Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startup and shutdown and sometimes to system failures. Auslogics Disk Defrag is designed for fast optimization of today’s modern hard disks. Get the maximum performance out of your expensive hardware investments. And it’s absolutely FREE.

Hard disks are by far the slowest component in your computer. CPU and memory work much faster than hard disks because they do not have moving parts. Therefore fragmented disks often become a bottleneck of the system performance.

Besides causing slowdowns, fragmentation makes the hard drive disk heads move frequently when reading files which leads to freeze-ups and system crashes. It is important to keep your disks defragmented and optimized as much as possible.

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TreeSize will tell you where precious HDD space has gone to. It can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders.

Each folder can be expanded in Explorer-like style to see the size of its subfolders. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize is working. The results can be printed in a report.

HardDriveIndicator displays a system tray load indicator for your local physical disks.

HardDriveIndicator has a 5 bar resolution for both write or read operations on your HDD.

HardDriveIndicator has a small memory footprint and low CPU utilisation.

HardDriveIndicator auto-calibrates itself to ensure that the output is relative to the disk usage for that session.

HardDriveIndicator is especially useful for situations where the hard drive LED is hidden.

HDDlife - worried about hard-drive failure? Get HDDLife - a real time hard drive monitoring utility with alerts, malfunction protection and data loss prevention functions. This hard-drive inspector is an advanced proactive hard drive failure detection system that controls 100% of hard-drive risks.

HDDLife is S.M.A.R.T. technology based and works both for single PCs and large computer networks. S.M.A.R.T. technology was developed by hard-drive manufacturers to accurately predict hard-drive life span and prevent HDD malfunction.HDDlife is a software that helps you protect your HDD.

HDDLife displays S.M.A.R.T. attributes real time and alerts system administrator if particular hard-drive’s attributes exceed threshold values and being at risk.

The system administrator can then back data up and/or replace endangered hard-drive. HDDLife loads on Windows start, compares new attribute values with the previous values and consumes absolutely no memory.

The program is extremely straightforward no fundamental knowledge or PC or hard-drive technology needed whatsoever. Zero failures during last four years for 100000+ hard-drives monitored!

HDClone copies the complete contents of hard disks and other IDE/ATA/SATA, SCSI, and USB media on a physical level. This allows to create even backups or copies of complete operating system installations smoothly. In combination with the special ‘SafeRescue’ mode of HDClone, this technique is also perfect for rescuing data in case of defective hard disks. Furthermore, HDClone works independent of partition layout, file system and operating system. Thus, it also works with proprietary data formats which could not be accessed otherwise. Besides copying complete drives, it is also possible to apply it to certain partitions only.

HDClone Free Edition supports IDE/ATA/SATA hard disks and is able to copy up to 300 MB/min.

Released : 08 Mar 2006

File size : 3.4 MB

SpeeDefrag is the exclusive freeware program , which optimizes Windows XP defrag. SpeeDefrag will restart your PC, which refreshes the RAM and load just the defrag.exe program.

This imposes minimum load on the system and therefore defragmentation speed is increased.This small software will also shutdown or restart your computer automatically once defrag is over. Also now it supports scheduling of defrag.