Woohoo, I am on a roll. I have yet another defrag program to introduce to you guys. It’s JKDefrag. And it’s Open Source too. Hahaha, I am sure some of your Open Source geeks will be pleased about this. You can download this software and distribute it freely.

Anyhow, JKDefrag uses the standard Windows API to defrag your HDD thus your data should be quite safe. It seems that a lot of commerical “defragers” use the same API as well.  However, JKDefrag is much faster than the Windows Defrag program and it is optimized for everyday use. It allows you to set different defragmentation strategies so you can optimize your data to your heart’s contend. What is also interesting is that it allows you to defrag individual directories or files! So you won’t need to spend hours defraging your entire HDD when all you need is to optimize a certain directory. And you can even use this program as a screensaver. It will run whenever your Screensaver starts and it will display a detailed defragmentation map of your HDD.

JKDefrag allows you to defrag your HDD even when your HDD is full(or near full), unlike most other defrag programs out there. And because it is meant for the causal user, it’s pretty simple to operate and use. You shouldn’t have any problem using this software even if you never touched a defrag software before.

JKDefrag works by analyzing the data on your HDD to determine which files are located at which part of your HDD and figure out how to optimize your data. It will then provide you with the optimization strategy and then start moving your data around. Although it is much faster than your Windows defrag software, for a large HDD, it may take some time to complete. That’s why I recommend the screensaver mode. Let JKDefrag defrag your HDD when you are not around!

Yes, Open Source rocks!

This one is not exactly open source, but it’s free for all. You can download it and use in your office, home or your school without any charge. And what do you use it for? I am sure you know that whenever you write data, your data is randomly placed on your HDD which is not optimized for access (it’s actually optimized for writing). So one part of your data can be far away from the rest of the data. This kind of slows down access to your data because the HDD head needs to move around to get those bits and pieces. What a defrag software does is that it moves the related data together and thus makes access more efficient. And IOBit SmartDefrag is one of the best defrag freeware you can find.

It’s more powerful than the defrag software you find in Windows. And it works continuously and transparently. What this means is that you don’t need to defrag your HDD manually, all you have to do is to install the software and then let it do it’s work. It will try to make your HDD access more efficiently without the need for prompting. This software is designed for modern HDDs which are usually larger and it is optimized to be faster than all the other defrag software. IOBit SmartDefrag uses an efficient algorithm to optimize your system files and this will enable your PC to run at the fastest possible speed. And you won’t need to learn any complicated commands. It’s a very simple to use software, even a beginner shouldn’t have any problem using it.

You have the option to either do a manual defrag or let IOBit SmartDefrag does it’s magic itself. It will do it’s work on the background, continuously defraging your HDD and making sure it is optimized. If you do a lot of installing or uninstalling (or have a lot of data being copied), you should really have this software set to auto mode.

This software is designed for Windows 2000, XP and Vista. Note that it comes with a little advertisement when you load the program but it really isn’t that bad. And if you set to auto mode, you won’t see the advertisement at all. So….