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Best defragger for 7... the default?

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I've noticed a couple of times now if I defrag 7 with a third party program I get a slight increase in the time it takes for folders to appear when opening a window. When I use the built in program it doesn't happen, and after doing a little research on the matter it seems many defrag programs are not OS compatible and mismanage OS files that aren't supposed to be moved, or are supposed to be moved in a certain way(?). It seems like you can't just trust a program to take the OS fully into account even if it says it's compatible. I think for the majority of programs that just means compatible to the extent that it won't crash or majorly malfunction.
 
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nope I do believe mussels sticked it ultimate defrag is what its called
 
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Personally, the only defrag I've ever noticed an increase in performance after running is/was JKDefrag which is now My Defrag....
 
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Default defragger in Win7 is good enough. Just set it to daily if you move files around very often.
Otherwise weekly will do the trick just fine. Works fine and results are also good.

If you don't like it, "Defraggler" is the best imo. Small, fast and it works.
 
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Defraggler, unless I missed it in a recent update, does not "optimize" it only defrags and consolidates free space. Which is one of the reasons it seems so fast.
 
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Flak said:
Defraggler, unless I missed it in a recent update, does not "optimize" it only defrags and consolidates free space. Which is one of the reasons it seems so fast.
Click to expand...

No. There are two modes. Fast defrag and complete optimization. And it is fast in either mode.
 
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That's awesome, may give it a shot again. Priform should probably update the stickies in their forums then, lol. Some of the stickies still say it doesn't do an optimize and to use JKDefrag (which is now My Defrag) if you want the optimize feature.
 
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RE : Best defragger for 7... the default?

MyDefrag, Auslogics Disk Defrag are compatible with Windows 7.
 
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I use Auslogics defrag. its fast as hell
 
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Diskeeper, as always, is my choice! Fragmentation prevention is cool.
 
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