err why should you even use more than 1 defragger .... ?

 

Why indeed... is more or less what I've been saying, for full disk defrag choose one defragger

(choice not critical) and keep using one and the same (per disk partition). I like to use the

Windows built-in ones. 

 

 

 

windows one hasn't changed since 90ies

Very wrong ! Microsoft has provided different defraggers since Windows 95, rarely house-made,

more often crippled versions, licensed from various 3rd parties (Symantec, Intel...).  

I don't consider all of them "suck", not that they excel, but they get the job done,

and the perceived price is right :=)

Edited September 20, 201510 yr by Ninho

wrong again

we are talking about NT

9x don't come into play as they sucked even more

 

and NT one hasn't changed since NT 4

and NT one hasn't changed since NT 4

Well, since there was no defragger of any kind in NT 4.00, something must have changed.

 

The first NT OS coming with a MS built-in defragger was Windows 2000 (and the defragger was a stripped down version of Diskeeper), see:

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/131017-msoft-uses-diskeeper-as-their-defrag-tool-trying-to-resize-partition/

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/131017-msoft-uses-diskeeper-as-their-defrag-tool-trying-to-resize-partition/?p=841932

 

Still for the record, references (by Ninho) to Intel or Symantec seem like not accurate.

 

jaclaz

IIRC in "about" dialog it says 1993

so it had to come somewhen between 3.x and 4

 

at least on XP it was like that

Edited September 21, 201510 yr by vinifera

IIRC in "about" dialog it says 1993

so it had to come somewhen between 3.x and 4

 

at least on XP it was like that

Diskkeeper was seemingly VAX/VMS originated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskeeper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condusiv_Technologies

and of course the product was on the market in 1993, but there was NO defragger shipped with Windows NT 3.x nor 4.00 by MS, the first one came with 2000:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/the-utilities-that-nt-4-0-forgot-disk-defragmenter/

 

jaclaz

Still for the record, references (by Ninho) to Intel or Symantec seem like not accurate.

 

Yet the Microsoft Disk Defragmenter, "defrag.exe" version 4.70,.belonging to Windows ME but which I use in 98SE, has a Symantec copyright that further references Intel application accelerator, iirc.

 

Still for the record, references (by Ninho) to Intel or Symantec seem like not accurate.

 

Yet the Microsoft Disk Defragmenter, "defrag.exe" version 4.70,.belonging to Windows ME but which I use in 98SE, has a Symantec copyright that further references Intel application accelerator, iirc.

 

I was talking of the "NT series", sorry, cannot really say about the "real origin" of non-NT versions , however the 4.70 (actually 4.70.1998) should be belonging to 98, and the Me version should be 4.90.3000, it is entirely possible that either version originated from Norton Utilities (for Windows) or some other Symantec product.

 

jaclaz

so its another taken product

ahahah epic