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#1 OFFLINE   razz

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 03:46 AM

I downloaded your Defraggler and I also have JKDefrag. Both seem excellent to me.

In your opinion what is the main difference between the two and are they both equally good or not?

Thank you for your time.

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 05:21 AM

Well Defraggler is a simple defragger. You can pick and choose which files to defrag, you can have the whole drive defragged, and optionally defrag the free space.

For defragging the whole drive though, JkDefrag has more options. For example it can optimize files in various ways (sorting by name, size, last modified, etc).

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 05:21 AM

View Postrazz, on Sep 17 2008, 11:46 PM, said:

I downloaded your Defraggler and I also have JKDefrag. Both seem excellent to me.

In your opinion what is the main difference between the two and are they both equally good or not?

Thank you for your time.
Both good for different reasons. Both good for Analysis purposes.
For daily use you will find Defraggler the speediest file/folder defragger, most informative and the easiest.
JkDefrag is best for optimizing but optimizing is not needed that often.
A quick defrag is not needed every day either.

Windows Disk Defragmenter is the simplest and safest for MOST users.

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Posted 18 September 2008 - 08:14 AM

This has been discussed before in http://forum.pirifor...showtopic=17584
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Posted 18 September 2008 - 09:30 PM

Jkdefrag may be good, but looks like a bad GUI and complicated.

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Posted 19 September 2008 - 07:33 PM

View PostOmi Azad, on Sep 18 2008, 03:30 PM, said:

Jkdefrag may be good, but looks like a bad GUI and complicated.
There's absolutely nothing complicated about JkDefrag in any way shape or form.

You simply run JkDefrag.exe or any of the other executables provided in the zip package and they automatically defrag using the recommended settings - yes automatically defrag without having to click a single thing in the program, or fiddle with any settings.
Complexity of incoherent design.