Use your computer for some time and you'll find that it takes longer to boot, applications launch more slowly and it just feels far more sluggish. This performance downgrade is partly due to your drive(s) becoming fragmented, so it takes far longer to find, locate and open files from your drive. Bad fragmentation can lead to a shorter drive lifespan, which isn't good for your long-term system. However, you can get around this using disk defragmentation software, although the free apps generally are limited so you have to defragment one drive partition at a time.

Auslogics Disk Defrag v2 is one of the better free drive defragmentation tools and the latest version now enables you to defragment more than one drive (or drive partition), simultaneously. Better still, the defragmentation process is 30% more efficient than the previous version, so the task will be over more quickly.

Auslogics Disk Defrag link.

20 May 2009