O&O Defrag Free Edition

O&O Defrag Free Edition is a complex program which can enables individuals to extend their hardware’s life span and improve its performance, by defragging all the existing partitions.

The interface is simple and intuitive, thus allowing both experienced and beginner users to find their way around it, without facing problems. In addition to that, there is even a setup wizard incorporated, so as to guide you through the configuration process.

The UI is comprised of several shortcut buttons and a list of all the partitions present on the HDD, along with details such as name, status, total and fragmented files, size, degree of fragmentation and remaining time. There is also a graphical representation of the clusters present in the analyzed partition and their type (free, fragmented, compressed, allocated etc.).

You can schedule optimizing processes, input the frequency at which to repeat, maximum running time, name, description, disk to analyze, exclude particular directories, check drive(s) before defragmentation and abort upon error.

It is possible to generate status reports and save them to the hard disk, along with information such as start and finish time, total duration, serial number, file system, free and total clusters, number of files and directories and the list goes on.

While processing information, CPU and memory usage is moderate to low, which is to be expected with this type of program.

To sum up, O&O Defrag Free Edition is a piece of software which proves to be useful when it comes to eliminating the fragmentation caused by repeated installing and uninstalling. Time response is good, yet it is important to keep in mind that the optimization process can take a while, depending on the degree of fragmentation, number of files and your computer’s performance.