It reminds of the windows defrag but a lot faster.

It said that some files could not be defragged. It even tries to defrag files that are in use. It needs a skip option. I would like to defrag multiple drives at once either. I have a competitor defragger and it defrags everything completely with out issues.

I believe it does need quite a bit of work. I have been holding off on this product for quite a bit. I will use ccleaner and thats it for now. Recuva is ok but it needs to be a lot better as well.

I have had issues on xp service pack 3 and now i am on vista home premium service pack 1 but I am upgrading to service pack 2 soon. Its a 32bit system as well.

Thanks for reading.

I'm currently an IT specialist, I've taken the liberty of using this product on over 300+ machines. Within my time using Defraggler I have had not one, let me say that again, not one problem with this software. Most of the users that have issues with any product made from Piriform are Vista users, in my opinion Piriform shouldn't even support such a s**t show of an OS. But to each his own I suppose. My advice to you, go back to XP SP3 and wait till Windows 7 comes out, then think of switching from XP.

By the way of course it's trying to defragment files that are currently in use, have you read the file list? If you have a problem with that why don't you go ahead and boot in safe mode and defragment the computer then.

And I've tried 3 different defraggers. WINDOWS O&O and dDefraggler. I would go with Piriform ANY day of the week.

Here you go, a treat from me to you.

I use Smart Defrag and Auslogics Disk Defrag. Both products work on anything including Vista without Safe Mode.

A IT Specialist is just a title. It doesn't prove how smart an individual is with a computer. Its a job. Anybody can be a Information Technology Specialist with a lot a of time on the computer depending on how much time is spent. I spend an average 8 hours or more each day on the computer. Countless hours on a computer and it seems to be quite fun.

...Win7 has Shadow Copies and System Restore points, which are 90% of the "bugs" reported here, too. Switching to it won't resolve those problems.

I wasn't talking about OS in general, the move to VISTA wasn't a good idea on his part. I wasn't speaking on defraggler when I told him to move from that OS. I was basically telling him not to get off XP Pro until Windows 7 comes out. So that wasn't a remedy to his problem, simply a suggestion.

To rishosting;

It may be a title but a title that I earned going to school. I wasn't trying to say, I'm right BECAUSE I'M AN IT SPECIALIST... I was saying, BEING an IT specialist you work with COUNTLESS computers, which would be a more controlled test rather than doing it on one computer. Am I right to assume that rishosting?

Sorry I didn't make myself clearer when I wrote that. I can see how you could perceive that wrong.

Ya. Your right. I see what you mean now.

If I want to be sure that all files are defragmented, I boot into the windows recovery console and run a command line defrag. I think Defraggler does a great job on my XP SP3 machines even when windows is running in normal mode. I disable hibernation and system restore on all my XP machines, which may account for a smoother experience.

I checked out the new defraggler. Very impressive on my computer now.