MyDefrag – Defragmenting your drive
MyDefrag is a defragmenting utility that optimizes your hard drive which improves the performance.
If you use your pc often to download and edit loads of stuff, fragmentation could occur. Basically, the hard drive, when written on to, writes data all over the hard disk to make write speed fast. This could cause fragmentation of files. When reading the files later, your hard disk read/write head needs to seek all over the disk to pick up the data.
My Defrag
Defragmenting software’s basically moves data of the same file together making reading of data faster. All Windows version comes with defrag utility. In most cases that would do but MyDefrag, based on the Windows API, does much more.
MyDefrag works based on scripts which you can modify as you wish. It does not have too many options like other defragmenter utilities you find but the scripting makes it powerful.
The basic scripts available are:
- Defragment Only
- Optimize Daily
- Optimize Monthly
- Optimize Weekly
I use only the Optimize Monthly script and schedule it using the Windows Task Scheduler and occasionally use Optimize. If you are more adventurous and would like to tweak the performance go ahead and write your own script. Help is available on their site and their forum is active.
If you are running MyDefrag on Windows 7 don’t forget to disable the Windows Defrag in the Task Scheduler. By default Windows own Defrag utility is scheduled to run Monthly.
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