Yep, Vista will auto defrag when your computer idle. But for my case, if I am not using the computer, I will shut it down, or do light torrent. So, Vista virtually has no chance to defrag my hard disk.

I test JK Defrag, Auslogic, Perfect Disk, Diskeeper and Ultimate Defrag. My laptop (using vistax64 where I want VSS to turn ON), I use Diskeeper 2008. However, my gaming rig, I settle with Ultimate Defrag because it allow me to determine which folder I want to locate it at the outer ring (speedier).

So, I set my game folder to be defrag and located at outer ring, while archive file such as mp3, wallpaper etc at inner side.

Since I have 2 hdd, my gaming files is set at second hdd outer ring of second hdd and my windows file is set at outer ring of my first hdd. Work wonder for me...faster boot, and faster gaming (loading) time.

Your mileage may vary.

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Added on November 28, 2008, 12:57 amOh, forgot to mention...not all defragger could handle VSS pretty well. AFAIK, PerfectDisk 2008 and Diskeeper 2008 got VSS special defragmentation algorithm. Due to Ultimate Defrag doesn't has this feature, I turn off VSS (system restore) on my C drive.

This post has been edited by expertester: Nov 28 2008, 12:57 AM