Defraggler is a
freemium
Freemium, a portmanteau of the words "free" and "premium," is a pricing strategy by which a basic product or service is provided free of charge, but money (a premium) is charged for additional features, services, or virtual (online) or physical (o ...
defragmentation utility developed by
Piriform Software
Piriform Software Ltd is a British software company based in London, owned since 2017 by Avast which itself become part of NortonLifeLock (now Gen Digital) in 2022. The company develops cleaning and optimisation tools for Microsoft Windows, macO ...
, which can defragment individual files or groups of files on computer memory systems. Defraggler runs on
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
; it has support for all versions since
Windows XP. It includes support for both IA-32 and x64 versions of these operating systems.
Overview
Defraggler can defragment individual files, groups of files (in a folder) or an entire
disk partition, either by the user's command or automatically on a schedule. It supports
FAT32,
NTFS, and
exFAT. It can also be installed as a
portable application on a
USB flash drive. Defragmentation of
RAID disks is also supported, although no details are supplied.
Defraggler was given a 5/5 star rating from
Softpedia. In
Lifehacker
''Lifehacker'' is a weblog about life hacks and software that launched on January 31, 2005. The site was originally launched by Gawker Media and is currently owned by G/O Media. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including: Microsoft W ...
's Hive Five for Best Disk Defragmenter, Defraggler received first place.
See also
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CCleaner
CCleaner (, originally Crap Cleaner), developed by Piriform Software, is a utility used to clean potentially unwanted files and invalid Windows Registry entries from a computer. It is one of the longest-established system cleaners, first launc ...
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Recuva
Recuva () is an undeletion program for Windows, developed by Piriform Software. It is able to undelete files that have been marked as deleted; the operating system marks the areas of the disk in which they were stored as free space. Recuva can r ...
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Comparison of defragmentation software
References
External links
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Utilities for Windows
Windows-only freeware
Defragmentation software
2008 software
Piriform Software
Gen Digital software
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