Posts under Defrag tag.

Disable Defragmentation for SSD in Windows 8 | 7

In this post we will see how Windows 8 treats Defragmentation on Solid State Drives. A Solid State Drive or SSD is a relatively new kind of drive, which consists of an array of flash memory modules similar to a [...]

MaxiDisk 2013 Review & Download

Till recently MaxiDisk was a part of UniBlue PowerSuite, which helps maintain and improve the performance of your Windows computer. However, lately, the company has now started selling MaxiDisk 2013 as a separate product. MaxiDisk 2013 Review As is with most [...]

Free Registry Defragmenter to defrag Windows Registry

The Windows Registry is a database, located in the system32 folder, that stores all system configurations and settings.  Over a period of time, you do end up installing and uninstalling several software on your computer. many a times, you tweak or change [...]

Registry Defrag, is it good or bad?

The Windows Registry is a place where you will find all the settings for your operating system. It contains information for all the hardware and software, along with user preferences. The Registry isn’t simply one large file but a set [...]

The Improved Disk Defragmentor and Storage Optimizer in Windows 8

In Windows 8, the humble defragmentation tool has evolved to carry on other roles, apart from its disk defragmentation role. While in Windows 7 and Windows Vista, the disk defragmentation tool did improve, it still continued to only defragment the [...]

What is file fragmentation and how does it occur in Windows

Windows has its own defragmenting tool and you might have used it already. When it comes to Windows file storing algorithms, the operating system makes a case for excess fragmentation through its temporary files. And probably that is the reason why [...]

Giveaway: 10 licenses of Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro

Auslogics Disk Defrag is arguably one of the best known and most popular disk defragmentation software available for the Windows operating system. While most of us remain satisfied with using the Auslogics Disk Defrag free version or any of the other [...]

Top 5 Free Defragmentation Software for Windows 7

Microsoft has substantially improved the native Defragmenting Utility in Windows, with the release of Windows Vista, and further improved upon it in Windows 7. The defrag engine and the manageability of fragmentation is much better than what existed in Windows XP. [...]

Defrag disk, files and system files at boot-time with Defraggler

Defraggler is a free Disk defragmentation software which lets you quickly defrag the individual files you want to, without having to process the whole drive. The new version now lets you even defrag system files at boot-time.

Defrag MFT, Page File, Registry, System Files using Puran Defrag in Windows

The Windows 7 disk defragment utility is scheduled to work in the background. The Disk Defragmenter runs as a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the computer. It runs only when the machine is idle [...]

Troubleshooting Windows Disk Defragmenter utility

Like Windows Vista, the disk defragmenter utility in Windows 7 is automatically scheduled to run at 1.00 am, by default, which means that you don’t really need to run it manually. But if you find that you are unable to [...]

Defrag Options & Command line switches in Windows 7 | 8

The Defrag tool in Windows 7 – and Windows 8 too – offers some additional options compared to that in Windows Vista. Its command line version has some additional switches. Open an elevated command prompt windows. Defrag Command line switches [...]