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Power Defragmenter 3.0 released!

Monday, September 1, 2008 10:39:29 PM

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This is my quite well known defragmenter based on Microsoft/Sysinternals Contig core.
They provide the core component, the heart of defragmentation process, i've provided the user interface for it. And so far users just love it. It's not perfect but it's close.
Also a winner of 4 stars at SoftPedia.
Now enough of the bable talk and self compliments hehe bigsmile

Power Defragmenter 3.0 screenshot

Whats new in version 3.0?
- Simplified Contig download and setup (now almost fully automatic)
- Removed PowerMode(TM) because of compatibility problems with Windows Vista
- Introduced TriplePass(TM) mode replacing obsolete PowerMode(TM)*
- Added ability to defragment removable drives (mostly floppy and USB hard drives**)
- Fixed few glitches
- New Vista style graphics

* TripleMode(TM) runs Contig in 3 passes defragmenting any remaining fragmented files
** don't use on USB flash and SSD drives as they are basically immune to the file fragmentation due to almost non existent access latency. Defragmenting flash devices also decreases their lifetime.

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Comments

Unregistered user Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:40:47 AM

majoMo writes: I can't open the .zip file... WinRar/7-Zip say it's corrupted. Can you test it? Thanks.

RejZoRrejzor Tuesday, September 2, 2008 6:00:25 AM

ZIP archive has no errors when extracting. It seems it got corrupted during download. Try re-downloading it (and clear browser cache before doing this).

Unregistered user Tuesday, September 2, 2008 12:07:33 PM

majoMo writes: Download it now. All is ok. Thanks.

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 3, 2008 3:30:48 AM

Wyrmrider writes: Hi W95-98 ME support? how does it compare with Speeddisk for W98-ME thanks Wyrmrider

RejZoRrejzor Wednesday, September 3, 2008 7:58:54 AM

Unfortunately, no. Only Windows NT systems are supported.
This is a limitation of Contig, not my GUI.
So it will work on starting with Windows NT 4.0 and greater.
For Win9x systems i recommend using Diskeeper 7 Lite.
It used to be the fastest free defragmenter at that time.

Unregistered user Wednesday, September 3, 2008 5:42:43 PM

wyrmrider writes: Thanks I'll check it out however been using Speedisk since dos days so... at the time it was better than MS program I could move my files and folders to the front etc and move little used files to the end since NT everyone has essentially used the same engine as far as I can tell I do have several W2K systems and will give your system a shot thanks for the info on Diskeeper 7 lite in the security code is that a 0 or an O :) better put my glasses on

Unregistered user Saturday, September 6, 2008 9:26:28 AM

s|b writes: Thanks! Great program.

Unregistered user Monday, September 8, 2008 7:19:04 AM

Anonymous writes: thanks for this

Unregistered user Thursday, September 11, 2008 11:24:04 PM

Anonymous writes: I have Contig installed, but your installation program does not recognize that it is. Where does it expect it to be ??

RejZoRrejzor Friday, September 12, 2008 7:22:04 PM

Power Defragmenter downloads the file by itself. Otherwise contig.exe has to be in the same folder as power defragmenter.

Dannydannyjr Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:42:57 AM

Thanks for the update! I didn't know Powermode is incompatible with Vista, I've been using it regularly in my Vista machines. Cheers!

Unregistered user Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:05:08 AM

kellyjones34@yahoo.com writes: Windows defrag has an analyze mode which then gives you a list of files which are fragmented. Or it also gives you a list of files it couldn't defrag after running defrag. Wouldn't it be faster to run defrag, obtain this list and then pipe this through Power Defragmenter rather than running it against the entire drive? Even if that doesn't make sense... The interface gives me the ability to defrag single files or directories. Why not a file list? Just a thought.

Unregistered user Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:14:30 AM

Anonymous writes: Hello Support Vista 64 ????

RejZoRrejzor Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:22:00 AM

Yes, Vista 64bit is supported.

Unregistered user Sunday, September 14, 2008 6:19:58 PM

Anonymous writes: Are you sure that Vista 64 is supported ???

RejZoRrejzor Monday, September 15, 2008 10:18:11 AM

I'm using Vista x64 as my primary and only OS. So yeah, i'm 120% positive.

Unregistered user Friday, September 19, 2008 6:22:25 AM

mickey writes: I originally ran , I think 2.0.125 PowDefrag, which gave results after finishing in DOS Prompt window. Am I doing something wrong, or is this feature na in 3.0? Thanks, Mick I`ve looked, and Power Defrag is the ONLY worthwhile defragmenter for Vista!

Unregistered user Friday, October 3, 2008 4:30:55 PM

Charles Langer writes: Any speed comparison between Power Defragmenter and Defraggler?

Unregistered user Sunday, October 5, 2008 7:52:03 PM

Anonymous writes: I'm using this tool for a long time now. I know it's not your core, but even though you only made the GUI I'm thankful to you for introducing me with the best defragmenter tool!

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 8, 2008 4:11:56 PM

TravisO writes: Thanks for keeping the GUI up to date, a great little app and a must have for contig fans! I've been using it for years, and will continue to do so years from now.

Unregistered user Saturday, October 11, 2008 4:20:23 AM

Anonymous writes: good

Pfeleleppfelelep Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:55:39 PM

oh my god YOU are the author of Power Defragmenter???
i've been using it for a while, thanks so much!

Unregistered user Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:26:42 AM

Anonymous writes: This is the fastest defrag I have used and seems solid. Many thanks to the author and to those who maintain contig ;)

OperaIsGreat Wednesday, October 15, 2008 9:03:37 PM

oh my god YOU are the author of Power Defragmenter???
i've been using it for a while, thanks so much!


Seems to be true... bigsmile

Thanks for your work!

Unregistered user Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:40:31 PM

Hellenic Force writes: Great Tool! Better than jkDefrag!

Unregistered user Friday, October 31, 2008 8:49:30 PM

Will writes: How can I schedule this to come on and run on a schedule like windows default program. It runs but comes up needing additional info ( "Next", "which drive?"). I just want it to go directly to defragging the C: drive, that is all.

Unregistered user Saturday, November 1, 2008 5:50:57 PM

Anonymous writes: I downloaded the file and uncompressed it in a folder. I put Contig.exe in the same folder and then I run it. But every time I run the GUI, it creates a folders in C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local setting\Temp\~setuptmp<number>, with increasing number <number>. I cannot remove those folders. How can I solve this? Thanks!

RejZoRrejzor Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:56:58 PM

Thats by design unfortunatelly and cannot be removed.
However those folders can be easily deleted when Power Defragmenter is not running.

Unregistered user Tuesday, November 4, 2008 9:25:13 PM

bz writes: can you add option to specify exclude folder/files

Unregistered user Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:12:44 PM

Moumoudiouf writes: Power Defragmenter does it use the same method that the defragmentation utility in Windows Vista? Can I use both without them negate their effects?

RejZoRrejzor Friday, November 14, 2008 8:16:04 AM

I don't think they use same defrag engines though it's possible since Sysinternals are now part of Microsoft.
There should also be no negative effects as far as i can tell.

Unregistered user Monday, November 24, 2008 9:54:36 PM

Anonymouse writes: rejzor, first of all, thanks for your great work!!!! I don't use any other defragmenting tools since PD ver 2* + Contig. It will be great if you can recommend us any Scandisk Tool that can replace the Windows built-in version. TQ.

RejZoRrejzor Tuesday, November 25, 2008 1:25:07 AM

I see no reason to use anything else really. The Windows one works great.
There is one tool named PC Health Optimizer (http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pchealthfree.html) but i think it's pretty much the same thing as Windows one just with nice GUI. If it finds errors it runs usual CHKDSK anyway.

Unregistered user Friday, January 2, 2009 5:40:14 AM

RJ writes: Is there a command line verson of this tool for use? I would like to automate my defrags. Thanks

Unregistered user Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:59:45 PM

hitman36 writes: Hi Rejzor, I received this error when start to defrag: Problem signature: Problem Event Name:BEX Application Name:Contig.exe Application Version:1.55.0.0 Application Timestamp:48e2df1a Fault Module Name:Contig.exe Fault Module Version:1.55.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp:48e2df1a Exception Offset:00002f63 Exception Code:c0000409 Exception Data:00000000 OS Version:6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.6 Locale ID:1057 Additional Information 1:7915 Additional Information 2:c2785c6cf744687122d869ff39850a96 Additional Information 3:4997 Additional Information 4:4116b95f22ee95b7e30eb8f9d0b28dc2 Read our privacy statement: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=50163&clcid=0x0409 Any ideas why?

Unregistered user Saturday, January 17, 2009 6:00:12 AM

Anonymous writes: I have run contig.exe with Power Defragmenter 3 and it does not defragment my harddrive. It runs for about 10 minutes and stops saying it is complete. I run analyze with windows and diskeeper and both say my drive is still extremely defragmented. I never had a problem with 2.0. I think there is something wrong with this program. Does anyone have any ideas?

Unregistered user Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:54:04 AM

Anonymous writes: hi this program has been running for four hours now defragging 200gb is this normal

Unregistered user Friday, January 30, 2009 2:34:04 AM

Return To Future writes: Would someone please email me an older version of contig.exe or contig.zip which works on Windows NT 4.0... Thank you NT-forever@34.ca

Unregistered user Wednesday, February 11, 2009 3:15:00 AM

Avery writes: Can you stop the defrag process midway? I've been going for two days now, and its less than halfway done from my estimates

RejZoRrejzor Wednesday, February 11, 2009 6:55:55 AM

Just close the console window.

Unregistered user Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:00:58 PM

Anonymous writes: It is a great program, way faster than built-in windows defrag. I am currently using it on my vista-64. The only problem I have is everytime I close the powerdefrag, the program compatibility assistant pops up. Does anyone know why?

RejZoRrejzor Thursday, February 12, 2009 6:47:58 PM

Thats a stupid Vista feature. Just find out its service and disable it.

StePe47 Sunday, April 19, 2009 9:09:51 AM

Upon cleaning the disk with CCleaner and cleaning the register, I restarted the PC (XP SP2 system) and launched PowerDefragmenter - it's probably doing a fine work though I cannot tell since it's just an endlessly scrolling DOS window, but for sure it takes ages to complete and the disk is only 180GB total, of which more than 30GB are free. Too slow.knockout

RejZoRrejzor Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:03:36 AM

Or maybe your disk is just too fragmented even if it's just 180GB...

Unregistered user Saturday, June 6, 2009 2:40:12 PM

Anonymous writes: Power Defragmenter 3.0 runs on two seperate Vista Business machines then stops with the following error: Problem Event Name:BEX Application Name:Contig.exe Application Version:1.55.0.0 Application Timestamp:48e2df1a Fault Module Name:Contig.exe Fault Module Version:1.55.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp:48e2df1a Exception Offset:00002f63 Exception Code:c0000409 Exception Data:00000000 OS Version:6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6 Locale ID:2057 Additional Information 1:7915 Additional Information 2:c2785c6cf744687122d869ff39850a96 Additional Information 3:4997 Additional Information 4:4116b95f22ee95b7e30eb8f9d0b28dc2 Read our privacy statement: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=50163&clcid=0x0409 Any way to correct this!

RejZoRrejzor Saturday, June 6, 2009 3:40:04 PM

Contact ex Sysinternals guys (now Microsoft). They are the makers of Contig. I just made the GUI.

Unregistered user Monday, August 3, 2009 2:41:30 PM

Anonymous writes: ok, I had a huge mess on my wifes computer with about 90% of the drive being fraged files... I downloaed the power defragmenter and had no problems opening or gewtting it to run... However, it has been running for about 15 hours now and is still going... I can not believe this is right, is it? Please help in anyway... Should I just let it keep running or stop it or ??? Thanks in advance (and more thanks after for any and all help!)

RejZoRrejzor Monday, August 3, 2009 6:30:08 PM

You can interrupt it whenever you want without worrying about data loss. Depending on the drive size, perforemance, number and size of the files and overall fragmentation it can take ages to defragment for the first time. It will go faster later.
Defragmentation is also significantly slowed down when there is not much free space left (especially for huge files). There are also problems with crappy antiviruses that intercept any Defrag action and scan the file that is just being processed.

Unregistered user Monday, August 3, 2009 7:52:22 PM

Anonymous writes: Thank you and I'lljust let it keep running (may be done havent been home yet) until it finishes ... do you suggest running it again after the first time? Or may be a different defrag? Thanks again!

Unregistered user Friday, August 14, 2009 2:20:13 PM

Anonymous writes: Same problem here too :( is not defragmenting. win xp pro sp3. "Anonymous # 17. January 2009, 06:00 Anonymous writes: I have run contig.exe with Power Defragmenter 3 and it does not defragment my harddrive. It runs for about 10 minutes and stops saying it is complete. I run analyze with windows and diskeeper and both say my drive is still extremely defragmented. I never had a problem with 2.0. I think there is something wrong with this program. Does anyone have any ideas?"

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