Free Auslogics Disk Defrag
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I had posted an article on the basics on how to clean up a PC here and received a nice comment from Julie D who recommended Auslogic Disk Defrag, a software product she uses. I remember joking in my basic computer classes that there are about 280,000 different softwares on the market and I am only familiar with 279,000 of them. But I don’t recall hearing about this free software program.
Before I proceed. Who makes a better CPU: AMD or Intel? A better OS: Apple or Microsoft? Should you leave your computer on all of the time or turn it off when not in use? Who cares? We all have our own personal opinions and these topics will be argued until we are pushing up daisies. So is the argument about whether or not to defrag your system. I am not interested in why we should or shouldn’t comments, but just the facts ala Joe Friday. 
Back to the topic. So I decided to give Auslogic Disk Defrag a try. The download was small and installation was snappy and I was up and running in no time. The GUI is easy to use. What was really surprising is that this software is fairly quick. I guess I expected it to be slow since it was free, but it wasn’t. The software was finished defragging in about 15 minutes or so, on 19G of files and folders. Naturally times may vary due to the severity of defragmentation.
My overall impressions? I liked it. It worked well and because it is free, I liked it even more!
Give it a try and see what you think. Than drop by and leave a comment on what you think.
Julie D - thanks again.
Auslogic Disk Defrag can be found here.
[tags]auslogic, disk, defrag, free, [/tags]
7 Comments
marc klink
May 25th, 2007
at 7:45am
I’ve been putting this on customers machines for about 6 months. It works great, and doesn’t have the nasty ‘buy now’ screen like Diskeeper Free edition.
Den
May 25th, 2007
at 8:34am
Hi…….Ron
Did You try this on your VISTA–MACHINE…..YET
I’m still Look-In for a FREE ONE FOR VISTA….
Thanks
Den
Ron Schenone
May 25th, 2007
at 9:13am
Hi Marc,
Thanks for letting me know. I think I’ll do the same on my client machines as well.
Hi Den,
Works fine on Vista as well. No problems.
Thanks for the comments, Ron
Linwood Kemp
May 26th, 2007
at 7:53pm
My question is what does the Auslogic defrag actually do? The graphic activity display is somewhat cryptic and I don’t find any technical explanation of what’s happening. If you run Microsoft’s disk defrag after Auslogic, MS’s utility may still show considerable fragmentation. My guess is that the two programs defrag in different ways. If so, then it would make sense to me to run both utilities for more thorough defragmentation.
malcolm
November 12th, 2007
at 9:59pm
I used to use Auslogic defrag, but recently switched to IOBit’s free tool ‘Smart defrag’ on one of my machines that get’s a lot of files added and deleted.
Smartdefrag has a “Set and forget” mode where it will wait till your PC is idle and then defrag in the background, and stop if you start using the CPU .. It claims to be still in Beta (v4.01) but I’ve been using it since 3.xx and its worked fine for me. you can get it from http://www.iobit.com
Ron Schenone
November 13th, 2007
at 5:52am
Hello Malcolm,
Thanks for the comments and also the link. I’ll give it a try.
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