This is a comparison chart between what MSFT ships and Raxco Ships as a
defragger. Take a look by doing a mouseover each feature:
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfec.../compareV8.cfm
Info on Perfect Disk vs. Other Defrags
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/
You can do a free trial for 5 months of Perfect Disk by Raxco. It's the
difference between a little league ball player in grade school and the pros.
I'd go with the pros.
You can't expect MSFT financially or legally to ship a defrag utility that
compares with companies who make them and they won't and don't.
If I were you or anyone else, even though you can run the native defrag in
Vista, I'd not touch it because it simply does not compare in quality with
the one from
www.raxco.com Perfect Disk which not only works in Vista but
can be tried for about 5 months full functionality. It will have no impact
on the native defrag that they ship with Vista, except that it's so much
better you won't be using it. It also does boot time defrag of your MFT.
Here is some info on the very low end defragger that MSFT ships with Vista
from Jill Zoeller's [MSFT] blog :
https://blogs.technet.com/filecab/articles/440717.aspx
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"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0eubwv8kj1k000@msnews.microsoft.com...
>I installed Diskeeper Light - mistake, it doesn't work so I un-installed
>it.
>
> Now when I right click on a drive in Explorer and select 'Defragment Now'
> I get a dialog telling me the Disk Defragmenter is not installed and to
> install it by clicking the Add or Remove Programs Icon in Control Panel.
>
> a) By un-installing Diskeeper Light have I managed to un-install the Vista
> defragmenter?
> b) The error message is going to create some issue since there is no Add
> or Remove Programs Icon in Control Panel.
> c) I found the de-fragmenter through help & support and it's running now
> so the message is incorrect.
>
> Is this 'Working As Designed'?
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines