Jeff--
I really like Raxco but I have also used Diskeeper but they don't have as
generous an offer. Raxco taking into account that for many people, RTM may
not be available worldwide until later in January although I have already
seen it sold in Comp USA this morning along with Office 2007, is offerring
the Vista version for several months as a full functionality trial. I like
the interface for defragging at Boot Time (the MFT /Master File Table or
paging file--or running a boot time chkdsk a little better with Diskeeper
but Raxco has been my main squeeze.
If you're interested in defrag, Jill Zoeller's article has some good info
and Jill has been very concientious about posting a lot of the beta chats on
her blog, and a lot of other very good info, as has Josh at Windows
Connected who helps out frequently on these groups--including one with the
Vista defrag team/and some members of her file core services team at MSFT
that drills into the details of defrag in Vista:
From Jill Zoeller's helpful blog The Filing Cabinet:
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/default.aspx
Disk Defragmenter Beta Chat Transcript (July 26, 2006)
Chat Topic: Disk Defragmentation
Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2006
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pages/447168.aspx
A quick note about Defrag.exe parameters in Windows Vista
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...arameters.aspx
That MSFT is shipping utilities like this is to their credit. They try to
make them better every OS--and I wouldn't doubt that they are not going to
put out a competent utility that they've tested thoroughly if they put it
out at all. No one could possibly expect them to include for the price of
the OS many third party apps of course, and I'm sure they try to walk a fine
line legally as well and still take care of their customers that way.
They obviously deserve credit for improving defrag over the Win 9X Scan Disk
that took a long time, and was erratic, particularly in the dreaded (I so
hate to curse on the web "Win ME"--Win ME stood for 'Mental Emergency' or
''Miserable Experience' or "Most Eggregious" in IT vernacular), and they
have included a Diskmgmt tool that now will re-size partitions without
losing material and a DVD-writer in Vista.
As to the control panel icon for defrag in Vista, I don't see it on the
final relase. I've used every build they had since July, and I never
noticed one. I know you can hit defrag 3 ways:
1) you can as you can with many programs and locations simply type defrag
above the start button and it comes up immediately--Search in Vista and that
situation were quickly one of my favorite convenience type features in Vista
in contrast to Win XP's often erratic slow search
2) As in Win XP you can right click Computer or if you have it set to slide
out the Vista drive>properties>tools>defrag button
3) Defrag can be run at the command line.
If you have a CP icon, I'm not sure it's default unless I miss it, but in
addition to Ramesh's tweak/fix from his excellent site, you might try items
280 and 291 at Kelly'x XP and see if those regedits help you with defrag in
Vista. Many XP regedits there and VB scripts work in Vista, but
understandably not all.
Kelly's [MSFT MVP] Tweaks from Kelly's Korner
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
CH
"Jeff Gaines" <whitedragon@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:xn0euc1oc47yb8003@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On 30/11/2006 in message <eqby03HFHHA.4844@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl> Chad
> Harris wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> Thanks for the links. I didn't expect MS to distribute a full blown
> commercial de-fragger, it would be another opportunity for the competition
> authorities!
>
> I was surprised to be pointed to a non-existent icon in Control Panel
> though, nobody has commented on this.
>
> --
> Jeff Gaines