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<title><![CDATA[By: liberty reserve]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119716</link>
<description><![CDATA[An riveting language is worth remark. I think that you should write solon on this issue, it strength not be a sacred case but mostly grouping are not sufficiency to verbalise on such topics. To the next. Cheers like your Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily  &#8211;  Advanced Defrag.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:17:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Advanced Defrag]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119714</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,

We are Advanced Defrag development team. We are very pleased to announce that Traciatim is the winner of our 1-year subscription to the full version of Recoveryer 2010 Ultimate Grant! A big round of applause goes to everyone who participated, for showing us just how much you care. It does not matter whether your idea is positive or negative, we are always open for suggestions that help us improve our service. Thank you!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:31:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: joe]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119713</link>
<description><![CDATA[KUDOS fubar,

Your reviews and technical knowledge are the only thing I trust here.
I share you view of Assraf. It is exactly correct. I don't know why so many believe the uninformed words he utters here.

You actually know what you are talking about. That is what I trust. Hope you keep up the good work here.
Thank you.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:06:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119712</link>
<description><![CDATA[#22, Paul, #29, Giovanni, #54, Taz, #55, Julian--first off, I get really irritated when someone incorrectly implies that an offering is malicious, as uninformed people get nervous, and it completely kills the offering for no reason.  It's particularly bad today, because people actually believe Ashraf, not realizing that he's just a student who started with a political blog and saw GOTD as an opportunity to generate income from ads on his site.  As far as I'm concerned, he has neither the knowledge nor logic skills to be a good reviewer.  Respect has to be earned.  I respect mike, even though I think half of what he posts is wrong, because he does have knowledge and logic skills.  As for site checking, I haven't tried the mentioned FF add-on.  I use TrendProtect, along with manual checking via the usual sources, such as DomainTools, robtex, SiteAdvisor (ignoring the crap), Google Safe Browsing, etc.  I couldn't care less what WoT says, I don't find it to be reliable or useful.

As for free defragmenters, I don't use them.  Testing defragmenters is complex and dangerous, and you have to trace the install and uninstall (testing only one at a time) to make sure that they restore the Windows defragmenter correctly.  People underestimate the risks of defragmenters.  They can move and rearrange all of your files and critical file tables, and can completely destroy your OS and data.  Even mike noted problems with some defragmenters, which is why I only trust the "big-name" commercial ones, and even some of those are crap.

As for UltimateDefrag and Auslogics Defrag, I haven't heard anything bad about them.  Neither is VSS-compatible (last I checked), and UltimateDefrag was stuck at version 2008 forever (they finally got a newer version out).  Free defragmenters aren't going to be Microsoft-Certified.

#20, Bobby, setting a Restore Point prior to installing and testing a defragmenter is useless.  Most aren't VSS compatible, and will instantly wipe your Restore Points.  Even a VSS-compatible one is unlikely to be able to maintain Restore Points upon first use, only upon regular use, if you're lucky.

#57, k, if you aren't going to use a pagefile defragmenter, then you can place the pagefile on a separate partition and it should remain defragmented if it's fixed-size and was created contiguously.  Yes, the beginning of the disk is fastest and would be recommended, especially if you have limited RAM, as you say.

#45,46, mike, I'm sorry but most of what you say about page and system files is wrong.  My computers are extremely busy, moving hundreds of gigabytes per day, disks filling up, mixed large and small files, etc.  If you wind up with tens, hundreds, thousands, or maybe even tens of thousands of fragments, you might not notice much slowdown.  When you get into hundreds of thousands of fragments on frequently-used files, your computer will crawl (very slowly).  You posted too much for me to respond to.  There's never a guarantee that a newly-created pagefile will be contiguous.  Windows always uses the pagefile, no matter how much RAM you have.  Even at small companies, new people often don't know how things have been done.  At a huge corporation like Microsoft, nobody knows anything.  Even the Sysinternals guys got some pagefile issues wrong.  Microsoft's handling of them is complex, and much of the documentation is wrong.  See my comment #15 for recommended practice.  I've repeatedly experienced pagefile fragmentation killing performance on multiple computers.  A defragmented fixed-size pagefile won't remain so under all circumstances (such as after a crash).  Pagefiles don't fragment internally, and don't grow and shrink internally.  Recommended pagefile sizes are all wrong (at least the Sysinternals guys addressed that somewhat).]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:23:17 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Uncle Monster]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119711</link>
<description><![CDATA[I have found that WOT will flag a site if it's politically incorrect
so I always take it's warnings with a grain of salt. It reminds me of
a dog that barks at anything and everything but you have to go look
before you yell at it to shut up.

[8~{} Uncle Monster]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:25:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Steve]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119710</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is my own personal opinion, and nothing more.  I think that any application that can directly manipulate sectors on a drive and has the potential to launch itself as a low-level driver should be used with extreme caution.  I own and am very happy with PerfectDisk.  A system tool like this should be thoroughly researched and compared to other similar apps.  Caveat Emptor when using anything that can potentially demolish your drive, especially given the fact that its developers have an apparent sinister relationship with scum-ware.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:37:31 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Advanced Defrag]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119709</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi everyone,

We are the developers of Advanced Defrag. We are sorry that Advanced Defrag has poor reputation on WOT and SiteAdvisor. This may be caused by our competitors' attacks. We will contact WOT and SiteAdvisor and try our best to turn these sites green. But we cannot guarantee response from them. 

But we can guarantee that Advanced Defrag is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including but not limited to: spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors.

Thank you for your feedback. We are always open for suggestions that help us improve our service to you. Hope you all enjoy our product.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:19:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: goodgotd]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119708</link>
<description><![CDATA[nothing screamed when I went to the site to find the version number, but I can't see downloading and installing yet another defrag multitool. 

I'll stick with MyDefrag for the drives, and take care of the rest with other well proven freeware.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:18:33 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: nogard0]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119707</link>
<description><![CDATA[select volume doesnt work quite right. if yoyu click on c then d then click off d .... it should show c's file space but it shows d's.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:16:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: rodken]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/advanced-defrag/#comment-119706</link>
<description><![CDATA[@Taz, 
At least FUBAR commented on the SW. 
I won't try this because it doesn’t say whether it uses the Windows Defrag API.
And WOT and SiteAdvisor almost seem to do as much harm as good. Don't believe me? surf around and spread some rumors, check on those sites in months or maybe even years, then see if you trust them.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:41:52 -0400</pubDate>
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