mhack2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 Hey guys ive been using BitTorrent alot recently and when I just analyzed the space I had on my hard drive it showed that there was about 100GB of fragmented files from my downloads, not including the items themself. If anybody could tell me how to remove all the fragmented files or a program that could help me that would be great. Thanks~matt~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torrero Posted December 30, 2007 Report Share Posted December 30, 2007 JKdefrag and CCleaner are pretty good.http://filehippo.com/download_jkdefrag/http://filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewelisheaven Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 Built-In defragger works well as long as you don't use the hard drive. As well as any search will bring up free programs in this category. I have used them all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted December 31, 2007 Report Share Posted December 31, 2007 The built-in defragger is dog slow. It's next to worthless. JkDefrag is, indeed, a fair defragmenter, and it's standalone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 1, 2008 Report Share Posted January 1, 2008 I haven't used JkDefrag yet though have heard a lot about it. Correct me if I'm wrong though, but since JkDefrag itself claims to be 100% safe as it uses Microsoft's own defrag APIs, how can it be that much faster than Microsoft's own defragger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Using the same APIs doesn't mean everything is implemented in the same manner -- look to µTorrent for an example (it uses Win32 for the interface, as most GUI applications do at some level, but many/most of them aren't as efficient) So I guess my answer would be "it just is." It may well have been laziness in coding, or something unintentional that caused the built-in defragmenter to be slow, but I tend to doubt that. AFAIK, Disk Defragmenter was created by Executive Software, based on their Diskeeper product. I wouldn't be too surprised if they crippled the built-in version just so they could get more sales for their flagship product.[/conspiracy-theory-mode] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajones81 Posted January 2, 2008 Report Share Posted January 2, 2008 Interesting theory Ultima, but quite plausible. Downloading JKDefrag now. Of course, it's not gonna be much use as long as most of my partitions on all 3 disks are chock full thanks to utorrent! (Hmm, some major digital spring-cleaning is in order, so time to stop procrastinating, I guess!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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