I have the usual Vista defrag tool and in addition Iolo System Mechanic Pro. Do they complement or work against each other?
Donald MacIntyre
When you use your PC, files of different sizes are downloaded and deleted all the time, and after a while, some files will be scattered all over the drive. Defragging the drive just rearranges the data so that each file's sectors are next to one another. If this is done, it's done. However, Vista's defrag tool tends to be less aggressive about completely defragging every file, and it's also very slow.
For people who care about defragging, I suggest using Auslogics Disk Defrag, which is better, faster and free. Iolo System Mechanic Pro may well do a similar job – I have not tried it – but it offers many other tune-up features as well. Either way, Vista's NTFS file system doesn't seem to benefit from defragging unless the fragmentation is really bad, so I don't think it's worth worrying about.
