Defraggler Made My Browser Run Slower?

hello

i ran defraggler on my OS drive and my 4 internal drives. it took a couple of days to finish the 4 internal drives are all 1.8 TB size. i saw that all were labeled as health good. however i forgot to the percentage they got in the results. i have to look for a log. it was my first time using the program. ever since then my firefox has been slow loading and google has been slow loading as well.

any suggestions? thanks in advance

 

Can you say what the Operating System, and service pack installed, if any, is on that system, ie Win XP SP2 or 3, Vista SP1 or 2, 7 SP1 or not, 8, 8.1 or 10.
Please describe the Defraggler options you used on the principle SYSTEM drive.

 

hello

my OS is 64bit Windows 8.1. the options i didnt touch and just used default if i remember correctly. 12% fragmention was what the OS system. the rest of the drives was 0%. i used the defrag drives option.

yup i rebooted. internet explorer does run slow. it actually seems to load longer than firefox.

sorry david can you explain what you mean in layman terms that second sentence? i appreciate you two helping me out so far.

 

Focusing just on FIREFOX, as that was the issue you seem to be most concerned about, uninstall it BUT being careful not to include any profile data, then reinstall it from a fresh download.
See then if Fx is still slow.
Personally, on any MS OS from 7 upwards I wouldn't bother using any third-party defraggers. The inbuilt tools are fine and unless you are working on a system with a really tiny system drive, defragging is mostly a waste of time.

 

hello

i dont know how to uninstall firefox with it being careful not to include profile data. can you explain it to me? i kinda get the idea but i dont know how to do it exactly.

ok i will get rid of defraggler and still using "the defragment and optimize your drives" option built into Windows? i have windows 8.1 64bit.

 

Luckily, the standard Firefox uninstall process wont remove any personal profile data. They have changed it so that it has to be removed manually. I've just tested it on this laptop I'm using.
So just go to Programs and Features , select Mozilla Firefox and just click on uninstall and wait for that to finish.
Then just download a new Firefox set up file from mozilla.org, run it and install it and it will open with your existing profile.

This guide explains it too - just ignore the parts about removing personal user data and settings.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/uninstall-firefox-from-your-computer

 

hello

hmm i did what you told me in first paragraph but unfortunately i wasnt able to pick a different profile. no menu after reinstall. but to my surprise firefox browser is working fine again. i think it was ccleaner that i used yesterday. one question which defragment software do you recommend? i think you said the built in one with windows 8.1. hopefully something that won't take days to do its thing like the software i had.

thanks so far!

 

I don't understand your first points. Just uninstalling Firefox, then reinstalling it from a new set up file automatically just picks up your already existing profile, that you did not remove.
It's that simple.
If you use CCleaner, if you just use its default settings it wont remove bookmarks, saved logins, passwords etc. Try looking at the left-side settings for each application.

For Win 8 onwards I wouldn't use any third party software. The inbuilt defragger is fine:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-8/improve-performance-optimizing-hard-drive
But as I said earlier, unless your main drive is heavily used up and you are constantly installing/uninstalling software and moving large files, defragging more than once every 6 months doesn't actually achieve anything useful.

 

Hi max

Sorry if I'm annoying u. But based on what u wrote about Firefox I did uninstall then reinstall with a new setup from Firefox site. How do u solve the profile problem I'm having? I looked at the Mozilla Firefox site u linked to.

Thanks I will use Windows defrag.

 

Hi Michael

Sorry but I have no idea what 'profile problem' you are having.
In your earlier post you said

But you wouldn't want to choose a different profile, and anyway that choice isn't available unless you already had multiple different profiles, and if you did you would know that since you would have had to have created them.
If you just ran the uninstall and then reinstalled Firefox, your profile remained exactly the same as before since it is not changed at all by a simple uninstall of the core program.

 

To run Firefox with the ability to add another profile you would type this in the run/search box

Code:

firefox.exe -p

You get a box that pops up and has 3 options on the left: Create profile, Rename profile, Delete Profile.
You want the first option: Create profile. You then troubleshoot and see if FF works correctly. If it does, you can start importing bookmarks, adding your theme and addons.

 

Using the Profile Manager option, it should show 'Default' as an existing profile, ie the one that existed before the uninstall/reinstall of the core program.
But after a simple reinstall, just launching Firefox should open with that Default profile automatically, and as Michael said it was now running 'faster' - since doing the uninstall/reinstall - it must have opened with that default profile.

 

hey guys

i dont remember where i saw it but there was a way to bring up a profile menu with profile choices to pick.
ill try that plodr. thanks
sounds good max. i think i understand now. ill be back later or tomorrow after testing out the advice you guys gave me.