I get this question a lot. And generally speaking the answer is a resounding “no”. I have gone nearly twelve years using Linux without defragging a drive and I’ve never noticed a slowdown on a system. But just because you don’t need to doesn’t mean you can’t. I have found  it possible to actually check [...]

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Puran Defrag is a disk defragmenter for the Windows operating system. Defragmention occurs over time when programs and files cannot be saved in one block on the hard drive. This can lead to slower access times and performance decreases. Some disk defragmentation programs provide advanced features like moving files into the fastest sectors of the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

MyDefrag 4.0 was released two days ago after a series of beta releases and a name change from JkDefrag. The new version has still all the traits of the popular JkDefrag. Interested users can take a look at the changes in this new version in the announcement forum posts made by the developer of the [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Most users agree that the disk defragmentation software that ships with Microsoft Windows PCs is not the best piece of computer software to defragment a computer system efficiently. Probably the main point of criticism centers around speed but there are others that weight in as well especially where functionality is concerned. That’s the main reason [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

FragExt is not your usual defragmenting software that you point at a system partition and let it do its work. It can be used to defragment selected files much like Defraggler with the difference that it integrates more nicely into the Windows operating system. It does have one slight disadvantage that will be explained later [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

My defragmenter of choice has always been Auslogic Defragmenter, I have no idea how effective it is compared to other programs but it’s simple enough and looks pretty. However I came across Piriform Defraggler the other day and I was interested in one feature it had… individual file and folder defragmentation. At first I thought [...]

Categories: Tools, Windows

Ultimate Defrag is on first glance yet another defragmentation tool that can analyze the hard drive and defragment it to speed it up. Looking a bit closer however will reveal another feature that has never been before implemented in defragmentation programs: The ability to move the files to other locations on the disk based on [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It does not make sense to start a hard drive defragmentation if the drive is not really fragmented. You might be loosing lots of time if you have scheduled those defragmentations. The defrag tool in Windows can be used to check the fragmentation level of a hard drive and we are going to use this to create a script that runs defrag only when the hard drive is fragmented.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows

Defragmenting the hard drives of your computer is important especially for users who install lots of programs or perform lots of read and write operations on their hard drives (p2p users for instance). In a perfect world files would be written contiguously on the hard drive – in the world of windows they are not. Read operations waste more time because all the bits that make the file are not in one place but scattered around the complete hard drive. Defragmenting the drive moves them closer to each other to speed up loading times.

Categories: Operating Systems, Windows