Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not...

I was having major issues with my phone (I use phone software similar
to that in a call center for my home phone), and decided to do some
general computer maintenance to try and fix it. My windows defragmenter
and Auslogics both said I was sitting at 8% fragmentation, which was not
a huge concern, but odd considering that I am a heavy computer user and
hadn't thought to defrag in a few months. Sensing that perhaps I was
missing something, I went ahead and downloaded Defraggler, ran the
analysis, and saw that it had me at 40% fragmentation. This disturbed
me. Mind you, I hadn't actually defragged at this point, just ran the
analysis.

I went ahead and did the rest of my usual maintenence first (chkdsk,
disk cleanup, regestry cleaner, etc), and then defragged useing
defraggler. It got me down to about 30% fragmentation, which was just
plain odd.

I went through various forums and found little I hadn't done (I already
do my maintenance in safe mode with all extraneous programs shut off,
for example) and, after about a week of of frustration and phone issues,
decided to format my machine on the spur of the moment. Thank the Gods
for external hard drives... I didn't lose much in my fit of temper.

When I got everything reinstalled and back in proper order, my phone
was working fine. I reinstalled Defraggler and did an analysis. I forget
what it was at, but it wasn't a big deal.

That was three weeks ago. My phone worked fine up until I hit about
15-16% fragmentation, and then decided too die. So I did my usual
maintenance and ran Defraggler when everything else was done.

I started out with 16% fragmentation, and wound up with 24%. Suffice it
to say, I'm... a tad upset.

I'd like to know if anyone else has any advice about how to fix this
issue and get my hard drive defragmented properly, if possible. I'd hate
to format again, as it would rather be a pain in unmentionable areas to
try and work Vista back into a position I consider usable.

And please don't give me the speeches about defragging being useless/
needless/ or otherwise pointless. I've read them all, and to be quite
frank, the difference in the way my software works is more than enough
for me to disgree on that point very strongly. Since I can't provide
numbers other than the ones I have, and have nothing other than "Gee,
it's amazing the way things stop working when my computer's fragmented
all to Hell" to give otherwise (which won't hold up), I won't sit and
debate the point either.

Thank you for any advice, in advance.


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Not sure if this is the right place to post this or not...

I was having major issues with my phone (I use phone software similar
to that in a call center for my home phone), and decided to do some
general computer maintenance to try and fix it. My windows defragmenter
and Auslogics both said I was sitting at 8% fragmentation, which was not
a huge concern, but odd considering that I am a heavy computer user and
hadn't thought to defrag in a few months. Sensing that perhaps I was
missing something, I went ahead and downloaded Defraggler, ran the
analysis, and saw that it had me at 40% fragmentation. This disturbed
me. Mind you, I hadn't actually defragged at this point, just ran the
analysis.

I went ahead and did the rest of my usual maintenence first (chkdsk,
disk cleanup, regestry cleaner, etc), and then defragged useing
defraggler. It got me down to about 30% fragmentation, which was just
plain odd.

I went through various forums and found little I hadn't done (I already
do my maintenance in safe mode with all extraneous programs shut off,
for example) and, after about a week of of frustration and phone issues,
decided to format my machine on the spur of the moment. Thank the Gods
for external hard drives... I didn't lose much in my fit of temper.

When I got everything reinstalled and back in proper order, my phone
was working fine. I reinstalled Defraggler and did an analysis. I forget
what it was at, but it wasn't a big deal.

That was three weeks ago. My phone worked fine up until I hit about
15-16% fragmentation, and then decided too die. So I did my usual
maintenance and ran Defraggler when everything else was done.

I started out with 16% fragmentation, and wound up with 24%. Suffice it
to say, I'm... a tad upset.

I'd like to know if anyone else has any advice about how to fix this
issue and get my hard drive defragmented properly, if possible. I'd hate
to format again, as it would rather be a pain in unmentionable areas to
try and work Vista back into a position I consider usable.

And please don't give me the speeches about defragging being useless/
needless/ or otherwise pointless. I've read them all, and to be quite
frank, the difference in the way my software works is more than enough
for me to disgree on that point very strongly. Since I can't provide
numbers other than the ones I have, and have nothing other than "Gee,
it's amazing the way things stop working when my computer's fragmented
all to Hell" to give otherwise (which won't hold up), I won't sit and
debate the point either.

Thank you for any advice, in advance.


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One possibility is that your phone software was not designed to continue
running properly if you defragment while it it is running.

Another possibility is that both the windows defragmenter and the Auslogics
defragmenter were designed to exclude anything that happens to be in use at
the moment from what it tries to defrag, but Defraggler does not. That
would mean it's likely to crash a lot of any programs that happen to be
running, including Windows Vista.

Want to try it with less software running and find out?

Want to guess that either Defraggler or the other two do not use the
entire C: as what to report defragmentation on?

Robert Miles