Smart New Disk Defrager

[Daffy D]

Accelerate the whole system with fast and efficient disk defragment

Works with:-

Microsoft® Windows® 7

Microsoft® Windows® Vista

Microsoft® Windows® XP

Microsoft® Windows® 2000

IObit Smart Defrag 2 is a free defragging tool. It's also rather fast. The answer is to defragment your drive. This will move files in to one continuous block and rearrange the space so that it ends up located in one big block of space. It means your files and applications launch much more quickly."

Designed for Top Disk Performance

Always-on Automatic Defragment

"Boot Time Defrag" Technology

Smart Defrag 2

[vont]

I downloaded it.

Read and examined it together with other ads on the page.

And the enticement to purchase related products.

Then I decide not to install it.

[kurnell]

I use it. Much faster. Much, much faster.

[Daffy D]

I downloaded it.

Read and examined it together with other ads on the page.

And the enticement to purchase related products.

Then I decide not to install it.

The "enticement to purchase related products" comes with most freebies and lets the companies give out freebies in the first place.

If you get past the download page there are no nag screens to purchase anything once you have downloaded the defragger.

It's a good piece of free software - go on give it a try

[Somtamnication]

I used defraggler. But this one is truly faster and does a better job.

[steelepulse]

I use it also along with their advanced system care. Nothing wrong with good free software and I even bought the pro version of advanced system care as I like the product.

[bobbin]

I have been using it for 10 days or so.

I like the automatic de-frag, but sometimes it seems to slow my system down. It runs in the background and shuts itself down if cpu usage passes 60%.

[PattayaParent]

There's ads on the pages????

Didn't notice any.

Been using Smart Defrag (1.5) for a while now and there's nowt wrong with it .

Installed 2.0 in a couple of minutes. Must say I like the old interface better but I guess I'll get used to the new one.

Edit: WOW, quick, it defragged a 230Gb drive with 40Gb free space in just over 3 minutes. But I keep the drives maintained and defragged weekly.

[newtronbom]

Good post and thanks for the tip. I too am impressed. Very fast and easy. Cheers.

[astral]

Diskeeper has been offering me an upgrade to a new defragger, but they want money.

I will check this out.

[Phil Conners]

When I noticed this topic I though, "it's been years since I used a disk defragmenter, isn't that a little nineties", so I used Google to have a look for recent articles on the current situation.

There is an interesting and recent PC World article on the issue of using a defragmenter

A couple of quotes from the article:

The short answer: Defragging isn't vital anymore, but it's still a good idea--unless you have a solid state drive. And Windows' own defragger is fine.

All of the defraggers came in at a statistical dead heat. Even weirder, the still-fragmented disk tied with the defragged ones.

[..] modern hard drives were not noticeably slowed by fragmentation [..][but] defragging is still a good idea, because, should a disaster strike, it makes successful data recovery more likely.

So there you are. Apparently you shouldn't expect any performance increase from defragmenting your drives, but if you have important data on the disks it might be worth defragmenting in order to be able to recover the data easier.

OTOH, I don't know what the statistics are for that, but I've always been a little apprehensive of the risks that the defragmentation process itself might mess up my data...

[Laawman]

I'm currently using Win 7, and after having tried most of the popular defrag software out there I find the best is the one supplied with the OS. Only trouble is remembering to leave it on for the auto defrag.....................

[Supernova]

I've always been a little apprehensive of the risks that the defragmentation process itself might mess up my data...

Very unlikely; I never actually seen it happen.

From the PCWorld article:

For a hard drive, I generally recommend defragging about once a month--with Windows' own defragger.

Couldn't agree more.

Once a month is plenty. Windows' defragger is good enough.