DiskKeeper Lite VS. MS Defrag

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Craig S - 03 Mar 2006 14:01 GMT

I think Mike Maltby advised that these two Tools have Different "methods" of
Defrag and suggested using one or the other. He never said one is better; DK
Lite is much faster BUT can anyone say if its "method" is quality enough to
forego the extra MS Defrag time and potential freezes, even in Safe Mode?
Thanks for any opinion!

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Mike M - 03 Mar 2006 15:23 GMT

I'm not sure it was me who posted originally. I don't use DiskKeeper Lite
but rather use Raxco's PerfectDisk. I do know though that PerfectDisk and
DiskKeeper Lite use different methods to calculate the extent to which a
disk is fragmented.

As for whether you should use DiskKeeper Lite or the MS Defragger (which
is based on DiskKeeper) has to be up to you and which works best for you
on your system. If DiskKeeper Lite does the job for you without problems
and MS Defrag freezes then I'd stick with the one that works.

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> I think Mike Maltby advised that these two Tools have Different
> "methods" of Defrag and suggested using one or the other. He never
> said one is better; DK Lite is much faster BUT can anyone say if its
> "method" is quality enough to forego the extra MS Defrag time and
> potential freezes, even in Safe Mode? Thanks for any opinion!

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Craig S - 04 Mar 2006 13:01 GMT

Thanks, Mike. I knew this wasn't a cut and dried answer and the only dilema
for amateurs like me is even knowing when your system issue is one of poor
Defrag quality Vs. the other zillion things that can confront a computer
user. I'll rock aling with the DK Lite for ease and see what happens. Thanks
again.

> I'm not sure it was me who posted originally. I don't use DiskKeeper Lite
> but rather use Raxco's PerfectDisk. I do know though that PerfectDisk and
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> > "method" is quality enough to forego the extra MS Defrag time and
> > potential freezes, even in Safe Mode? Thanks for any opinion!

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