Diskeeper much use for Vista?

[Guest Anthony B]

I got this new Thinkpad X61 laptop with Vista 32 Home Basic mainly for

travelling.

This system comes with Diskeeper. But I disable all the scheduled defrag. I

want the system to defrag ONLY want I have the system at home, with lots of

free time, say, over night non-interrupted.

 

In this case, should I just use the Vista build in defrag program.

Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

[Guest brie@cheezwhiz.com]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:15:30 -0800, "Anthony B" <no.spam@no.spam.com>

wrote:

>I got this new Thinkpad X61 laptop with Vista 32 Home Basic mainly for

>travelling.

>This system comes with Diskeeper. But I disable all the scheduled defrag. I

>want the system to defrag ONLY want I have the system at home, with lots of

>free time, say, over night non-interrupted.

>

>In this case, should I just use the Vista build in defrag program.

>Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

 

Would you please parse that last sentence? Many thanks.

[Guest - Bobb -]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

 

"Anthony B" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message

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>I got this new Thinkpad X61 laptop with Vista 32 Home Basic mainly for

>travelling.

> This system comes with Diskeeper. But I disable all the scheduled

> defrag. I

> want the system to defrag ONLY want I have the system at home, with lots

> of

> free time, say, over night non-interrupted.

>

> In this case, should I just use the Vista build in defrag program.

> Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

>

It's been a few years for me, but it USED to be that DISKEEPER would

defrag all files AND leave all of the contiguous free space at the end of

the drive, whereas MS defrag , does defrag the FILES, but did not "put all

of the free space at the end".

[Guest SLoweCSL]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

Vista's builtin defragment program is a step back from XP. Though it can be

scheduled to run, if you run a manual defrag there is no longer any visual

progress window.

 

I use Diskeeper on both my machines, the latest version, 2008, runs with a

very low priority and I never notice that it's running and my discs stay

defragmented.

 

--

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A Scientists asks "Why does it work?"

A liberal arts major asks "Do you want fries with that?"

 

 

 

"- Bobb -" wrote:

>

> "Anthony B" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message

> news:uO%231uQbPIHA.4584@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> >I got this new Thinkpad X61 laptop with Vista 32 Home Basic mainly for

> >travelling.

> > This system comes with Diskeeper. But I disable all the scheduled

> > defrag. I

> > want the system to defrag ONLY want I have the system at home, with lots

> > of

> > free time, say, over night non-interrupted.

> >

> > In this case, should I just use the Vista build in defrag program.

> > Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

> >

> It's been a few years for me, but it USED to be that DISKEEPER would

> defrag all files AND leave all of the contiguous free space at the end of

> the drive, whereas MS defrag , does defrag the FILES, but did not "put all

> of the free space at the end".

>

>

[Guest John Hanley]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

From my pov, the Vista defragment program works just fine; it is automatic

and I don't either need or want the bother of watching it work or worry

about when it might need to be done.

 

"SLoweCSL" <SLoweCSL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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> Vista's builtin defragment program is a step back from XP. Though it can

> be

> scheduled to run, if you run a manual defrag there is no longer any visual

> progress window.

>

> I use Diskeeper on both my machines, the latest version, 2008, runs with a

> very low priority and I never notice that it's running and my discs stay

> defragmented.

>

> --

> An Engineer asks "How does it work"

> A Scientists asks "Why does it work?"

> A liberal arts major asks "Do you want fries with that?"

>

>

>

> "- Bobb -" wrote:

>

>>

>> "Anthony B" <no.spam@no.spam.com> wrote in message

>> news:uO%231uQbPIHA.4584@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> >I got this new Thinkpad X61 laptop with Vista 32 Home Basic mainly for

>> >travelling.

>> > This system comes with Diskeeper. But I disable all the scheduled

>> > defrag. I

>> > want the system to defrag ONLY want I have the system at home, with

>> > lots

>> > of

>> > free time, say, over night non-interrupted.

>> >

>> > In this case, should I just use the Vista build in defrag program.

>> > Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

>> >

>> It's been a few years for me, but it USED to be that DISKEEPER would

>> defrag all files AND leave all of the contiguous free space at the end of

>> the drive, whereas MS defrag , does defrag the FILES, but did not "put

>> all

>> of the free space at the end".

>>

>>

[Guest Anthony B]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

<brie@cheezwhiz.com> wrote in message

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> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:15:30 -0800, "Anthony B" <no.spam@no.spam.com>

> wrote:

>>Diskeeper does not seems to do much extra for me, right?

>

> Would you please parse that last sentence? Many thanks.

 

Diskeeper does not do any more than the standard defragment program in the

Windows, correct?

[Aevin]

Re: Diskeeper much use for Vista?

 

What version of Diskeeper does it come with? Is it the latest?

 

Diskeeper 2008 is very good. It is better than vista's defragger because it comes with the choice of manual/scheduled/auto defrag and also you can apply a specific defrag mode for a specific partition or drive. For eg. C: can be set to defrag automatically, and D manually. You also get VSS compatibility and some other bells and whistles with DK 2008.