Vopt for Windows

User Reviews

• Vopt is the best defrag - gotta know how to use it!

  jamworld222February 20, 2011

  Pros

  VERY FAST and VERY POWERFUL - only defrag program out there that shows you a REAL cluster-for-cluster representation of your drive!

  Cons

  Not a CON - a Warning - You really need to know what you're doing if you're going to do anything but a straight basic defrag operation

  Summary

  A well-designed and well-maintained software. If you know absolutely nothing about this stuff - just pick a drive and ask the program to defrag it with the program's default settings and watch the pretty screen - Vopt is the only defrag program that shows you each cluster exactly where it is on the drive and what Vopt is doing with it. Or you can click on the screen, pick a cluster, any cluster - if it's part of a fragmented file, Vopt lets you manually drag the file to anywhere on your hard drive (I suppose it let's you drag any file) and it will gather up the pieces and assemble it - defragmented - wherever you want as long as there's room. But you should let Vopt make those decisions. You have Quick Defrag or Tighter Packing options straight off, but under Advanced Settings it allows you to control more esoteric aspects - like moving your system restore files to the end of the drive. It has it's own built in clean up utility that works really well. White list important cookie and add files to an exclusion list if you don't want Vopt to mess with them. (Vopt already will not move files Windows has fixed or the Paging File but it can be set to defrag these on start up.) Run an analysis, see what kind of junk there is and run the cleanup utility or delete the garbage manually then let Vopt loose. I have used it for years and have never had it mess up my drive - even once years ago when the power failed in the middle of the operation - Vopt just picked up where it had left off. Also included: a bunch of small utilities and access to some built in Windows utilities - some tune up functions, converting FAT32 blocks to NTFS, drive failure detection, health, chkdsk, windows malicious software removal tool... they may seem random at first but obviously each one reflects directly on Vopt's ability to better defrag the drive and for the system to run better. A lot of power is packed into a very unassuming and simple package. It's not free but the cost is so minimal for all you get - plus good, solid and fast performance. In it's quick mode I have never seen a defrag program that's faster.

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• WARNING Virus

  verbalvoracityAugust 20, 2010

  Pros

  It has a virus. Not a pro.

  Cons

  It has a virus. Confirmed on ME. Deletes system32 except drivers folder on Millenium. From a fresh install. Where's Quality Assurance?

  Summary

  Don't download. Virus.

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• The best defrag program in the world

  sonurakarJuly 19, 2010

  Pros

  The best defrag program in the world

  Cons

  The best defrag program in the world

  Summary

  The best defrag program in the world

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• VoptXP

  usasmaMay 17, 2005

  Pros

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  Summary

  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Great program - if it wasn't for the removal of startup items when the trial version expires - this would rate all excellents!

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