DiskTuna

When you want to defragment your hard drive, you can either use the built-in Windows utility or download a more complex application, but few of them strike the right balance between functionality and ease of use.

DiskTuna offers an alternative, in the form of a lightweight and simple-to-use program designed to optimize and defragment your drives. It is very unobtrusive and even allows you to create desktop shortcuts for configured jobs.

It is pretty clear from the get-go that DiskTuna is not the most complex program out there, but this is certainly not a bad thing. It keeps things simple and does its job well, but still offers quite a few advanced features.

The application utilizes the Windows API and other high-level components to process data, and it is capable of defragmenting, optimizing or compacting your partitions.

It uses an HDD temperature monitor to prevent your disk from getting too hot, and it allows you to use the VSS safe-mode to reduce interaction between defragmentation and shadow copies.

If you wish to perform a certain action on a regular basis, having to configure it each time is less than ideal. Thankfully, with DiskTuna, you can save the current job’s parameters to a new desktop shortcut, and then just double-click it to get things started.

The program can be run in several priority modes, so as to avoid taking up too many system resources. Also, it can be sent to the system tray, so it should not get in your way.

When an operation has been completed, the application can shut down your computer automatically.

Overall, DiskTuna is a great choice for users who need a simple, no-frills application that can help them optimize their partitions. It requires no specialized knowledge, and it allows you to launch a job with a couple of mouse clicks, after which it runs quietly in the system tray while you perform other tasks.