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        <title><![CDATA[Twin Lakes Services - Defraggler NICE]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have been using all Piriform products for many years. As a tech service, I find Defraggler as an exceptional tool to add to my arsenal. Many options may be used for particular situations. I would highly recommend any or all other products from Piriform. Ha Ha, I am not affiliated with that company, however the use of their incredible products has made my customers and friends computers run like new! Most importantly, first discover what kinds of file types are in their directories. Find the largest size files and their extensions. Be sure to click on the advanced button and type in the size of your choice of large files to be moved to the end of the drive (the outer perimeter of the actual hard drive disk) you are defragmenting. The default is 250MB. I first tried 150MB for 1GB .avi files and .vob. That did not work very well. I then tried 500MB min or larger and my storage movie drive seems to be rather well organized. It is also a fun program to experiment with! Lots of options to try!Roderick Gouin,  Twin Lake Services, South Carolina]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:53:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Product Spotlight: Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[USB option not offered for download.Found it, hidden at the bottom of the download page.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Golan]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:03:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Look below the &quot;Donate&quot; buttons]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I went to the web site, clicked &quot;Download&quot;. I see the &quot;Donate&quot; buttons, but if you look right below them, there are links to download, one says &quot;Download from FileHippo&quot; the other says &quot;Alternative Download&quot;.J.Ja]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Justin James]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:01:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I thought about trying the third party defrag since you wrote that it was free.  Where can you download the program for free? Everytime I clicked on the download button the page would go to 'DONATE.'  I tried all the links on the page but no download without a 'DONATION.']]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:06:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Defraggler not always successful]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I had a particular hard drive that Defraggler would not progress on, even overnight.  The Microsoft defragger worked in about 4 hours to completion.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[bcasner@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:34:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[wtw@chello.nl]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For many years we use &quot;Perfect Disk&quot; from Raxco.It is fast, rock solid and has many options. A.o. it can defragment system files &amp; directories that can't be done while Windows is running.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Havelock]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:19:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Product Spotlight: Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[LOVE Defraggler.  Definitely makes a difference over the plain ole Windows Disk Defrag.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ssemmens]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:06:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Product Spotlight: Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Was using defraggler at home and wanted to replace my work PC's default defrg as well with Defraggler, but it keeped on bombing. Then I read about Auslogic on here and replace work and home PC's. Much better]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:21:52 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using Defraggler on multiple drives...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I wouldn't want to use any defrag utility on multiple partitions on the same physical drive (which is most likely on a workstation). If it's a server, just schedule a Saturday night batch job like this:C:\Program Files\defraggler\df.exe C:C:\Program Files\defraggler\df.exe D:C:\Program Files\defraggler\df.exe E: etc..It can't be that hard, can it? Go to the prompt. CD into the defraggler folder and type &quot;df.exe /?&quot;It's amazing what you find when sleuthing. (eg: you can use it exclusively on some nasty data-base instead of the whole drive..)SMP - To run multiple DF.exe simultaneously seems harder since it's probably not SMP aware. It seems to use &quot;Kernel Spinlocks&quot; a lot when viewed with Process Explorer. On a server you'd have to use multiple CMD shells with the START command with an /AFFINITY switch to pin DF.exe down to a single core. Try it, if speed is required, but use only one instance per core...On a workstation you should be able to use PsExec -a    to get multiple cmd instances running.Note: PsExec is part of the PsTools package at Microsoft Technet (www.sysinternals.com)]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:13:38 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Product Spotlight: Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I am new to Defraggler, but am glad to have it.  I have XP machines myself, but my mom went to live with my brother for a while a few months ago, and was appalled at the condition of his machine.  I won't even go into it.She tried the Vista defragger, this being our first real experience with Vista.  After running overnight, it still wasn't finished.  I started looking things up online, and what I found about Vista's defragger I didn't like.I knew of Defraggler, but hadn't tried it.  I had her download it, and I downloaded it here, so I could guide her through installation and the running of the program.When it was finished, I had her reboot.  It made a really huge difference in the performance of my brother's machine!  Now, after reading this article, I might give it a go on my other XP machines.  Thank you!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:03:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tried it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've tried defraggler but it simply doesn't have the features of the Diskeeper 2009 Pro that I use on my home desktop. While Diskeeper has system files defrag, auto defrag, simultaneous multi-drive defrag etc, defraggler unfortunately lacks these useful features; so DK is not getting uninstalled from my machine any time soon.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:51:41 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Defraggler]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Back in 2000 or 2001 I expressed my dislike of having my personal machine take all night.  A friend told me to give Diskeeper and I was impressed (very fast), but no file compression unless boot defrag was used.  I stuck with DK for a long time.  Another friend pointed out open-source 3-4 years ago where I have become enamored to the open source movement.  I found Defraggler at least a year or so ago and began to use it.  I was fairly happy with the program, but still used DK for boot time defrag.  A few weeks ago I learned of SmartDefrag in a post about UltraDefrag.  Ultra did not work on win 7 so it was tossed.  Disk Keeper took one look at a 1 TiB drive on home machine and demanded more money.  I installed SmartDefrag a few weeks ago and punted both DK and Defraggler off Win 7 and Win XP machines.  I am delighted with SD because it is faster than Defraggler and demands no money as Diskeeper.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[PoppaTab]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:04:35 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: Product Spotlight: Defraggler defrag hard disk utility]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been using it for at least a year now with no problems.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[kb6252@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:25:14 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[cheers]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I chewed a flashdrive in about a week before I stumbled on that little bit of information. Ah so long ago now when a 1gig was a big flashdrive.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Neon Samurai]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:21:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thanks for the Heads Up on Flash]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for the heads up on defragmentation of a flash drive. I had no idea that a dimunition of the device would result.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric Hall]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:24:25 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Almost anything...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[...seems to be faster than the MS tool.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:56:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I still believe in it]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I've been defragging since I bought Disk Optimiser for DOS back in the 80s.The MS 'effort' is so slow, a noob might think that defrag is not worth the time.In addition to _proper_partitioning_, defrag is even more important with huge drives.  They aren't _that_ fast.  Speed has not kept up with capacity.At least use Auslogics.  I often use Ultra defrag, as it's even faster. (Not as thorough.)First time I tried 'Smart', it bugged, and recovery was easy.  Will try it again.  Will try Defraggler.I am not happy with DK, and it _costs_.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jeslurkin]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:50:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Very fast]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sometimes defrag will complete within minutes.  Auslogics is another great defrag tool.  Also free.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[raid0]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:14:39 -0700</pubDate>
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