning of my 2nd physical disk.

BaghDaddy · Post by **BaghDaddy** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:29 am

Minir,

Thank you so much for posting this proggie, it has saved me considerable time. I usually start it at night and let it go while i sleep, now i can do it as i am doing my reports and it is done before i finish the reports.

minir · Post by **minir** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:40 am

Hi YARDofSTUF, purecomedy & BaghDaddy

YARDofSTUF
Yes whatever he did, he did it in a hurry

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purecomedy
I believe Diskeeper does this as well purecomedy? Me i find that this Defragger is so fast that it is more user friendly and seems to pickup the pace by making the Files contiguous.

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BaghDaddy
That seems to have been the standard routine of most of us BaghDaddy. Set, Snooze and get back at it in the morning.

I would like the ability to set this one for All Partitions, but i guess you can't have it all.

I use his Page Defrag as well which also seems to help.

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PageDefrag.html

I set it to function at every Boot.

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Thanks Fellas and do have a delightful day

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minir

Lefty · Post by **Lefty** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:26 am

Thank you Larry.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:32 am

Lefty04530 wrote:Thank you Larry.

My name's not Larry, it's Tom silly.

MissTynker2 · Post by **MissTynker2** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:45 am

Whoa! What a great little tool! Don't know how I missed this one. Thanks Larry!

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:51 am

Norm would love this fast little tool. DOS prompt, DOS screen and fast. Love it!!!!!

Although it might have some of the internals of an existing defrag program, it looks and feels different… enough that I like it over others.

There is something to be said for packaging a product so it appeals to the masses. Be they the DOS masses.

minir · Post by **minir** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 9:59 am

Good Morning Lefty, zooner, MissTynker & MadDoctor

Thanks to you all. Pleased it seems to satisfy your defragging requirements. I'm using it as my standard now, having uninstalled Diskeeper for it. I like the speed and the File Defrag as well.

Have a fantastic day Everyone.

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minir

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:57 pm

yep can't say it more... great little tool!

put it on all 5 of my PC's works good!

minir · Post by **minir** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:22 pm

Hi Sava700

That's great Sava700, glad you had luck with it.

Thanks & have a lovely evening

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minir

purecomedy · Post by **purecomedy** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:08 am

minir wrote:Hi YARDofSTUF, purecomedy & BaghDaddy

purecomedy
I believe Diskeeper does this as well purecomedy? Me i find that this Defragger is so fast that it is more user friendly and seems to pickup the pace by making the Files contiguous.

From what I can tell it does not get moved. I recall that unmovable files have a certain color on the graphic that shows the position of files on the drive. The unmovable files would include things like pagefile.sys and they never seem to snug up to the beginning of the drive.

If I had any websites set up where I could upload a picture of my defrag window I could show you.

thepieman · Post by **thepieman** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:10 am

I clicked on the bottom choice of Power defrag , it did its thing , but I went into MS Defragment and clicked on analyze and there were Red spots (Fragmented files) all over the drive. I dunno if MS Defragment chart is accurate or not.

Pie

minir · Post by **minir** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:28 am

Hi purecomedy & Pie

purecomedy
I could well be mistaken in that purecomedy ergo the ? i put there as i was not positive it did that, though i thought it might have.

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Pie
If memory serves Pie i did the same thing and ran each first over a couple of days. It showed some fragments, but then that was not all that unusual as i found them prior simply using Diskeeper on its own. After a couple of passes though it seemed fine to me. They i think have different ways of doing the defragmenting?

I'm no expert on Defraggers to be sure and will have to leave that up to others more qualified here to answer that for you.

I have though Uninstalled Diskeeper as i have found the Powerdefragger doing a good job from the way my comp is working and being so much quicker i am using it more frequently which i think may offset any differences?

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minir