Originally Posted by
Yakitori
Thanks for posting this PTravel. I have just downloaded Auslogic's defrag program and despite my hard drive having recently been defragged by the built-in program, it was found to be still quite badly fragmented.
This program also appears to be much faster than Microsoft's built-in defrag program and does not appear to affect the speed of other programs running of the computer as much while it is running.
I'm about to run their registry defragger - keeping my fingers crossed that it won't mess anything up!
I'd be careful of registry defraggers. In theory, there is no need to either clean or defrag the registry. I use the Glary Utilities registry cleaner when I've had to manually remove programs because their uninstall features failed -- I don't like having empty or incorrectly-defined keys lying around and the Glary product removes them. A standard file defragger should treat the registry as a file and make sure all segments are contiguous. I think the value in defragging the registry internally, i.e. changing the sequence of keys, is questionable at best.