![]() ![]() Probably the only way to get a meaningful answer would be to ask the makers of Smart Defrag why their defragger says one thing while WDD says something drastically different (that is a large disparity). This is probably why most defrag programs will disable the built-in when installed. So you are bound to end up with various different reports.Īlso, the built-in can't address all files (like system files that are in use when Windows is running) but if I recall correctly it will still report them (I haven't used WDD in a while so I'm a bit foggy on what it does or won't do) some of the freebies seem to ignore and not count files they are not designed to address, so maybe the discrepancy is what files get counted. Some limit the size of the files the address, others stress the amount of free space, while others stress file placement ("the closer they are to the center, the faster they will be accessed"), etc. IMO, the reason for the discrepancy is that different defrag utilities use different parameters and different algorithms to determine how bad a disk is fragmented. I don't really encounter anything running slow except Firefox, but it seems like every time it's slow, it's the site, not the browser.Īll of this still doesn't answer my fundamental question: How can a 3rd-party program like Smart Defrag say that everything is defragged while Windows' defragger says I have 3,972 defragmented files!? That may be due in part to the fact that while my laptop has Win 7, my desktop has XP SP3 with 2GB RAM, an E8400 Core 2 Duo CPU, and a 500GB 7200RPM Seagate HDD - a relatively fast machine. ![]() But I have no evidence that my programs open quicker after a SD defrag than they did before. And it also purports to "optimize" the files by moving those accessed most frequently to the outer tracks of the drive. In my tests, there is no doubt that Smart Defrag is much faster than WD (Windows Defragger). The 3rd-party defraggers promote two things: Speed and optimization. Windows is the OS and they provide a defragger that (presumably) is designed to make Windows run as efficiently as possible. Click to expand.I've been wondering the same thing. ![]()
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