However, using the Windows Vista Defragmentation tool took longer… much longer. It took 8 minutes alone to analyze the drive. By now, contig. On top of that, it took Windows Vista 75 more minutes to defragment the hard-drive. As you can easily see, the new tools we will introduce to you will greatly cut your defragmentation time.
Please note a different tool was used to display the charts above. The charts did not come from the programs used in the tutorial. Disclaimer: Not everybody will defrag within 8 minutes because the level of fragmentation on each hard drive is different. The point I am trying to get across is that Power Defrag can defrag in a fraction of the time it takes Windows Defrag to defragment. Click here to download Power Defragmenter and Contig. They are both bundled together here.
What you need to know about contig is that it is a bit different than the other defragment programs out there — it is a single-file defragmenter. If contig determines that the file can be optimized, it is then moved into the free spaces of the disk. No installation is required. The next step is to run Power Defragmenter. Click next , and you will arrive at the screen below:.
Defragment File s : Allows you to defragment up to 4 files Defragment Folder s : Allows you to defragment up to 4 folders Defragment Disk: Allows you to defragment a disk PowerMode TM Disk Defragmentation: Defragments at a power equivalent to two consecutive defragmentations. Evan Omo ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Thank you Johanna for asking this question and Evan Omo for answering it.
I was doing a search around Vista trying to work out how I can do my own Defraging. Thanks for the explanation in the link and the link to the program. Looks to be a keeper. Much obliged. Sure thing Johanna and Hawk Glad I could help you guys out. I use Diskkeeper, never have to defrag.
It has some innovative facilities which are well suited to Vista. On first defrag it can take a long time - admitted.
After that it operates on your chosen schedule at a very low priority and should not normally interfere with anything you are doing with your computer. I have had mine running on this automatic feature since first release and must confess I have never noticed it giving me any problems. The whole point was that Microsoft decided it was not a program as such, but a background routine. A decision with which I can agree. I cannot understand why anyone would want to sit and watch all those little squares jumping around.
Like I said the Windows Vista defrag first off is not very efficient, because it has no customizable options you can really set other than the schedule and it has taken up to three hours to defrag my drive which I find unacceptable. The Vista defrag utility may work fine and I haven't found any problems with it, but it doesn't even tell me if my disks need to be defragged in the first place.
It also doesn't tell me how long its going to take. At least with a third party defrag utility I can actually see how fragmented my drive is. Also the auslogics program I linked to has a few more options where you can customize it and it has defragged my drive in about 20 minutes. IMO a third party defrag is much better than the built in Vista defrag. With Vsta it looks like Microsoft has dumbed down the interface of the Vista defrag utility so that a beginner could be able to use it.
I understand that but I want to be able to customize how I want the defrag done. I don't care to sit and watch the little blocks rearranging themselves either, but an estimated time to completion would be nice. You can also force the defragmenter to defragment everything. That is, even if the file fragments are larger than 64MB, the Vista defragmenter will still attempt to put the file into contiguous sectors.
To do this, run the defragger with the following options:. As you have probably have guessed, "-w" tells the Vista defrag tool to do a full defragmentation. All file fragments will be consolidated where possible.
You will still not get any feedback as to the progress of the defragmentation with the command line tool, just as you did not with the GUI version. However, at the beginning and the end of the defragmentation, "defrag" with the "-v" option will give a report, much like the old Windows XP GUI defragmentation utility.
Again, though, it will not report fragmented files with 64 MB fragments or larger as being fragmented. With the command line version of the Windows Vista defragmentation utility, you have at least a modicum of control over the defragger, and some information about your hard disk file fragmentation.
If you need any further details or fine control over the defragmentation of your hard disk, you may have to consider a third party defragmentation tool. All rights reserved. Do you find this article useful? You can learn of new articles and scripts that are published on howtohaven. This article is copyrighted. Please do not reproduce this article in whole or part, in any form, without obtaining my written permission.
To link to this page from your website, simply cut and paste the following code to your web page. If you find this site useful, please link to us. How to Perform a Full Manual Defragmentation of Your Hard Disk Under Windows Vista If you have tried doing a defragmentation of your hard disk under Windows Vista, you would have noticed that the defrag utility does not really give you any detailed information about your hard disk fragmentation level, show you the defragmentation progress while defragging, and in certain situations even defragment when you ask it to.
Manual Defragmentation There are of course reasons why you might want to override this default mechanism.
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