Drive manufacturers have improved the performance of disks over the years and this means that less time is wasted accessing fragmented files than it used to. The large capacity of drives also helps to reduce fragmentation too because there's always lots of free space. The result is that fragmentation isn't as big an issue as it used to be, at least not on new PCs.
Not everyone has a brand new PC with the latest 2Tb disk drive or ultra fast SSD (solid state disk) though and many people struggle to keep an old computer running with limited processing power, memory and disk drive. If you are one of them, then you might be interested in UltraDefrag 5.01 disk defragmenter.
It has some useful features and the .01 in the version number means that it has had a bug fix patch - never use version v1.0 or any x.0 release of software, wait for the bug fix release.
Another useful feature is that it doesn't add any startup programs or add any services. If you are trying to speed up an old PC then adding software that is loaded on startup is counter productive.
UltraDefrag lists the disk drives and you can select one then analyse it. A disk usage map shows used and free parts of the disk, fragmented and not fragmented areas. The options are: defragment, quick optimisation, full optimisation, and optimise MFT. You can choose what to do when defragmentation is done such as shut down the PC, restart, go into standby mode and so on.
There is also an option to run UltraDefrag when the PC starts, before Windows loads, and this enables it to defragment files that are normally locked because Windows is using them.
UltraDefrag 5.01 is not the best disk defragmenter, but it is a good choice for old PCs. It is free, it requires just 1Mb of disk space and doesn't use any memory or processing time when not running. You just run it when you need it.
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