you have a 500gb hard drive and you havent defragged in almost a year. its gonna take a while. if you defrag at least once a month, it will get faster. plus it needs some free space to work efficiently.

Originally Posted by Brink

Hello GuitarGuy, and welcome to Vista Forums.

I would recommend to use the free Auslogics Disk Defrag program. It does a good job of defragging, and it's much faster.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, I uninstalled 'the DeFraggler,' downloaded 'Auslogics Disk Defrag,'installed and started it. I'll reply when it finishes. Thanks again,
GUITARGUY

Originally Posted by kword88

you have a 500gb hard drive and you havent defragged in almost a year. its gonna take a while. if you defrag at least once a month, it will get faster. plus it needs some free space to work efficiently.

I figured it would take a while, but it shouldn't take 30 hours. It does have well over 300 GB of free space, though, so that part shouldn't be an issue. Thanks,
GUITARGUY

JK defrag is great too. Its less than 1MB, no install, and has plenty of switches to change how it runs. As an aside, Norton 360 also had built in defrag. Defragging once a month is enough.

+1 to Defragging once a month. Everyone has their own preference to defragging programs. I personally like PerfectDisk, but I'm partial as I use it at work to remote defrag client's computers.

All the above mentioned defragging programs are good (except I won't suggest anything Norton to anyone ever unless they run their own domain), some will even argue vista's is better as it allegedly keeps programs files together. While no one is going to agree on one program, a defragged hard drive SHOULD perform better then one that isn't. Your percentage completed on your defrag sounds typical if you've never defragged. I wouldn't worry about it unless you blue screen or hear a loud distinct clicking and get a sinking feeling in your chest. Welcome to the forum btw

Originally Posted by Frostmourne

JK defrag is great too. Its less than 1MB, no install, and has plenty of switches to change how it runs. As an aside, Norton 360 also had built in defrag. Defragging once a month is enough.

I'll check that out. I'm not too fond of anything Norton though. Thanks,
GUITARGUY

Originally Posted by truthkid

+1 to Defragging once a month. Everyone has their own preference to defragging programs. I personally like PerfectDisk, but I'm partial as I use it at work to remote defrag client's computers.

All the above mentioned defragging programs are good (except I won't suggest anything Norton to anyone ever unless they run their own domain), some will even argue vista's is better as it allegedly keeps programs files together. While no one is going to agree on one program, a defragged hard drive SHOULD perform better then one that isn't. Your percentage completed on your defrag sounds typical if you've never defragged. I wouldn't worry about it unless you blue screen or hear a loud distinct clicking and get a sinking feeling in your chest. Welcome to the forum btw

Bleh! I cringe when ever the blue screen of death is even mentioned. That is what led to the demise of my other computer (a dinosaur... it had a 1.1 GHZ single core T-bird processor lol). I think I got that screen every day lmao. I like Vista so far... it ain't terribly different from XP, but it's a bit of a change. Anyways, thanks Truthkid and everyone else,
GUITARGUY

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BTW, the defrag that was first mentioned to me worked like a dream! After installing it, it was done in 10 minutes! IDK if it just finished up after the other program I tried or what, but it worked great and it's a keeper. Thank You All

Why don't you just use the command prompt in Windows? Run the command prompt as an administrator and type in defrag "your drive letter here": -w. This will defrag the files that are larger than 64 MB also. Some programs don't defrag, including windows default defragger, files larger than 64MB.

Kudos to running at least once a month, I do it once a week through the command prompt and my pc runs awesomely.

Originally Posted by Blackhawk7188

Why don't you just use the command prompt in Windows? Run the command prompt as an administrator and type in defrag "your drive letter here": -w. This will defrag the files that are larger than 64 MB also. Some programs don't defrag, including windows default defragger, files larger than 64MB.

Kudos to running at least once a month, I do it once a week through the command prompt and my pc runs awesomely.

The performance gains you stand to get from defragging are dependent on how much data you move around your hard drive. Unless you run some sort of server or have torrent running 24 hours, I'd say you wouldn't notice if you defragged every other week, perhaps every month.

I agree with truthkid. I defragged my 120GB HDD about a month ago for the first time since I built it last May-ish. I didn't really notice a difference. And I do quite a bit of file movement and such. But if I did notice my pc slowing down a bit, it is usually a good and cheap process to see if it will help. I have only used the windows defrag though. I actually didn't know there were others out there till I started reading this forum. I don't know if I would be able to trust other ones.