Thought You Might Like To Know

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
4Ryan6

4Ryan6

Champion
Apr 14, 2002
20,603
7
52,915
For some of you that are into video encoding, and compiling or other things that require frequent defragging of your hardrive, I discovered about 8 months ago a high speed defrag program thats absolutely amazing. I've been running this program on two machines one with Win98SE, the other with Win2K, with amazing results and to date not one problem. The programs name is VoptXP, it cost around 30 dollars, but you can download and give it a try for 30 days free. I don't work for this company in any way, so I only get the satisfaction of passing on an excellent software product. This VoptXP not only is a high speed defragger, but gives direct access to system tool features like scandisk, comes with tuneup capabilities, hardrive optimizer, can do batch defrags for multiple hardrives, and some privacy features, you can also do a block by block file search on the hardrive, I used that capability once when I picked one of those self replicating programs, that Adaware couldn't seem to find, and Windows would not let me delete, but I used VoptXp, tracked it down and deleted it from my hardrive. I was going to give the program a 30 day trial 8 months ago but after I started using it, it worked so well after 10 days I went ahead and purchased the program, I can't say enough about it, but I'm going to shutup now. You can find the trial download at<A HREF="http://www.goldenbow.com" target="_new">http://www.goldenbow.com</A>, If you try it let me know what you think about it.




Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
Cool. Thanks for the link. I'll give it a try.
Have you ever used other tools like O&O defrag or Diskeeper. How does VoptXP compare to those?

<i><b>Engineering is the fine art of making what you want from things you can get</b></i>
<A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=655" target="_new">My systems</A>
 
Yeah, I am giving it a go now.
Seems quicker to initialize in comparrison to windows d'flogger and appears to be thorough in it's application.

Cool..


<A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=326" target="_new"> My networked systems</A> :smile:
 
Actually I researched the pros and cons of all the high speed defraggers I could find, and VoptXP ended up with the most favorable results for my needs. So I decided what the heck I'll give it a try, the first time you use it, it completely reorganizes your hardrive for maximum accessability, after the initial reorganization which by the way would probably have taken Windows defragger 45min to an hour or longer, then you will see some impressive defragging. I do some video compiling and after the program finishes the compiling task, for error free burn to disk its a good idea to defrag first, however Windows sometimes would take almost 2 hours to complete, VoptXP can do the same defrag in less than 15 Min. When you consider, that the Windows defrag programs a lot of us are using, have not been improved upon much at all since 95, but hardrives however have changed by leaps and bounds, you need better than the Windows defragger, and this is it. I would not reccommend this product, until I had tried it and made sure it did what it said it would, and that it would not mess up my hardrive. I have not run O&O defrag or Disckeeper on my machine so I can't give you a comparison, But VoptXP works great.

Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
one thing about computers, there is always something you have to know everyday!

lucky for us, unlucky to others.

i guess that's the price of en evergrowing technology!



"reading makes a man"
 
So how does it directly compare with O&O defrag (which is the one i use alot)

Can it defrag critical system files WITHIN windows? can it relocate the swapfile?

<b>My Idea of a DOS attack is to stop posting helpful information at Toms Hardware.</b> :smile:
 
YES, It will do those things.

I have not used O&O Defrag, so I can't make a comparison between the two, but you can since you've been using O&O, this post is basically to inform those that don't even know that theres better solutions than the Windows Defrag, not to try to get someone to switch their brand of high speed defrag program, especially since you've already spent your money on what you have. You can install and uninstall VoptXP on your system free for 30 days, with no problems, so why don't you do a test between the two, it would be interesting to learn what you find out, just a suggestion I'm not telling you what to do.





Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
I might just do that :)
I like ones that are pretty too. watching the blocks and files move around is very therapudic

<b>My Idea of a DOS attack is to stop posting helpful information at Toms Hardware.</b> :smile:
 
I noticed that the VoptXP site dosn't really show many options for optimization. Does it allow you to optimize by file type? It's a feature I got spoiled with back in the day. I noticed some do let you optimize by file, but it's alphabetical or by usage or something similar.

Jarrett
 
It will let you set a fixed swap file if you want to, then optimize it on the hardisk, but it doesn't let you optimize by individual file, however as far as usage is concerned, each time you defrag it optimizes the drive setting fast access to the programs you've been using. In some of the video encoding I have done I've watched it completely rearrange the hardrive, and optimize the drive to access the video files, and I didn't have to make it do it, it did it on its own.

Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
That's good enough for me. I was worried about the drive not being optimized for the audio files and whether it would optimize some often used ones or all of them.

Jarrett
 
I am looking for a crack to get rid of the 30 day limit

Let us know <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/community/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=25703#25703" target="_new"> What File compression format you use? </A>
 
Gave it a go...the defrag went okay, but when trying to optimize the swap file I kept getting errors and a lockup. So...I then uninstalled and had the machine lockup during that operation.

I'm running WinME...reckon I will try on of the older versions afore I give up.

....WW
 
When it optimizes the swap file it takes a long time, it shutsdown and restarts the computer three times, sometimes it appears its frozen, but its not, you can tell by your hardrives activity light, but if you attempt to stop it or interfere with it during that process, you could really screw up, let it complete everything on its own, just give it permission to do so when it asks you. One point I've discovered VoptXP is so efficient, you really don't have to optimize the swap file.




Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
Well...the drive light was not indicating any action, (and it was silent too) and the error message would not go away...in fact the mouse pointer was inoperable. Happened with both versions.

I used Enditall to shut down everything and tried it that way but got the same result. The program seems to go into lockup/error mode as soon as I click the "ok to shut down programs and optimize" button. Perhaps I should have written down the error and reported it to them...guess I still could, it's pretty easy for me to duplicate it..:)

....WW
 
I wonder if its hardware related, I've optimized a PIII with Maxtor drives and a AMD with Maxtor drives with no completion problems whatsoever. Would you mind listing your computers specs?




Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
My specs:
Mobo - Asus P4PE
CPU: INTEL P4 2.66GHz
RAM: 512Mb PC2700 DDR
VGA: LEADTEK GeForce4 Ti4400 128Mb
HDDs:
Primary IDE Channel:
C:\ Maxtor 52049H3 7200 rpm/20Gb ATA-100
D:\ WD Caviar 40Gb 7200rpm ATA-100

OS - WinME
---------------------
I think those would be the relevant parts..and the drive I was trying to optimize was the C, The Maxtor, which btw came out of my three year old Dell P3 933MHz. The D drive is only a month or two old but I did not try the program on it...as I want the swap file on the C.

It did defrag the drive okay...although I'd just done a scan and defrag, then set the swap file (with windows) on Dec 24th. And if I was reading the visual key right, it looked like my swap file was pretty well optimized already...perhaps this is what threw it into fits..he he..

Anyway it looked like it performed much faster than the default defrag with windows.

....WW
 
It gets even better, each time it defrags it relocates and reallocates space for your most used programs, then after a few times of use the defragging is quite impressive beats the heck out of Windows.




Details, Details, Its all in the Details, If you need help, Don't leave out the Details.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom