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What is the Best Defrag Software for Windows 8?

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June 22, 2013 5:26:23 PM

Some people say that certain programs are better than others when it comes to defragging while others say that it doesn't matter and the original windows defragger works the best. So what defrag software should I go with?

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April 12, 2014 12:25:51 PM

There are many defragmenting tools out there and many are free. My experience has been positive using MyDefrag having acquired optimum performance with this excellent tool.. I have lowered my boot time and my PC is much more snappier when loading software and booting...
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April 12, 2014 1:44:40 PM

auslogics is pretty good. i've been using it for a while with no problems.
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April 12, 2014 1:58:47 PM

I've been using Norton products (Symantec) since before Win95 ever showed up (no comments plz!) and never had a problem with Norton's Optimizing suites, so I'm a lil bit biased to say the least.
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October 11, 2014 8:35:05 AM

clutchc said:
I like Auslogics Defrag. It's free, FAST, and have used it for years... from Vista, thru Win7, and during my short unhappy experience with Win8. Works great.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/downlo...

Does that mean you re-installed windows 7? When you said "during my short unhappy experience with Win8" Can you tell me
why WIN 8 was such a failure to you, I also still use WIN 7 Ultimate 32-bit OS, I am very happy not upgrading to another Windows version..YET...but since you've already tried it what are the PRO's & CON's if its no trouble? Thank you
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October 11, 2014 12:04:48 PM

not a good idea to replace the windows 8.x defrag with a 3rd party tool.
Mainly for the simple reason that if Microsoft breaks the software, hundreds of thousands of machines will fail and Microsoft will make a fix in a few days. Often some other poor slob will have their system break before yours and you will have a fix before your system even has the same failure condition. If you install a third party program, you have to detect and recognize any failure and go and find the fix and install it from the vendors website.
(that process does not work well for most people, how many people know to update their USB ports drivers when 2 of their CPU cores hang.)




DrSloop said:
Some people say that certain programs are better than others when it comes to defragging while others say that it doesn't matter and the original windows defragger works the best. So what defrag software should I go with?


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October 11, 2014 1:23:16 PM

Jadequest99 said:
clutchc said:
I like Auslogics Defrag. It's free, FAST, and have used it for years... from Vista, thru Win7, and during my short unhappy experience with Win8. Works great.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/downlo...

Does that mean you re-installed windows 7? When you said "during my short unhappy experience with Win8" Can you tell me
why WIN 8 was such a failure to you, I also still use WIN 7 Ultimate 32-bit OS, I am very happy not upgrading to another Windows version..YET...but since you've already tried it what are the PRO's & CON's if its no trouble? Thank you


I was an early adapter of Win8; before 8.1 even. I had it on 2 PCs and a Surface Pro. It wasn't ready for prime time back then, and the Surface Pro was a lousy excuse for a tablet with its tiny screen at 1920x1080 (IMO). The Pro went back to the store, and the PC's got Win7 re-installed. I've still got an unused copy of Win8.1 on the shelf that came with a new Thinkpad I bought. It came with both 7 Pro and 8 Pro. Naturally, it has 7 Pro on it.

I had many complaints. My biggest complaint with Win8 was... well, Koroush explains it much better than I can: http://www.tweakguides.com/Windows81_1.html
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October 11, 2014 2:23:11 PM

clutchc said:
Jadequest99 said:
clutchc said:
I like Auslogics Defrag. It's free, FAST, and have used it for years... from Vista, thru Win7, and during my short unhappy experience with Win8. Works great.
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/downlo...

Does that mean you re-installed windows 7? When you said "during my short unhappy experience with Win8" Can you tell me
why WIN 8 was such a failure to you, I also still use WIN 7 Ultimate 32-bit OS, I am very happy not upgrading to another Windows version..YET...but since you've already tried it what are the PRO's & CON's if its no trouble? Thank you


I was an early adapter of Win8; before 8.1 even. I had it on 2 PCs and a Surface Pro. It wasn't ready for prime time back then, and the Surface Pro was a lousy excuse for a tablet with its tiny screen at 1920x1080 (IMO). The Pro went back to the store, and the PC's got Win7 re-installed. I've still got an unused copy of Win8.1 on the shelf that came with a new Thinkpad I bought. It came with both 7 Pro and 8 Pro. Naturally, it has 7 Pro on it.

I had many complaints. My biggest complaint with Win8 was... well, Koroush explains it much better than I can: http://www.tweakguides.com/Windows81_1.html


Wow that was a very lengthy explanation from the tweakguide.com link, thank you for the response.
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From my perspective, Koroush Ghazi is the best. He used to write the game tweaks for Nvidia's Gforce.com site until they had a falling out. You can still see his older tweaks on his site under 'game guides'.
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