After installing Disk Defrag, users are greeted with this window. From the main Auslogics pane, support techs can specify disks (or even specific files or folders) to be defragmented.
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Before performing a defragmentation, Disk Defrag 3 can analyze disks and drives (including flash memory) to determine which files, folders and drives require defragmentation. Here you can see an analysis of two drives is 50% complete. The entire process on these two half-terabyte drives took approximately 20-30 seconds.
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When the Disk Defrag 3 drive analysis completes, this window is displayed. In addition to displaying a graphical representation indicating a drive’s fragmentation status, the utility provides additional statistics (including the number of fragmented files and an overall fragmentation status).
Keep in mind that this Windows Vista Business system is supposed to automatically defragment its hard disks, yet the Disk Defrag utility found 35% of the files on the C: partition are fragmented. The D: partition is solely used to hold Vista’s compressed backup files, hence its 0% fragmentation.
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Clicking on the Files tab displays additional information. For example, you can view a list of fragmented files, determine the number of file fragments, determine their size and learn their actual hard disk path location.
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Disk Defrag 3’s Defrag & Optimize option, which can be selected from the console drop-down menu as shown here, offers additional functionality. The feature consolidates free space, relocates system files for optimal performance and removes regular files from MFT Reserved Zones.
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Administrators and support technicians can choose to automatically defragment systems. Using the Auto-defrag option, systems can perform defragmentation according to the options selected within this menu.
Here the system is configured to perform auto-defrag operations whenever the system is idle for 10 minutes. Other options include pausing Auto-defrag whenever the CPU and disk usage exceeds a specified threshold or auto-defragmenting only the system drive. Auto-defrag will only run once every 12 hours, too, to help reduce drive wear and tear.
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Defragmentation routines must coexist with numerous other systems and tasks, including backup operations and antivirus scans. Administrators and support technicians can set the defragmentation priority using the options found within the Settings menu, as shown here.
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Possibly the most helpful feature within Disk Defrag 3 is its support for scheduled defragmentation operations. Using the Schedule tab, admins and support techs can specify the frequency, down to the exact time of day, at which they’d like the operation to occur.
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Erik Eckel is a managing partner at Louisville Geek and president of Eckel Media Corp. He previously served as Executive Editor at TechRepublic. He received Microsoft Engineer accreditation from Sullivan University and earned his Bachelor's Degree in English from the University of Louisville. He's earned Network+, Windows NT 4.0 MCP+I and MCSE, and Windows 2000 Professional MCP accreditations.
