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Originally Posted by cgarr
Any good free defrag programs out there? I had the trial diskeeper which seemed to work well but it quit after 30 days unless buy it? I guess is there a good one even if I have to purchase it?
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XP and above comes with a bundled one that's probably "good enough", and any OS built on a modern filesystem (one designed since the 70's, say) typically doesn't need to be defragged.
I suggest you find a registry compacter/defragger as well - I like "CCleaner" (used to be Crap Cleaner), which will also clean up dead/bad registry keys and badly de-installed software from brain-dead installers, as well as bin temporary files and adware cookies for you.
If you run Sysinternal's Process Monitor (Microsoft bought them for that and Process Explorer), you'd be astonished how dumb some of the programs are that read the same registry key 17 times a second - and you wondered why your computer was slow...