Freeware of the Moment: Auslogics Disk Defrag
Hey, everyone needs a good disk defragmenter, so why not a free one? Disk Defrag from Auslogics fits the bill. Yes, I know that Windows comes with its own defragmentation tool, but if you’re running Vista, don’t you miss the mesmerizing status of each little file update? This tool not only gives you that Windows 95 experience, it provides some interesting information after making those files contiguious again. Built upon Microsoft’s Safe Defragmentation API, it reports the amount of slowness that fragmented files caused. Free for Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Server 2003 on FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS volumes.
That’s hilarious. This was one of the things I missed when I was running Vista on the Q1. Ever since the Amiga days, I’ve been mesmerized with watching the defrag process.
I stiil have XP & have been using the Auslogic disk defrag for most of this year and have been very happy with it. Best I have ever used
I use Diskeeper Pro 2k7 on Vista, and it’s amazing. It gives you the option to defrag system files such as the MFT (you can resize it too), and it’s automatic background defrag mode is really cool. Auslogics is okay for a free defragmenter, but it didn’t strike me as much of improvement over the default windows utility.