Auslogics – Making Disk Defrag Better for All

A few weeks ago I spoke about the newest version of Auslogics Disk Defragmenter , revision 2.12.50, which will allow scheduled defragmentation during periods of inactivity, as well as giving the user a very nice interface to work with.

While not near the level of sophistication that Diskeeper shows, it is excellent, easy on resources, accurate, and free. Everyone knows the benefit of free, but when I say accurate, I mean that it won’t, under any circumstances I’ve been able to produce, shred your drive. Can I get a ‘yippee!’ (I was using it on a laptop that had a battery which was totally dead, and during the defrag, the power cord was pulled out by my dog. After putting the cord back in, and allowing the machine to restart, I found that everything was ok.)

Now, the nice people at Auslogics have come up with another method of doing the defrag – starting it when your machine goes into its screen saver mode. The screen saver is the defrag screen, and then the screen is simply blanked after the process is done. I don’t know how this happened, but that is what happened on the first run – on the second run, the defrag screen becomes the  dimmed defrag screen with various parts of the drive map lighting up, and the entire screen getting a workout.  If you like to have a screen saver going all the time, you must try something else (for now, it might get added later, who knows?).

But if you like your machine to get its drive(s) defragged on a regular basis, and think that doing it while sitting idle is good, along with the ’screen saver’ aspect of it – this is another nice bit of programming from some very nice people down under.

Disk Defragmenter

Disk Defragmenter/Screensaver

These both support Windows 2000, Windows 2003 [server], Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 [both 32 and 64 bit on all that apply]

Enjoy!

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