Defragging With Piriform

fifitrix123

I have decided to do a defrag with this free programme but it has been going for 2 hours now and only done 30% is this normal?

My computer has been really slow which is why I decided to do this, please tell me I am doing right thing?

d900

i cant tell you how long it will take but 2 hours isnt a bad thing just leave it going and avoid doing anything on the pc

are u doing the right thing? i could argue alot about defragging but if it gives ur pc a new lease of life go for it

if ur running windows that has its own defragger btw

fifitrix123

thank u:beer:

d900

i wouldnt see it as a long term fix

thirascule

What may give you a far greater boost is Page defrag. It consolidates the pagefile (virtual memory). I've seen PC's with 768Mb pagefiles in over 1000 fragments before. The improvement is remarkable.

I unzip it into a folder in the Program Files folder and pop a shortcut somewhere handy. If the page file is large and fragmented it too can take ages. It will run on your next reboot so best to plan for it.

Conor_3

But unless you have a fixed size pagefile, it'll only end up fragmented again the next time its used.

penrhyn

I thought I'd give Defraggler a go as well, still churning away after a couple of hours,at 37%. So decided to abort the run.
Then ran Auslogics defrag, which i already had which did the job in minutes, oddly enough.
You may want to try it

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

sra

I got Defraggler to go fast by doing the following -

• Go to the list view and check all files
• Sort the list by filesize and uncheck some of the big files (Defraggler seemed to be getting stuck on files over a GB)
• Now you should see Defraggler churn through the defrag very fast.

• Next click Advanced > Defrag Freespace (allow fragmentation)
• When it's finished run Defraggler again. It should be able to go through your big remaining files relatively quickly

Don't ask me why I went through all that rather than just trying another defrag program. Was just experimenting.:D