Quote: Originally Posted by
dannymichel 
What are the expensive programs you're talking about?
They are the full professional retail versions of defrag programs. (Ex: Disk Keeper, Auslogic's, etc) Just make sure they are Vista compatible & have the boot option.
Found something while I was digging more. It says it's for all OS & lists XP but not Vista, so may need to run with compatibility mode. Definetely will need to do "Run as administrator". Program is called "PageDefrag V2.32" off Microsoft's website.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/PageDefrag.mspx
SEEMS VISTA DOES IT AUTOMATICALLY THOUGH.
Here's a registry hack for
"Automatic Boot Disk Optimization" (defrag) in Vista. Should be enabled by default. Here's how to check:
1. Open Start Menu.
2. In white line (Start Search) area, type
Regedit and press Enter.
3. Click
Continue button for UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction 5. In right pane, you should see
Enable with value
Y (Enabled) or
N (Disabled)
6. If you don't see
Enable, but see
Disable instead, then:
A) right click on
Disable
B) click
Rename
C) type
Enable and press Enter
D) right click this
Enable
E) click
Modify
F) type
Y (for data)
G) click
OK to apply
7. Close regedit.
Hope this works for you. Sorry it took a bit to dig up all the dirt on this one,
Shawn