Our friend decided she doesn’t need a new laptop after seeing how well hers now runs. After that it booted up ready to use in about one minute 20 seconds. Then we prevented half a dozen unnecessary programs from running at startup, then ran the Win XP defragmenter. After that it restarted and was ready to use in just over 2 minutes. It removed over 2GB of junk files and over 600 bogus/orphan Registry files. My first move was to install and run CCleaner. Recently, a friend came over with her 6 year-old HP laptop that needed almost 6 minutes to boot up and be ready to use. Have never had that happen with CCleaner. More aggressive/more thorough registry cleaners always seem to cause an unexpected glitch later on with some program or Windows function. Those are the 3 most common things that are needed on a PC or laptop that is a few years old and has slowed down noticeably. Have lost count of how many friends have said “Wow!” after I ran CCleaner plus defrag plus limit the startup programs. Easy to use, safe, and the results are always worthwhile. It’s probably the best single cleanup/tuneup tool I’ve ever come across. Especially when I use CCleaner and the CCleaner Registry Cleaner before doing the defragmentation. That said, I do find that some disk space is saved in both the physical hard drive and in System Image Backup Archives, when I use Auslogics before backing up. Older, slower single-core PCs may experience benefits when defragmented regularly. Otherwise, little benefit seems to result, even with Smart Placement. Then defragmentation, disk cleanups and Registry cleanups may be useful. The one exception may be if you update programs frequently, or if you are trying out new programs and discard them frequently. But, hey, those drives are now for storing data not for running Windows so the absolute speed is not an issue and there’s not much defragging needed, anyway!Īs has been noted many times in Windows Secrets columns, modern dual-core or better computers will not usually notice much improvement with disk defragmentation. transfer speed but we’re running Win 7 which definitely handles defragging very well on its own. so even if Auslogics made things load a little faster would you even notice? Nowadays our “regular” hard drives achieve 96MB/sec. ![]() ![]() The old hard drives we were defragging back then probably had transfer speeds of between 40MB/sec. ![]() I seem to recall that Auslogics defrag completed faster, and didn’t they claim to move frequently used programs to the beginning/outer edge of hard drive disk for faster loading as well as make files more contiguous? If so, we saw no big improvement, just a faster defrag process. We used Auslogics defrag on a couple of our XP computers and it worked OK, but we could tell no significant difference in bootup time or program loading compared to using Windows XP’s own defrag feature.
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