Smart Defrag 5.7

Disk fragmentation is one of the most common causes of computer problems such as slowness, instability and even system crashes. Fortunately, there are free tools like Smart Defrag, which is a novel system optimization tool that specializes in disk defragmentation. The program offers various methods to defragment your disk(s), each one designed for a specific type of scenario.

The program's main window is divided into various sections, being the most functional the first one, "Disk Defrag". It allows you to select whether you want to defragment entire drives, specific Windows apps or specific files and folders, or any combination of them. Once you made your selection, you can start the process by simply clicking on a button, however, you can also opt for other alternatives like Analyze, Fast Defrag, Defrag & Optimize, Large File Defrag, Free Space Defrag, and Defrag & Prioritize Files. In this section of the program you can also enable the boot-time defragmentation and the disk cleanup, which performs a complete disk analysis in order to find and remove useless files so that you can recover the wasted disk space.

The next section of the program is titled "Boot Time Defrag", and that title is perfectly self-descriptive. It's very advisable that you periodically perform a boot-time defragmentation on your system, as this process analyzes and optimizes some system files that are impossible to manipulate while Windows is running. You can enable or disable some options like MTF, page files, and hibernation files defragmentation. Finally, there is one more section of the program titled "Game Optimize", and it offers a very novel and unique function - defragmenting your game files. Of course, this feature is especially loved by gamers, who need to provide one or more game files for the operation. There is a fourth section of the program titled "Action Center", but its only purpose is encouraging you to download and/or buy other software tools developed by IObit.

Besides all the already mentioned, there are still a couple of extra tools offered by Smart Defrag, like the "Disk Health" tool, which monitors your hard disk in real time and warns you if any kind of problem is detected. Besides, I've got to mention that there are multiple functions and options around the program's interface that are purely informative and will work only after you migrate to the Pro edition of Smart Defrag. Apart from that, I would recommend any PC user to install and periodically execute this program, in order to keep his/her PC running fast, stable and in optimal conditions, and protect his/her disk.