Simple really: dump the inbuilt defrag engine (which is very “basic� anyway,
to put it politely) and download ‘PerfectDisk 8’, a 180 day trial version
from Raxco that works great with Vista RTM!

Or wait for Executive Software to have their Vista compatible ‘Diskeeper’
ready in a few weeks – the best defragmentation engine around.


"tdawg" wrote:

Ya, thanks. It did defrag my C drive like u said.... i think. WHen it
started, it said 2% fragmented. After it was done, it said 5%, lol. But
atleast i know how ot do it now

thanks

"ozziaj" wrote in message
...
Simple really: dump the inbuilt defrag engine (which is very “basic�
anyway,
to put it politely) and download ‘PerfectDisk 8’, a 180 day trial
version
from Raxco that works great with Vista RTM!

Or wait for Executive Software to have their Vista compatible
‘Diskeeper’
ready in a few weeks – the best defragmentation engine around.


Or use the free http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/


Roy



"tdawg" wrote:

Ya, thanks. It did defrag my C drive like u said.... i think. WHen
it
started, it said 2% fragmented. After it was done, it said 5%, lol.
But
atleast i know how ot do it now

thanks

Diskeeper 2007 for Vista is ready now.
However, there is no free trial download at
this moment.

http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/solutions.asp
Diskeeper Corporation has announced Microsoft Windows Vistaâ„¢ platform support for the Diskeeper
2007 product line. It is a free update for licensed Diskeeper 2007 customers, as well as
customers with current maintenance contracts.


"ozziaj" wrote in message
...
Simple really: dump the inbuilt defrag engine (which is very “basic� anyway,
to put it politely) and download ‘PerfectDisk 8’, a 180 day trial version
from Raxco that works great with Vista RTM!

Or wait for Executive Software to have their Vista compatible ‘Diskeeper’
ready in a few weeks – the best defragmentation engine around.


"tdawg" wrote:

Ya, thanks. It did defrag my C drive like u said.... i think. WHen it
started, it said 2% fragmented. After it was done, it said 5%, lol. But
atleast i know how ot do it now

thanks

Did she call THAT an “improvement�?? Wow, must have had a bad hair day ....

"mayor" wrote:

The Vista Defrag is another MS technological improvement don't you know, or
so Victoria said in an earlier post.

To me Victoria seemed upset that us mere users did not understand the
technological benefits of the 'new and improved' MS Defrag.

--
Leo

When I was young and adventurous, I wanted to join a violent,
armed group with no regard for the law, but the IRS wasn't hiring.







"ozziaj" wrote in message
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Did she call THAT an “improvement�?? Wow, must have had a bad hair day
....

"mayor" wrote:

The Vista Defrag is another MS technological improvement don't you know,
or
so Victoria said in an earlier post.

The only place I can immediately find CleanUp and Defrag in one article is
in this type of article:
http://www.microsoft.com/atwork/getstarted/speed.mspx

For many, temporary internet files and temporary program files will tend to
be more fragmented and take up space on the beginning of the disk and are
deleted periodically.
If defrag does its thing and then these files are deleted, there is a
somewhat greater chance that the next files to be written to disk will be
written fragmented. Disk CleanUp won't hurt anything, and since defrag
takes care of itself with scheduling you should be all right.

"is it still advisable"?
I don't know.
I think that running Disk CleanUp occasionally is a good idea. Running Disk
Defragmenter occasionally is also a good idea.
If I were running both in the same short time period, I'd run Disk CleanUp
first for a small degree fragmentation prevention.

-Victoria


"Gerry Cornell" wrote in message
...


Victoria

In Vista is it still advisable to run Disk CleanUp ( or Vista equivalent )
before running Disk Defragmenter?


--

~~~~

Gerry

~~~~~~~~
Enquire, plan and execute.
Stourport, England
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Victoria House [MSFT] wrote:
Bug was recently filed for that one. It's fixed for Server/SP1.
There's a lot of things that can frag you besides defrag though, so
maybe it was one of them.

Glad it's working for you.. or at least running. If you want to
schedule C: defrags, you can use task scheduler (We have tasks there
that are used for our ScheduledDefrag you could use as a model).