This is a continuation from my last thread:
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1066583-Defraggler-vs-Win-7-Defrag[/url]
Last week I used Defraggler on my Windows 7 64 Bit, two days after running both my antivirus programs and deleting two severe threats. It was about a month plus a few days since I last ran it, after analyzing my C Drive and it showed a 5% fragmentation, while Windows 7 Defragmentor analysis showed 0% . No biggie, I thought. I ran Defraggler thinking it was more thorough and after six hours it finished with 0% fragmentation. Because of curiosity I ran analyze again and it came back with 25% fragmentation. Not knowing what to do, I analyzed it with Windows 7 and it still came back as 0%.
I looked at my free disk space, and what was 446 GB free space turned into 414. I looked at the one big file that couldn't be defragmented named "System Volume Information" and realized it was my old restore points. After what happened in the thread above I deleted my restore points to increase disk space. Free disk space jumped back to 445 GBs, but analyzing with Defraggler came back with 28% fragmentation, while Windows 7 still showed 0%.
I uninstalled Defraggler and installed Auslogics Boostspeed (Trial version), analyzing came back with 0%, along with Windows. After a few days I ran analyzing with Auslogics and fragmentation was 4%, but Windows STILL showed 0%. My free disk space, which was 445 GBs, is now 431 GBs.
This is confuse the hell out of me, and I'm wondering what is the best defragmentation program for Win 7 64-Bit, if Defraggler and Auslogics can be trusted, how often I should defrag, and if anybody has an idea with what is happening?
auslogic disk defrag is what I use
Defraggler works fine for me. Are you sure you're using the latest version?
If you remove a file it frees more total space but the space isn't at the end of the table it's some place in the middle so if you delete something other programs that need more space but have none near themselves will move in to the free space that's randomly in the middle creating more fragmentation. After you delete a large file you should defrag to get everything back in line to prevent fragmentation from going overboard.
Yes, I did make sure I had the latest version of Defraggler. Also, do some defragmentation programs work differently? Do they rearrange files in a similar order or different orders? Also, Now I have 436 free GBs, which I guess is better.
Most just consolidate, between them are the speed/algorithms in which they can do it.
some will organize in different ways. like in alphabetical order, startup files first, recent files first, etc
Do you think me using Defraggler "fragmented" it more by accident because it organizes files in a different way then the vanilla program?
I'm still wondering if Auslogics will have a different effect.
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