[Auslogics Disk Defrag Ultimate 4.11.0.2 [Latest]
Argimiro Krishnamoorthy
Have you noticed that your PC is not running as fast as it used to? Do some programs or files take longer to open or load? It may be that your computer's hard disk is too fragmented. With Auslogics Disk Defrag, you can easily defragment your hard disk and recover lost speed.
As you use your PC, Windows OS leaves fragments on your hard disk, which slows down your PC in general when you want to open any file or program, as it takes the system time to find everything it needs. The solution is to defragment the hard disk. With Auslogics Disk Defrag, you can organize the previously scattered information and compact it again on your hard disk as it should be, so that your computer can access it more quickly.
Auslogics Disk Defrag displays an intuitive, easy-to-use user interface, perfect whether you are an expert or not. In fact, it will show you the status of the process through a color scale. Auslogics Disk Defrag will not freeze your computer while it is working, but you can stop the process at any time if you need to. But what really stands out is that while still active, Auslogics Disk Defrag allows you to continue working with your PC.
I would like a batch version. Yes, hear the critics say you can turn on auto start. It is very cumbersome for me, because I often need the machine for presentation purposes and then it doesn't come so...
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If there are any unmovable files on the disk it is very likely that you will not be able to have both 100% defragmented files AND 100% defragmented free space at the same time. This is because the amount of space between unmovable files may not have any combination of your files that are the same length. Plus the unmovable files themselves may be fragmented.
From memory FAT32 stores its directory structure in unmovable files, though it has been a lot of years since I've really used FAT32. Yes a directory is stored as a file on the disk that essentially contains a list of the files and folders inside it and where on the disk each of them starts. As you add more files to a directory the size of the file storing the directory information grows. This can become fragmented. NTFS allows you to defragment the directory files too.
The developer of jkdefrag renamed his product to MyDefrag. I know that the MyDefrag tool allows you to wrap a file around unmovable files, such that the free space is 100% consolidated, and all of the movable files on the disk are in sequential order, like defragmented files, but with the unmovable files in between segments of the file. This will show the files as fragmented, but reading them will still be very fast due to them being on the disk in sequence. Reading one of these files that wrap around the unmovable files will occur in sequential disk logical block address order but with a few gaps here and there. The length of time it takes a disk to skip reading some sectors is VERY short.
Edit: Also, just because there is open free space does not mean windows or for that matter Linux will use the space you expect in a sequential nature when adding new files. You may have to defragment anyway.
Defraggler moves files or large file fragments in order to create asingle continuous block of free clusters. It starts from the beginningof the drive, filling empty blocks with file clusters taken fromlocations later on the drive.
I am running Windows XP, and have dirms version 3.0.0.0 command-line utility from 2010 installed. From my understanding of this program's documentation, NTFS leaves a gap between files, such that a disk has fragmented free space. Second, if a smaller file is deleted from the drive, that opens up its space for reuse. If a larger file is added, even if there is a large enough segment of free space to hold this new file in one segment, the first, smaller space is used, and the file is fragmented as its remaining fragment fills the next available space.
Dirms packs files together, defragmenting free space and thus making larger segments of space available. This is done with the command line entry "dirms c compact" where the first "c" is the drive letter to be compacted. If defragmentation and moving files closer together via compacting are done, this reduces the tendency to fragment files.
Dirms cannot solve the NTFS issue with deleting a smaller file and then adding a larger file, for the new file will still fill the first available space vacated by the smaller, deleted file and then become fragmented. That is a file system fault. (Of course, a run of Dirms after deleting a file will avoid the fragmentation of the new file!)
I also understand from the documentation that dirms will reduce the number of fragments when there is not enough free space available to fully defragment a file. The built-in defrag tool will not even attempt to defragment a file if there is not enough free space in one segment to hold the entire file. Dirms contends that a partial defragmentation is still better than none, for it requires less drive head movement to read the file.
I have Auslogic's DiskDefrag 4.4.2.0 installed, and it has the ability to position system files first on the drive for rapid system responsiveness. I notice that it leaves a free space segment near the beginning whereas dirms will not. It could be the thinking here is to provide free space near the front of the drive for rapid read-write response on a freshly defragmented drive.
Perhaps the best of both worlds is to periodically run Auslogics to place system files first and then compact with dirms. I don't know if removing Auslogics' up-front free space with dirms would materially take away from the system speed boost, but that would consolidate your free space to the extent permitted by the presence of immovable files.
Auslogics Disk Defrag is a free tool which can be used to speed up your PC's hard disk drive(s) by rearranging files from a fragmented state to a better organized state where frequently accessed files and closer to each other.The interface of Auslogics Disk Defrag couldn't be easier to use and it's completely straight forward.To get started defragging your drive, simply choose the hard drive you want to defrag from the drop-down list and Auslogics Disk Defrag will quickly display the size along with current free and used space including a pretty pie graph. From there, click away and start defragging you drive OR analyze it first to see whether it even needs to be defragged.The program is speedy fast and beats the defragmentation tools currently found on Microsoft Windows systems. When testing Auslogics Disk Defrag, the program was still fast as lightning. Auslogics has done a wonderful job on creating a true freeware solution for anybody who wants to increase the performance of their system.Features of Auslogics Disk Defrag
- Boot-time defrag: Allows defragmenting system files even when the system is in use.
- Customization: Allows selecting different defragmentation methods, file types and other settings.
- Disk backup: Allows creating a backup before defragmenting the drive.
- Disk errors: Automatically checks for disk errors and repairs them if needed.
- File exclusions: Allows excluding certain files from the defragmentation process.
- Fragmentation prevention: Analyzes disk fragmentation patterns and optimizes file placements to prevent fragmentation before it happens.
- Low resource usage: Uses minimal system resources.
- Report generation: Generates detailed reports about disk status and defragmentation results.
- SSD optimization: Optimizes SSD drives to increase their lifespan and performance.
- Scheduling: Automatically defragment in the background for maximum speed and efficiency.
- Smart optimization: Identifies and reorders the most frequently used files and directories for faster access.
- Space restoration: Reclaims wasted disk space caused by fragmentation.
- Task queuing: Allows queuing multiple defragmentation tasks and executing them one after another.
- Visual representation: Colorful diagram displays disk fragmentation levels.