User talk:DonnEdwards

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Defrag article: I am working on a defrag article that lists all the known defrag utilities, and provides a summary of each one. Clearly a list by itself is no good, so it needs a lot more work.

Here is the draft. Comment on it, edit it, but don't delete it without good reason. That goes for you too, SQL^{(Query Me!)}

Windows Defrag Utilities

I will probably expand this to a full article at some point, but since it is such a mission to get through all the AfD red tape I'm inclined to wait. The updated this can be found on The Great Defrag Shootout, and includes a partial review of Defraggler from Pirisoft.

Commercial (Windows)

Abexo Defragmenter Pro Plus [1] $34.95^[1]

Ashampoo Magical Defrag [2]
Buzzsaw (on the fly defragmenter) and DIRMS (removes tiny spaces) [3]
DefragMentor Premium [4]
Defrag-A-File [5]
DefragMentor Outlook Accelerator 2.0 [6]
DefragMentor Premium [7]
Defrag Timer 1.1 [8]
Diskeeper [9]
hsDefragSaver [10]
Mindsoft Defrag [11]
mst Defrag [12]
O&O Defrag [13]
Paragon Total Defrag 2007 [14]
PC Mesh Defrag for Windows 4.0 [15]
Power Defrag [16]
PerfectDisk [17]
PerfectDisk Rx Suite [18]
Puran Defrag 2.0 [19]
Rapid File Defragmentor [20]
UltimateDefrag [21]
Vopt [22]
Winternals Defrag Manager 4.0 no longer sold

Freeware (Windows)

Auslogics Disk Defrag: A free defragmentation program for NTFS.[23]

Contig: A command-line based defragmentation utility.[24]

Defraggler: still in beta, from Piriform the authors of CCleaner.[25]

DefragMentor Lite CL: a command line utility.[26]
IOBit SmartDefrag [27] (Beta software)
JkDefrag: A free (GPLed) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.[28]
Microsoft's Windows Disk Defragmenter (already included in most versions of Windows)
PageDefrag: Runs at startup and attempts to defragment system files that cannot be defragmented while they are in use.[29]
Power Defragmenter GUI [30]
Rapid File Defragmentor Lite: command line utility.[31]
SpeeDefrag [32]
SpeedItUp FREE [33]
Puran Defrag 1.1 [34] no longer available: see 2.0 above.
SpeeDefrag [35]
SpeedItUp FREE [36]
UltraDefrag [37]
UnityPro Disk Idle Optimiser [38]
WinContig [39]
Windows PowerTools 1.3 [40]
Wise Disk Cleaner: built-in disk defrag function version later than 7.53[41]

Sources

Edwards, Donn (2007) "The Great Defrag Shootout" - articles published on "Insights and Rants" blog ("TGDS")

Notes

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the 8th Habit required

dear concerned!

i need to have this book on really urgent basis. as i live in Pakistan (Lahore), i couldn't find it anywhere, so i wanted to download it. please help.

Adnan Khalid (d4dani007@hotmail.com) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adnan924 (talk • contribs) 08:07, 1 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Photo Upload

Hi Donn, I just finished my first article last week and I'm working on my second article this week, I'm enjoying this as a new hobby/pasttime. Both of my article's are on self-help books, I stumbled into the first one, not sure why but thats where I got my feet wet. I noticed you had uplaoded a photo for a self-help book and I am wondering if someone like me with only a few weeks experience should attempt to even consider trying the effort to upload book covers for the two articles? Seems like a lot to learn but then I do need to learn everything I can around here to get better. I haven't looked into any of the guidelines or know the first thing about it, but if you say it's not to overly complicated I'll make an attempt. Just looking for insight. Tinkermen (talk) 16:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Actualy here's one of the photo's I'd like to uplaod; [42]Tinkermen (talk) 16:47, 8 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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