Disk Defragmentation

2007-11-27 16:56:55

#1

Vub: The Power of Two; +188|6950|Sydney, Australia

Anyone know of any reputable software that is better than the one Windows gives? I've found Auslogics DiskDefrag utility, is it any good?

And does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can speed up my computer without adding new hardware. It seems like these Dell computers have a built in slow down script.

Last edited by Vub (2007-11-27 16:57:16)

2007-11-27 16:59:57

#2

King_County_Downy: shitfaced; +2,791|7053|Seattle

Vub wrote:
Anyone know of any reputable software that is better than the one Windows gives? I've found Auslogics DiskDefrag utility, is it any good?

And does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can speed up my computer without adding new hardware. It seems like these Dell computers have a built in slow down script.

I'd just go through your add/remove programs and get rid of anything that says dell. Also, how much RAM does your system have?

Defrag never really makes a noticeable difference. You only really need to do it if programs start hanging during load. I defrag like once a year maybe, and even then, it's just something to do to waste the time.

Sober enough to know what I'm doing, drunk enough to really enjoy doing it

2007-11-27 17:06:08

#3

Vub: The Power of Two; +188|6950|Sydney, Australia

Yeah I'm at the end of my whim here, it's disgraceful how slow my computer has become, and it's not a dodgy computer either. The hardware is ok, it runs on Centrino Duo 2.0Ghz and has 1Gb ram. I've only had it for less than 2 years, but it seems maybe the HD is to blame. Whenever I play bf2, for about 5 minutes, the harddrive works 100% and makes the game really jittery, plus just right clicking on an icon after I quit BF2 takes anywhere between 30s to 1 minute to load the context menu. Oh yeah it's a laptop btw.

2007-11-27 17:08:53

#4

General-Idea: Member; +5|6454|USA, Central.

Vub wrote:
Yeah I'm at the end of my whim here, it's disgraceful how slow my computer has become, and it's not a dodgy computer either. The hardware is ok, it runs on Centrino Duo 2.0Ghz and has 1Gb ram. I've only had it for less than 2 years, but it seems maybe the HD is to blame. Whenever I play bf2, for about 5 minutes, the harddrive works 100% and makes the game really jittery, plus just right clicking on an icon after I quit BF2 takes anywhere between 30s to 1 minute to load the context menu. Oh yeah it's a laptop btw.

That's why.
Desktop ftw.

2007-11-27 17:19:30

#5

Vub: The Power of Two; +188|6950|Sydney, Australia

Not Dell desktops Actually that's being a little unfair, I've also got a top of the range Dell dimension desktop and that's pretty good, although it still has slowed considerably.

2007-11-27 17:53:13

#6

ig: This topic seems to have no actual posts; +1,199|6978

o&o defrag

2007-11-27 19:17:09

#7

ReTox: Member; +100|6955|State of RETOXification

http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp

2007-11-27 19:53:32

#8

tkoi: Utahraptor!; +148|6603|Texas

Vub wrote:
Whenever I play bf2, for about 5 minutes, the harddrive works 100% and makes the game really jittery, plus just right clicking on an icon after I quit BF2 takes anywhere between 30s to 1 minute to load the context menu.

What it's doing when the hard drive is going is swapping with the paging file, which is "virtual memory" that is kept on your hdd and works as extra RAM. But since hard drives have way slow seek times compared to RAM, it takes awhile to load it. An extra GB or so of RAM will do the trick here.

2007-11-27 20:48:28

#9

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6894|King Of The Islands

ig wrote:
o&o defrag

QFT

OODAG > all

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2007-11-27 20:59:41

#10

tazz.: oz.; +1,339|6630|Sydney | ♥

You think you got a dodgy comp!?

My mate, has this, ok, prepare yourself......

AMD Athlon 2800+ running on a FSB of 333Mhz
Ram - 512MB DDR (NOT 2!)
GFX - Nvidea GeForce MX440 64MB DDR (BTW, ITS INTERGRATED!!!!)
40GB Hard drive
4x DVD R

I think that sums it up.....

EDIT: And XP has been installed and used frequently for over 3.5 years!

Last edited by tazz. (2007-11-27 21:00:07)

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2007-11-27 23:54:20

#11

']['error: Banned; +630|7100|The Netherlands

tazz. wrote:
You think you got a dodgy comp!?

My mate, has this, ok, prepare yourself......

AMD Athlon 2800+ running on a FSB of 333Mhz
Ram - 512MB DDR (NOT 2!)
GFX - Nvidea GeForce MX440 64MB DDR (BTW, ITS INTERGRATED!!!!)
40GB Hard drive
4x DVD R

I think that sums it up.....

EDIT: And XP has been installed and used frequently for over 3.5 years!

you can't play bf2 on that , can you?

2007-11-27 23:56:04

#12

Havok: Nymphomaniac Treatment Specialist; +302|7130|Florida, United States

']['error wrote:
tazz. wrote:
You think you got a dodgy comp!?

My mate, has this, ok, prepare yourself......

AMD Athlon 2800+ running on a FSB of 333Mhz
Ram - 512MB DDR (NOT 2!)
GFX - Nvidea GeForce MX440 64MB DDR (BTW, ITS INTERGRATED!!!!)
40GB Hard drive
4x DVD R

I think that sums it up.....

EDIT: And XP has been installed and used frequently for over 3.5 years!
you can't play bf2 on that , can you?

Nope. GFX fails.

2007-11-28 00:49:43

#13

Crypto_420: Member; +25|7299|Portland

ig wrote:
o&o defrag

get it now!

2007-11-28 08:32:56

#14

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6909|The Twilight Zone

diskeeper

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2007-11-28 08:34:55

#15

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|7109

Diskeeper wins. Defrag once, keep it running in the background so it can do its work, and your drives will always be defragmented.

2007-11-29 04:04:26

#16

zeidmaan: Member; +234|6870|Vienna

Defragmenting is very important.
Also I guaranty you that your laptop will speed up drastically if you re-install windows and preferably format your HD.

2007-11-29 12:19:25

#17

ceslayer23: IN YOUR MIRROR; +142|6816|CLOSER THAN I APPEAR

Diskeeper deffinetly

It does a great job defragmenting and it even runs in the background to prevent it from getting defragmented again. Its not a resource hog when it runs in the background either.

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