Want a FAST PC ?? .....do this!!!!!!!!!!

[mtsproductions]

I am not trying to sell this stuff.

Auslogics rocks BootSpeed and Disk Defrag, I was getting ready to reboot my pc, i ran the bootspeed first, and then left the disk defrag on overnight for my 4 drives..
Wow what a difference, its like a clean OS install, all of my patches from a variety of instruments like NI Acoustic Pianos load almost instantly, before it would take 15-20 sec to load.

Highly recommend it !!

[4.33]

thanks for the heads up

[TimOBrien]

You don't need to sell Auslogic's defrag; it's FREE for home users.

And yes it's much much much better than Windows defrag....

[shemp]

Defrag makes that big a difference in speed???

[EvilDragon]

Depends on where your samples are located, yeah, and also depends on how much the files are scattered across the hard drive platter in pieces. But yeah, usually 10-15% speedup.


How does their defragger compare to UltimateDefrag?

[gofer]

I find Reaper especially benefits a lot from a freshly defragmented system drive for some unknown reason

[zappa]

It also depends how fragmented the drive is to begin with.

[maximilians]

thanks for the tip going to try it out tonight . windows 7 sometimes boots into checkdisk but never finds any errors maybe this will sort it out could be a bad drive though its only a couple months old.

[Kihoalu]

Originally Posted by zappa

It also depends how fragmented the drive is to begin with.

If it was as fragmented as my brain then...

...wait! what was I just talking about??

.

[toyhouse]

The biggest speed boost I got recently was doing a reg clean.
I'm embarrassed to say how long the machine went without one or how many broken pieces the utility found. whew....
Made a BIG difference.
That said...
I just downloaded this util and plan to defrag on samples drive today.

Thanks for mentioning.


Jim P.





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[mtsproductions]

Originally Posted by mtsproductions

I am not trying to sell this stuff

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[mtsproductions]

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

How does their defragger compare to UltimateDefrag?

Never used it but it looks like auslogics is just alot simpler UltimateDefrag is for advanced users isnt it.. Oh and its free

[Simple Simon]

Originally Posted by toyhouse

The biggest speed boost I got recently was doing a reg clean..

Any recommendations for good, safe, reliable reg cleaners?

[Sound asleep]

why would one defrag utility be superior to another?

[lofreequency]

Originally Posted by Simple Simon

Any recommendations for good, safe, reliable reg cleaners?

Trusted all-in-one system cleaner including registry. (Of course back up the registry before you run any registry cleaner...backup prompt is included right in their interface)

http://www.ccleaner.com/

Reviews and awards:

http://www.ccleaner.com/reviews

[EvilDragon]

Originally Posted by Sound asleep

why would one defrag utility be superior to another?

Features.

For example, in UltimateDefrag I can decide where will each file be located on the drive after defrag. Then I move all my samples on the beginning (outer rim) of the drive platter, so their loading is faster. Etc.

[mtsproductions]

Originally Posted by Simple Simon

Any recommendations for good, safe, reliable reg cleaners?

Auslogics Bootspeed

[mtsproductions]

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Features.

For example, in UltimateDefrag I can decide where will each file be located on the drive after defrag. Then I move all my samples on the beginning (outer rim) of the drive platter, so their loading is faster. Etc.

Thats if you have a partitioned drive, if you have a drive with just samples, there is no need for that!

[fogpeople]

Disk Defrag is my defragmentation tool of choice. Free, fast, and good. Yum!

[Quasar]

Originally Posted by Sound asleep

why would one defrag utility be superior to another?

This is my question too. What would be better about it?

[RunBeerRun]

Isn't it called BoostSpeed? If you want a good free defragger that you can tell the difference in file access time, get IoBit Smart Defrag. Quickest one, and it has an optimize feature.

[mtsproductions]

Originally Posted by RunBeerRun

Isn't it called BoostSpeed? If you want a good free defragger that you can tell the difference in file access time, get IoBit Smart Defrag. Quickest one, and it has an optimize feature.

yes it is sorry BoostSpeed

[EvilDragon]

Originally Posted by mtsproductions

Thats if you have a partitioned drive, if you have a drive with just samples, there is no need for that!

Depends. If I want SOME libraries (bigger ones, for example) to load faster, I'd still want them on the beginning of the hard drive platter, be it a partitioned drive or not.

[toyhouse]

Originally Posted by Simple Simon

Any recommendations for good, safe, reliable reg cleaners?

I use this one;
http://download.cnet.com/Free-Window...-10606555.html
The other one mentioned is a good one too.
I suppose they all do similar?
I like this one because it's simple and fast. A very small util with one purpose.


I can never seem to delete the last 20 or so things it finds but whatever,.... still makes a big difference.
Especially if there's a thousand, (or more) broken pieces of code it finds. Won't say who's, lol.


Jim P.





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[Sheppola]

I've been running Auslogics defrag for around 7 years.I post quite often that anyone recording or manipulating large files should keep their drives well defragged.The percentage of fragmentation has no bearing on sound file recording.As soon as you record windows places the data wherever it can which causes the heads to work harder and can cause sound glitches.
I do my drives after a few hours work and on a regular basis or at the end of a session.Defragging does NOT reduce the life of drives.My old 40 gig main drive is over 5 years old and has been defragged several times a week in that time.It has also only ever been formatted twice.This is another myth about windows that re-formatting to re-install windows is required to give a good install.

I can also mirror re-install my full working O/S in less than 10 mins from hard drive back up or USB flash disk,

More info here.

http://forum.cockos.com/showthread.p...ghlight=maxtor


I also run CCleaner/Registry cleaner and Regseeker,

http://regseeker.en.softonic.com/

Avira Anti-virus/Ashampoo Firewall and Spyware Terminator.I can have all these running and still record with my old AMD 3800 1 gig of ram.

As a long time online gamer I search out free small footprint reliable software and dump any that become bloated like AVG/Zone Alarm and you couldn't pay me enough to have any Norton's software on my systems.

[frankielouis]

This is a general follow up question. When defraging drives. I read somewhere(probably when I was using Pro Tools) that one should refrain from defraging the drive where projects(ie. audio files, midi files, etc those files which are used in a particular song project) were stored. I keep REAPER projects on a separate drive and generally leave it alone(not gonna defrag it). What you you think?
frankielouis

[EvilDragon]

Nonsense. Just freely defrag your projects drive, files will be intact.

[Tallisman]

I am very curious as to how these reg cleaners and defrags are working in Windows 7

and also wondering if the 64bit OS has any bearing on those results.

greetings
.t

[Sound asleep]

Originally Posted by EvilDragon

Features.

For example, in UltimateDefrag I can decide where will each file be located on the drive after defrag. Then I move all my samples on the beginning (outer rim) of the drive platter, so their loading is faster. Etc.

well that does sound like a useful feature, but i'm not sure really how much extra performance you'd get from that versus a regular defrag. although optimizing the weakest link of your speed chain, is not a bad idea. could put your most used samples on the outer edge too, or your VSTs that read directly from HD on outer edge, and others that load into ram further in.

maybe i'll look into such a thing on my next defrag. or rather when i make the switch to windows 7 64 bit.

[EvilDragon]

You get a lot better read speed, which is up to 30% higher on the outer rim of the platter than closer to the center. You do the math.


Of course, none of this matters if you have an SSD.