To Analyze The Drive – Open the Defraggler program – you should see your hard drive partition(s) listed at the top e.g. If you want to create a shortcut to the program on your desktop, right click on it and choose ‘Send To’ and then ‘Desktop’ (Create Shortcut). Tip: You must use the version that matches Windows – if you don’t know whether your Windows is 32bit or 64bit see our article here to find out). Within this dfsetup folder you will find Defraggler.exe (the 32bit program) and Defraggler64.exe (the 64bit program). Unzip (extract) the zip file to create a dfsetupxyz folder (where xyz is the current version e.g. Download and save the ‘Defraggler – Portable’ version from Piriform here – it is a zip file (the second download on the page). We recommend using the portable version of Defraggler – the less programs that are installed in Windows, the less cluttered (and therefore quicker) your computer will be. Unlike the defragmenter built into Windows (which only lets you defrag an entire drive in one go – can take a long time), Defraggler lets you defragment one or more files, folders, or the whole drive – and there is a portable version too. The integrated Windows defragmenter tool is very basic and doesn’t do as good a job as a dedicated defragmenting program. We recommended using Defraggler to defragment a hard drive.ĭefraggler is a free program by Piriform – the company behind the excellent Ccleaner which we have recommended before to delete temporary files. We concluded that if your computer is more than 3 years old or you want to tweak the last ounce of performance from your system, defragmenting is still worth doing – especially if you regularly install new programs or create/save lots of files. Last week we reviewed whether it is still worth defragmenting a hard drive.
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