6 Free Defragmentation Tools
Our friends over at Smashing Apps released a list of 6 Powerful Free Disk Defragmentation Tools. These are great tools to help your system run smoothly. Fragmentation occurs when the operating system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit, but instead puts parts of it in gaps between other files. Larger files and greater numbers of files also contribute to fragmentation and consequent performance loss.
Defragmentation should be done monthly or weekly depending on your volume of disk space. We haven’t had a chance to use all of these, but have tried out Defraggler and it is great. It is made by the same company that produced CrapCleaner, a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool.
UltraDefrag 4.0
UltraDefrag
is a powerful disk defragmentation tool for Windows. It is the first
open source defragmenter with full support of system locked files
defragmentation. Actually all files including registry hives and paging
file can be processed by UltraDefrag during the Windows boot process.
UltraDefrag is fully compatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008,
Windows 7 and all of the 64-bit editions of Windows.
Auslogics
Disk Defrag was designed to remedy system sluggishness and crashes
caused by disk fragmentation. It will help you get the maximum
performance out of your expensive hardware investments. The new version
can also consolidate free space and optimize system files placement.
Disk Defrag is absolutely free for home users.
You
can use Defraggler to defrag your entire hard drive, or individual
files. This tool is unique in the industry. This compact and portable
Windows application supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.
PageDefrag
uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters
cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and
Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments
event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system
memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
MyDefrag
is a disk defragmenter and optimizer (a maintenance utility to make
your harddisk faster) for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, 2008, Win7,
and for X64. It is freeware, no time limit, fully functional, no
advertisements. Fast, low overhead, with many optimization strategies,
can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that
looks like a disk to Windows.
WinContig
is an easy-to-use stand-alone defragmentation tool that doesn’t create
any installation directories or Registry entries on your computer. Its
purpose is to quick defrag files without the need to defrag the whole
disk. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles,
and also it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you
can use to control how the program operates.
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