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April 8, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Featured Freeware: Auslogics Disk Defrag

by Seth Rosenblatt
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Hopefully, there aren't too many Windows users left who don't have Auslogics Disk Defrag. In case you don't, though, this is an excellent time to stop using the slow, native Microsoft defragger and upgrade--for free!--to an app that works better and faster: Auslogics Disk Defrag.

Even on older Windows XP systems, the program runs reasonably fast. Chose a hard drive from the drop-down menu to get a read on its stats such as free and used space and get a visual comparison in a pie chart. One click starts the defragging, and along with a visual table representing the various bits and bytes that are being shunted around, you also get a running ticker of the file currently being defragged. Disk Defragger spits out a bar graph and an HTML report at the end, lacking only a final sector map.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by brmishra April 8, 2008 4:00 AM PDT
wonderfull
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by 3DMC April 8, 2008 4:13 AM PDT
this program is great and i feel is make my system faster
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by Ron Rowan April 8, 2008 8:07 AM PDT
Loved this free defrag software !!!
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by skiracer712 April 8, 2008 8:29 AM PDT
great program, have used it for quite awhile now.<br /><br />whats up with all the recycled articles lately though???
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by Allanwing April 9, 2008 3:16 AM PDT
Have just downloaded, I must be missing something, my hard drive was scanned, when I want to complete I'm sent to web site to buy copy.
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by slipplane April 9, 2008 6:36 AM PDT
Well, it's free, so there's that, but it's nowhere as good as Diskeeper 2008 pro that I am using with Vista currently. Diskeeper is not free, but it's worth the price- MFT/PF defrag, multiple defrag modes including a very useful VSS defrag mode (necessary for Vista), fragshield, and smart I/O sensing, none of which Auslogics has. I'll stick with Diskeeper for now ;)
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by ram.automotive April 9, 2008 9:18 AM PDT
Hope this speeds up my computer. Look forward to ALL the free downloads that CNET offers.
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by skorpio April 13, 2008 9:56 AM PDT
hi just have downloaded AUSTLOGIGS DISK DEFRAG and it came up with 500 errors on my hard drive and to fix it i was ask to pay for a licence...well this may be so but it was listed FREE in your free downloads so whats going one? cheers hans bell
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