A powerful and fast Windows disk defragmentation tool which uses SysInternals WinContig tool.
If you're running a PC that doesn't have a solid state drive (or SSD), you're liking going to come across slowdowns if you have not defragmented your drive in a while.
Power Defragmenter is a free program which offers an alternative way to defrag your hard drives. It is optimized to deal with large HDDs and works by reducing the fragmentation of files on your drive. Power Defragmenter will organize your data in a way which provides quicker access by the operating system.
As a portable application, it is not necessary to install Power Defragmenter and it may be run without installation. Furthermore, you can also place it on a USB drive or memory card and run it on most systems which need to be defragmented.
The application itself was originally designed for older versions of Windows but no worries, it also works fine on newer versions of Windows like Windows 8 and Windows 7.
The application provides for four different modes including Defragment file(s), Defragment folder(s), Defragment disk and TriplePass Disk Defragmentation. The last one should run over the disk three times to catch anything that was missed in the previous pass. Once you've selected your option, the application will launch in command-line mode which you can safely minimize.
Overall, Power Defragmenter is a fast and free alternative disk defragger which is powerful and effectively improves the performance of systems with traditional hard drives.
Features of Power Defragmenter
- Advanced Options: Customize defragmentation settings.
- Advanced Reporting: Generate detailed reports of defragmentation processes.
- Automatic Defragmentation: Automatically defragment files and folders.
- Background Defragmentation: Run defragmentation in the background.
- Boot Time Defragmentation: Defragment files and folders during system startup.
- Compact System Files: Reduce fragmentation of system files.
- Defragmentation Prioritizing: Prioritize files and folders for defragmentation.
- Disk Analysis: Analyze disks to see how fragmented they are.
- Drive Maps: View the status of each drive before and after defragmentation.
- File Exclusion: Exclude files and folders from defragmenting.
- Fragmentation Prevention: Automatically prevent files from becoming fragmented.
- Multi-threading: Speed up the defragmentation process by multitasking.
- Scheduling: Set up defragmenting tasks on a regular basis or at specific times.
- Space Management: Manage free space on your hard drive.
- System Restore Points: Restore your system to a previous state.
Compatibility and License
Power Defragmenter is provided under a freeware license on Windows from hard drive defrag software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 3.1 is the latest version last time we checked.
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