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 [...]
Ultimate Defrag
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 [...]
Defraggler a defragmentation software
The makers of CCleaner and Recuva have created a new software called Defraggler which is a defragmentation software for Microsoft Windows 2000 up to Windows Vista. Defraggler introduces some new features that most – if not all – other defragmentation softwares are missing.
Add Defragment Now to the right-click menu
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.
How to Speed Up the Defragmentation
I´am always leaving my computer for the time that it is defragmenting the hard drives, it takes way to long to sit there and wait for the process to finish. The defragmentation seems to take forever to finish on my three hard drives and I was looking for a way to speed things up a bit and reduce the time that I could not work with my computer.
