Comments on: Five Free Programs to Defragment your PC

By: swarfega

swarfega — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:09:43 +0000

Slight inaccuracy with your description of the fragmention process. Fragmented files dont get scattered across various folders, thats not possible. Instead they get scattered across several sectors on the hard drive, making the journey that the head has to travel longer than is necessary, hence the need to defrag to return the file to its contiguous length.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:29:07 +0000

Thanks for the article. Auslogics is the best! Especially since they’ve released version 3 (http://www.auslogics.com/en/blog/2009/11/auslogics-disk-defrag-3-defrag-and-optimize-hard-drives/). Now it properly defrags the files and free space as well. Good job Auslogics!

By: lifeh2o

lifeh2o — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:06:57 +0000

“JKDefrage” is the best and portable small freeware

By: Joep

Joep — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:14:49 +0000

DiskTune is an easy to use, on-demand, no frills disk optimizer and defragmentation utility for FAT, FAT32 and NTFS formatted drives. Through a simple to use mechanism to create `jobs` it enables you to launch one-click jobs and schedule jobs. DiskTune is freeware. DiskTune will reorganize your disk and will make it faster and more responsive.

http://www.diydatarecovery.bravejournal.com/index.php

By: TechMalaya

TechMalaya — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:12:47 +0000

for file based defragmentation, you can try piriform defraggler instant defragmentation at its best.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:42:02 +0000

You should try O&O Defrag — that’s my current personal favorite.

By: Donn Edwards

Donn Edwards — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:29:04 +0000

There are better free defrag utilities than the ones mentioned here. In "The Great Defrag Shootout" you can find reviews of 16 commercial and 15 free defrag utilities. One of the "winners" is JkDefrag 3.26, and when used in combination with PageDefrag and the JkDefrag GUI, provides a much better alternative to the built-in Windows Defragmenter, and knocks the socks off many commercial utilities such as Diskeeper. The best commercial defrag utility I found is PerfectDisk, and if you like the minimalist approach taken by Vista, the PuranDefrag 3 is going to be hard to beat.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:25:02 +0000

My bad, PD Defragments only registry and paging files but I am not really sure abt the rest. It’s just MF Tables on my system seem to be in a pretty good shape so I assumed it’s due to one of the installed utilities.

By: Jack Sparrow

Jack Sparrow — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:24:40 +0000

Does pagedefrag defragment the MFT too? I could be wrong, but I don’t think it defrags the MFT. I was under the impression that there is no single freeware tool that does everything the commercial defraggers do. I stand corrected if it does indeed defrag the MFT.

By: Aibek

Aibek — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:05:22 +0000

Just got it on my system. JkDefrag needs a serious interface redesign, looks like a native Win 93 application. Although when it comes to defragmentation speed, definitely tops most of the alternative programs.