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Well, and in today’s first “blog-entry”, I will list my three favorite defragmentation programs. Note that all the three are so-called “non-setups”; meaning they are contained in a .zip archive (or are non-zipped single-executables), and thus no special installation is required. And yeah, all the three mentioned programs are available to download completely free of charge …
1. For an “on-demand” defragmentation, I use the Contig: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Contig.html CLI program from Sysinternals, which first analyzes the current file/folder fragmentation, and then allows user to defragment a single file (it’s a first program that I’ve seen to offer that), defragment multiple files; of course, it is also directory recursive. It can also make “pre-contiguous” empty files with fixed/choosen size (with unlimited lenght), i.e. so that the files are defragmented before used for the first time and before containing any data (before being written to)
2. And there is also another one, the program called Dirms: http://www.dirms.com/home/docs/dirms1.asp (same as Contig, it’s a CLI application), which is also an “on-demand” type; it first offers users to do a free space evaluation, then defragment and/or optionally move the files to the front of the drive (optionally according to the file-modification dates), and additionally it can also compact them, i.e. it minimizes the space between the files.
3. However, for an “on-the-fly defragmentation”, I use the Buzzsaw: http://www.dirms.com/home/docs/buzzsaw.asp program (from the same site/author as Dirms); this one is a GUI program and it monitors the hard-disk usage level and waits one minute before attempting to defragment a newly fragmented file, and additionally, it doesn’t defragment the file till the hard-disk usage is less than 5% for some time.
P.S. - Lately, I mostly use batch-files to defragment specific directories that are frequently fragmented on day-to-day basis. This spares me from copying the commands and pasting them to “Run” menu each and every time.
Ivan Tadej (user: “tayiper”)
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