Smart Defrag displays an option on the main screen (scroll if you don't see it) to add files or folders that you want to defrag. You will also see activity on the map but that is more for show than useful.Ī click on details lists all fragmented files, but there is no option unfortunately to select individual files here for defragmentation. Once you start a defragmentation process, the estimated remaining time is displayed by Smart Defrag. The defragmentation of the drive may take a while depending on its fragmentation status and speed. You may pick any of the other actions listed here, for instance to defragment large files only. Naturally, you are not limited to selecting the recommended action. What you need to do instead is select "smart defrag" instead or move the mouse over the arrow next to it to select the recommended action. fast defrag but that option is not actionable there. The program displays a reocmmendation, e.g. Smart Defrag reveals the number of fragments and fragmented files that it found during the scan, and the overall fragmentation rate on top of that.
You may want to start with an analysis of platter-based drives connected to the PC which should not take longer than a minute even for large drives. If you want more control over the process, hover the mouse cursor over the icon on the right of the option to display available tasks. You may run smart defrag right away, which analyzes all drives first and runs the most appropriate option afterwards. The resolution of the window determines how many drives and other options are displayed on the screen at once, and scroll icons indicate that there is more to explore in this regard.Ī Trim option is displayed for Solid State Drives, while auto defrag (PRO version only), boot time defrag and disk cleanup options are displayed for platter-based drives. The program displays all hard drives connected to the PC it is run on right after start.Įach hard drive is displayed with its name, type, and free and total space.
You can select a different installation folder and uncheck the desktop icon creation option if you want but that is about it. Smart Defrag's installation is uneventful. It takes more time naturally to load data from all these different locations than from a single location where all of a file's data is stored in.ĭefragmentation tools for Windows are designed to movie the bits and pieces of a file closer together to improve loading performance. Think of fragmented files as data that is stored in several different locations on a hard drive.
File fragmentation can cause a number of issues on systems running Windows, but the most common one is that the loading of files takes longer than it should.
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