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Ways to defragment Vista clearly
Nov 2nd
When defragmenting Vista operating system, you will find that Microsoft has eliminated the status icon of the defragmentation, and fragmentation analysis interface. Hence, users can not, as what they can do in windows XP, see the fragmentation rate of the computer to make sure whether to defragment the computer or not. That is very woeful. But here, you will get tips on how to clearly defragment vista without difficulties.
It is a little difficult to defragment a vista computer because of the unfriendly user interface— no report and no progress bar. But does it mean that we can not clearly defragment a vista computer? NO, with the method below, you can defragment your vista computer easily.
1) Click Start Menu.
2) Go to Programs and then Accessories.
3) Right click Command Prompts to select “Run as administrator”.
4) Type the command as follow: defrag (drive letter): –a, for example, defrag c: -a, and then press Enter.
After that, there will be a generated report showing the volume size, Free space, Largest free space extent, and Present file fragmentation and suggestion on whether to defragment the volume or not. But please note that it will take some time to finish based on the size and the fragmentation of the hard disk you select.
But in my opinion, to make the defragmentation easily, it is much better to depend on some defrag programs. Of all the defrag programs I have used, Advanced Defrag is the one that impressed me so much: its friendly user interface, the big buttons with clear function on its interface and the pie-chart design make everything very easy and simple. What is more, users are provided a very detailed generated web-report, showing the fragments on the computer after the Analyze and report about the fragments before and after the defragmentation after the Fragment button, making every defragmentation simple and straightforward.
So I deeply recommend you to use this defrag program in you want to defragment your vista computer clearly. You can go here for a free 7-day trial of this program.
Main problems in defragmenting Vista— How to solve defragment problems in Vista
Oct 27th
When defragmenting a Vista computer, you can directly use the disk defragmenter that comes within the Vista operating system. But if you have defragmented your Vista computer, you will always encounter some problems as what you can see in the description below. In this article, we will discuss some commonly-met defragment problems on Vista and what should be paid attention to when run a disk defrag on a Vista computer.
1) Unfriendly user interface.
Unlike XP or other defrag programs, what you get from the Vista defragment interface is only the word: Defragmenting, without a chart showing where the fragments are, and how about the defragment process.
2) No progress bar
When beginning a defragment process in Vista, it is impossible for you to see how the progress has been made, what is the estimated time and remaining time for what you get from its interface is: This will take a few minutes to a few hours. Due to this, lots of PC users decide to stop halfway because of the endless defragment.
3) No report
When running a disk defrag in XP, you will always get a report telling what the rate of the fragments is, and then decide whether to defragment the disk or not. On the contrary, even though Vista provides us a choice to analyze the fragments, there is no report generated after the analysis. What you always get will be a suggestion to defragment your computer or not. This is not humanized.
So what should you do in order to avoid these problems when defragmenting a Vista computer? It is recommended that you can defragment the computer in safe mode. Hence, without the interference of other running programs, the defragment process will become more smooth and faster. Or in order not to interrupt the proper usage of the computer, if time permits, you can set it to automatically defragment the computer in a mid-night, when the computer is not being used. But in my opinion, this will be more troublesome to finish this defragment process every time.
So if your Vista computer is always used for school working, official production or other kinds of multi-editing, it is deeply recommended that you can depend on a special designed defrag program to run a disk defrag on vista, making it run faster. And Advanced Defrag will be a better one for you.
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