so the defragger that i got is a 'lite' version, thus i can't schedule a defrag time or get it to run on startup; everything has to be done manually. What i need is a good defragger that's free, and has all of the basic options.

what OS are you running? i mean, why not use the window's one.

im running xp, but the one that came with it was "Diskeeper Lite".....the windows one is nowhere to be found.

huh, is it only included with XP Pro?

yeah, the one that comes with windows is fine. you might want to look around a little more. in earlier versions of windows you could right click the c:\ drive in the my computer window and it would give you some maintenaince options. i dont know about xp, but you might want to at least give it a go.

nah, I'm on XP Home and I've got it

aren't you in New Zealand or Australia?...does MS ship different versions of their OS to different countries?...that's the only reason I can think of

have you checked Control Panel>Performance and Maintenance?

when i do that, the 'official' maintenance option is Diskeeper Lite. That's why i'm looking for a new, free defragger....

well, i dont think youll find a lot for free. i just did a quick search and didnt find any for free. of course, if you wanted to pirate, it would be a different matter entirely.........

But i don't wanna be a pirate!

sorry, i aint got nothin for ya then.

okay, i'm ready, parrot and all......pirate me up!

all right, now we're talking. for this, youll need bittorrent. you can use the official client, but there are better ones out there. since i moved over to mac, ive started using azureus. it works well and its fairly simple. back when i was using windows, i used bittornado, and thats what i would recommend for you. there are other ones around, but this should be enough to get you started. next, go to novatina. from there you can search for all kinds of stuff, but perfectdisk seems like a good program, so search for that. i just checked and there is a copy of perfectdisk 7 available, so download the torrent file. its just a small file. next, open whatever bittorrent client you downloaded, and open the torrent file you downloaded. let it do its business, and voila, thats it!

cheers

okay, so it keeps saying "operation timed out" or something to that effect everytime i try to download a torrent file...

hmm, it probably isnt working anymore because it lists the torrents from a huge site that was taken down a little while ago. ill look around some torrents sites a know for you and see if i can find another one.

ahh, here we go. go here and download a new torrent file. if it doesnt work, go here. if neither of them work, let me know and ill look around some more.

thanks for taking the time to help an old buccaneer...

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