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Top 5 Free Disk Defragmentation Software for Windows

A disk defragmentation software is a program which gives you the optimum utilization of the space in your computer or hard drive. When our computer writes data into a file on our hard drive, it’s not always able to place all of the data together. A section of a file might be written at the beginning of the disc, the rest of that file could be written near the end. Due to this, programs runs slowly because computer spends time retrieving the file fragments from all over the disk. Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Defragmenting the disk arranges files and free space in an orderly manner, reducing the time taken to read a file. Here comes the use of disk defragmentation tools and below are the top five among them.

1. Defraggler

Defraggler is a wonderful freeware defragmentation software made by Piriform company. Using this tool, you may defragment specified files or folders or the entire drive. It is as safe as using windows and uses the same technique for reading and writing that windows use. It supports NTFS and FAT32 file systems.

2. Auslogics Disk Defrag

Auslogics Disk Defrag is a freeware compact and fast defragmentation software. It is finely designed for fast defragmentation of modern hard disks. It has advanced disk optimization techniques, which will help you to protect your PC from the problems caused by disk fragmentation. It gives a visual map of the sectors that its working on and the defragmented sectors are displayed in different color.

3. My Defrag

My Defrag is a powerful freeware disk defragmenter software, earlier known JKDefrag. It organizes files into zones, such as directories, regular files, and rarely used files.Files that are accessed often are placed at the beginning of the hard disk while the files that are commonly used together are placed in closely to each other. This organization results in high efficiency of computers by increasing the speed.

4. UltraDefrag

UltraDefrag is a simple to use free software having powerful Modern design Graphical User interface.It is an open-source disk defragmenter for Windows.It has been optimized to complete the job quickly, reliably and achieve best results possible.

5. Puran Defrag Free

Puran Defrag is an easy to use freeware disk defragmenter software that offers automatic defragmentation, intelligent directory optimization, and optimization of free space etc. Features include automatic restart or shutdown after defragmentation and so on.

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  • Steve March 30, 2015, 1:40 am

    I tired Disk Keeper 15 and it is a very sad decline from Disk Keeper of years ago. It provide almost zero control over what you can do, shows you next to nothing of what is going on, and there is no map to show you what it has done. The trial version FAILED to detect the third partition on my physical drive IN the laptop and FAILED to find any external drive and FAILED to find the SDHC card plugged into the port IN the laptop. Disk Keeper is IMHO junk. I will not pay for a product that can not detect drives or partitions.

    My Defrag is probably no longer supported. Last version 4.3.1 was released May of 2010 which is almost 5 years ago. The website doesn’t even mention Windows 8 and the author can not be reached by email which he clearly states on his personal website.

    I simply used Auslogics Disk Defrag. It recognized ALL of my disks, was fast, and showed what it was doing. Best by far. Staying with what works.

    The remaining two programs have CONS that are frankly not worth the trouble in today’s market. Or worth my extra time to deal with.