Update:
I have been using the diskeeper lite mentoned above and am very happy with it. I would re-recommend this to anyone looking for a decent defragger.

Thanks to all who pointed me at it. :)

Lee, Wolven

TY for the diskeeper 2007 pro premier link... just ran the free trial and it's great! Much better than Windows defrag... (which I just ran a few days ago - in fact I ran it 3 times consecutively and all tolled it barely made a difference)

Has anybody used Contig? You can find it here.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/contig.mspx

ciao

Thanks, I'll have a look at all the suggestions.
Meanwhile, I can live in hope that we'll get one offered here.

Thanks.

These 3 are rated by Tech Support Alert as the best freeware defraggers.

[1] http://www.majorgeeks.com/Diskeeper_Lite_d1207.html Freeware, all Windows versions,12.1MB
[2] http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php Freeware, all Windows versions, 1.4MB
[3] http://www.iobit.com/SmartDefrag/index.html Freeware, all Windows versions, 4.3MB

Check out this article and free SysInternals tool also.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/PageDefrag.mspx

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If all else fails...

Diskeeper 2007 has a 30 day trial - That gives you a month
to Google through the freeware and find what you want.
http://www.diskeeper.com/diskeeper/home/diskeeper.asp

Cheers.

I use Auslogics Disk defrag program, which is freeware and seems to work pretty well. It doesn't do the defrag automatically, but it is pretty fast. I hated waiting for the Windows defrag program to finish, that's for sure.

http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/index.php

Anyone know of a GOOD free one. I resent paying for stuff that M$ supposedly already does - and that we paid for with the OS. ;)

I use O&O Defrag Pro, another good defragger, US$49.95.

http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/products/oodefrag/

I would love to see PerfectDisk 8 Professional offered.

In my opinion it performs better (and faster) than any other Windows defragmenter software.

Download comparisons, whitepapers, and a 30 day free trial.
http://raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/index_consumer.cfm

I used to use Executive Softwares Diskeeper back on WinNT 3.51 & then WinNT 4.0 - But changed to PerfectDisk back when version 6 was released - this explains some of the reasons why...

Unique Differences Between PerfectDisk V8 and Diskeeper 2007

Diskeeper ProPremier v11.0.698.0 is what I use, windows defragment utility is mustard also.

I have used Diskeeper since version 5, only others I have tried are windows and Nortons version on system works.

It would be nice that when Diskeeper 12 comes around that yes GAOTD could give away the ProPremier version.

I doubt it though.

I would like to see a defragmenter offered that runs automatically like the Ashampoo Magical Defrag program. Windows takes forever to finish, plus you have to stop everything you are doing first.
I've tried a couple of free ones but they didn't seem to work very well. I tried the Ashampoo one and it was pretty good.
Ashampoo may be a good option because they do give away quite a lot of stuff.

So hows about it GAOTD