O&O Defrag defragments your hard disks and thereby optimizes the speed with which they can be accessed. With every write process, the file system splits files into multiple pieces and then scatters them across free sectors of the hard disk. Because of this, accessing these files requires that they be found and then merged. Searching for them requires physical movement of the read-write head and this costs time. Once files are combined and organized in consecutive order, the time needed for accessing them is reduced dramatically. This speeds up not only the read-write processes but saves wear on the hard disk’s mechanics.
In order for use O&O Defrag, the current version will have to be installed on the target system. If this is not already the case, O&O Syspectr provides a fully automatic installation. Confirm when you want to use it and wait a moment until installation is completed. Once that’s done, you’ll see a preview of your drives and you can then carry out any desired actions.
Analysis will examine partitions on the target computer and provide an overview of their current level of fragmentation as well as the distribution of files on each partition. Red blocks symbolize fragmented files, blue blocks defragmented.
After you start defragmentation for a partition, you’ll receive status updates at regular intervals and so be able to follow how much progress the defragmentation is making.
You can use the “Stop“ feature to stop an analysis or defragmentation. In just a few seconds, the action will be ended.
Select the partition (s) for which you want to create a defragmentation job.
Set whether the task should be carried out once on a specific date or whether it should be done weekly on one or more / all days of the week. Here you can also specify whether the job should be carried out on the next possible date if a start was not possible on the scheduled date (e.g. because the computer was switched off).