February 5, 200719 yr i have never seen a defragmentor take 14 hours and still going, xp's never took that long with 50 gigs of video data and i'm only using 10 gigs atm. some kind of graph or timer would be nice to at least let me know its workinganyone know anltyhing about this?
February 5, 200719 yr Try other defrag software to see, if it will cause the same problem.Eg freeware soft Auslogics Disk Defrag, I use it instead of MS defrag.
February 5, 200719 yr Author i have that one, but it wont execute in vista, i forget the error messagei used it in xp and really like it but i'm trying to go without much 3rd party software this time round...i just think windows runs better over a period of time like that.however i would like to know if vista's defragger works fine for anyone else
February 5, 200719 yr Works fine, only I personally dislike that there are no progressbar nor advanced options.
February 5, 200719 yr Author hmmm....f* it, guess i'll just let it run till it quits, maybe my drive is just very badly fragmented
February 5, 200719 yr turning off UAC helped registry-compactors (speeds up from 5 mins on vista, to its usual 10 seconds).Maybe its similar here too....
February 5, 200719 yr Author lol, hey it finally quit...guess it was just heavily fragmented...geeeeeeez, it only ran for about an hour this time...i guess its previous 14 -/+ hour helped, dont think i'll be using this tool too much
February 6, 200719 yr lol, hey it finally quit...guess it was just heavily fragmented...geeeeeeez, it only ran for about an hour this time...i guess its previous 14 -/+ hour helped, dont think i'll be using this tool too muchSomething to keep in mind...All the new IO subsystems in Vista are far-better scheduled so that an app can't steal 100% utilization of an individual device -- which includes your hard drive. This can also make things process slower, especially such as defrag. But there's also an upside: Microsoft did this so your machine doesn't crawl while things like Indexing, Defragging and Virus Scanning are taking place.As such, you should be able to do nearly anything else you want while defrag is running in the background, and at the same time notice almost zero performance degredation. Not completely zero of course but nearly...Also, you shouldn't have to force the defrag -- it will begin auto-defragging everything in the background as you're doing other tasks. You'll notice HD activity occasionally, and if you go look at the new Resource Monitor, you'll sometimes see Defrag running. My first instinct was to kill it, but in the new way of scheduling processes and device usage with Vista, you truly don't notice outside of the flashing disk light and the noise of your heads seeking. Edited February 6, 200719 yr by Albuquerque
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