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Most guides on speeding up Windows XP tell you to do many things, and I’m sure all of those guides tell you to defragment your hard drive once in a while to make Windows XP function faster.

Power Defragmenter for fast defragmentation

The default Windows Defragmenter isn’t a good choice if you want to defragment your computer’s hard drive. The Windows Defrag tool is ridiculously slow, and tests your patience like nothing else can.

Here, I’m going to introduce to you a tool called Power Defragmenter that can be used as an alternative to the default Windows defrag.exe application. Power Defragmenter defrags your hard drive much faster.

Power Defragmenter comes with a GUI and a little, but powerful and fast defrag application called Contig. It runs on most versions of Windows – XP, Vista, 2000.

Faster Defragmentation with Power Defragmenter

Here’s a short, yet effective guide to faster defragmentation using Power Defragmenter:

  • Download the Power Defragmenter fast defrag tool from here
  • Unzip, and run ‘Power Defragmenter GUI’

    • Faster Defragmentation Tool Screenshot

  • You’ve got four options – you can defrag a file, a folder, a hard drive partition or else there’s a so called ‘Power Mode’ Dual Pass advanced defragmentation option.
  • Generally, it’s good to defrag a hard disk partition, so select option 3 and proceed to the next level for defragging your disk.
  • Select the hard disk partition that you want to defragment, and click ‘Defragment’
  • Defragmentation begins, and it’s much faster than it usually is. The Contig.exe window will continuously display status messages indicating the progress of defragmentation.

    • Contig Defrag

  • When defragmentation is complete, you’ll be notified of the total and free disk space, percent of file fragment, and largest extent of free space.

Do let us know in the comments if this tool works for you. Have you noticed a jump performance-wise after a defragmentation on your PC? Have you tried any other tools that help in fast defragging of your hard drive? Tell us in the comments section.

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October 7th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

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  • http://www.techzilo.com/ Sumesh

    Hmm…there are several similar apps.

    I use SpeedDefrag, which defrags at booting.
    Maybe you could have a comparison post?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Sumesh: Sure, in the near future :)

  • http://www.whoismadhur.com Madhur Kapoor

    Cool tool buddy . I am going to use it .

  • http://www.shivaranjan.com Shivaranjan

    For regular defragmentation jobs I use Auslogics Defrag. To defragment a particular file or folder I use Wincontig (I have blogged about that). :)

  • http://indyankk.blogspot.om indyank

    How fast is this tool?

  • http://www.teknobites.com ram

    Looks to be a useful tool, i am using defraggler, it also works well

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Madhur: Do try it.

    @Shivaranjan: Thanks for sharing that info. :)

    @Indyank: People say it’s 10x times faster than Windows Defrag tool.

    @Ram: Oh, I’ll check that one.

  • http://techyantra.net Beta3

    Well why speed up? After converting my filesystem to NTFS and ext3 my defragmentaion time is 3 mins and 0 mins (no need to defragment ext3 :D ) respectively….

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Beta3: Not all people use Linux :D

  • http://www.sizzledcore.com Haris

    This is one of the reasons why I don’t defrag. It takes a lot of time. I’ll give this one a try and see if it really speeds up. Thanks for this cool utility.

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    I defragment only once in a while and that time I use the default one. There are many apps for this.

  • http://www.brownbaron.com/blog/ Brown Baron

    Seems like a good utility. Of course since it’s free, I just have to download and try it hehe.

  • http://www.mysites-advisor.com Ken Xu

    LOL. I never defragment my computer since installation. Should try it now. :p

  • http://alfred.co.in Alfred

    Nice site, another site for my rss reader :D

  • http://www.shankrila.com/tech-stuff/top-15-greasemonkey-scripts-for-gmail-google-reader/ K-IntheHouse

    Shankar, it looks like a very useful tool. I’m gonna try it.

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  • http://techmalaya.com syahid ali

    seems like the “defragmentation mode” option is one this freeware strengths. should try it later.

  • http://www.rahulpatel.in rahul

    how much time it take to defragment a partition ?

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  • http://www.lytebyte.com Joel

    In softpedia, it mentions that thus is designed for 2k,NT and XP. Has anybody tried in Vista yet?

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Haris, Brown, K-Inthehouse, Syahid: Do try it. It works really well.
    @Nirmal: Yup there are many, but this one is just one of them :D
    @Rahul: That depends upon the amount of fragmented files :D
    @Joel: Power Defragmenter does work in Vista :)

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Alfred: Thanks for dropping by, hope to see you around :)

  • http://www.nirmaltv.com Nirmal

    Hey Shankar,
    Busy with studies? No updates recently? :-)

  • http://www.kuanhoong.com/ kuanhoong

    Nice. It has been a long time since the last time I defrag my pc

  • http://www.alltipsandtricks.com/blog Simonne

    It sounds good, Im’ going to give it a try. The default Windows defragmenter takes ages to complete the job.

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com/ Shankar Ganesh

    @Nirmal: Yeah, a bit :)
    @Kuanhoong: You should consider defragmenting your hard disk once in a while :)
    @Simonne: Do try it. This tool is many times faster than the default defrag.exe :)

  • http://www.msn.com Ricky

    hi Shankss,

    This is Ricky, and i am just a freshman on here.. i would like to ask how can i make my internet connection a bit faster, coz im using a dial-up @ 56kbps, is there a download-accelerator installer somewhere on the web that can be gotten for free? yeah, coz i see some installers on the web but apparently there’s an equivalent payment for that one..hehe

  • http://jalaj.net/ Jalaj

    The Windows Defrag tool is ridiculously slow..

    and so is Windows.. :)

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