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Best freeware defragmenter


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I suggest Defraggler, it actually seems to optimize the order the files on the drive.

Auslogics is fast, but it seems to have a less sophisticated algorithm that isn't as effective.

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As long as some performance increase is notable....

You'll only notice a performance increase if your file system is massively fragmented. (DON'T DEFRAG A SSD DRIVE)

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As long as some performance increase is notable....

What kind of performance increase are we talking about? NOTHING, is going to make a 5400rpm hd preform like a 7200rpm hd, and don't even think about getting SSD like increases. The platters only spin so fast, and as someone posted above unless your hd is a complete wreck fragment wise, you probably won't be able to notice the difference at all.

I do use Defraggler, but only every once in a while, just let Windows manage the day to day stuff and run a defragmenter once a month or so. You might think about partitioning your hard drive, I have a "Windows", a "Games" and a "Stuff" partition. I only defrag the Windows and Games partitions, the stuff get written to the most but I don't care if it gets fragmented.

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I love MyDefrag myself.

What kind of performance increase are we talking about? NOTHING, is going to make a 5400rpm hd preform like a 7200rpm hd, and don't even think about getting SSD like increases. The platters only spin so fast, and as someone posted above unless your hd is a complete wreck fragment wise, you probably won't be able to notice the difference at all.

Most peoples HDs are a complete wreck unless they defrag often. Especially with XP, since vista and 7 have built in defrag tools (which only run if the comp is idle of course.)

It's not the platter speed that's the problem in such cases. Hell, I have a 5400rpm drive and a 7200rpm drive that give almost the exact same speeds. (110 megs going down to ~50 at the end)

Defragging is an extremely important thing to do for HDs. The performance increase is very noticable.

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