Defraggler - Defragment Your Hard Drives

Hello everyone! I'm finally sitting down to write my first blog post. I'm going to make this post a quick review about a nifty little PC tool I came across recently. It's called"Defraggler".

It's a hard drive defragmenting tool created by Piriform, the company that made CCleaner and Recuva. It differs from other defrag tools on the market, giving you the ability to quickly and simply defrag any specific files you want to, without having to defrag the entire hard drive!

After a hard drive analysis, Defraggler lists all the fragmented files on the drive. Selecting one or several files will highlight their location, allowing you to visually see where they are on the disk. From there, you can defrag those files in seconds, rather than waiting for the whole entire hard drive to complete.

This is great for defragging specific folders that are read/written to frequently, such as a folder full of pictures and/or videos. I have noticed a significant increase in speed with the displaying of pictures/videos in thumbnail view after a defrag with Defraggler. And yes, if you wish to defrag the entire hard drive, you can do that as well with Defraggler to optimize system performance.

Defraggler was written in the same compact architecture as the other Piriform products (CCleaner and Recuva). This results in a compact single EXE application, which can be copied to a small USB key and then used whenever and wherever you may need it, without a complex installation process. The executable file itself is less than 1 Megabyte!

Defraggler works with all operating systems released since Windows 2000, including Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. It supports both 32-bit and 64-bit operating system versions and both NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

The most important aspect of Defraggler is that it's FREE! Yes, FREEWARE! No need to pay hundreds of dollars for a commercial defragmentation tool. And yes, it is free for corporate use too. This means you can take it to your small business and defrag all your machines for optimization to your hearts content.

Well, I hope this has been a somewhat informative post for you computer techies out there. In short, use of this simple freeware program is quick and easy. I highly recommend this little program to anyone looking to optimize the performance of their computer. And if it's computer optimization you're looking for, I also recommend CCleaner, which I will blog about in another post.

Catch ya next time.

Cheers!

- The Temporal Guardian -