I seem to be different from most people. Or maybe I'm just less observant. Either way, I've never noticed the slightest difference after defragging a disk drive under Windows. This really bugs me - because other people always insist they saw dramatic improvements in performance...

Anyway, having nothing to do yesterday I decided it was time to defrag some drives. I opened Control Panel (after backing everything up, naturally!!!), navigated to the Disk Defragger and ran it on my E: drive.

To my utter disappointment, it stops once it reaches the stage of having no more fragmented files. It stops - even if the free space is still severely fragmented. Consequently, as soon as I start adding new files to the disk, it immediately becomes fragmented again!!

I assumed there would be an option to put all the unfragmented files at the start of the disk leaving contiguous (unfragmented) free space at the end. But there doesn't seem to be any such option.

So can anyone recommend a good (and preferably free) 3rd party defragger?