Technical information

Settings
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Settings for the automatic optimization
All write accesses and newly added files are monitored. Newly fragmented files are automatically defragmented as
soon as they are no longer being accessed by the user. This basically ensures your system’s full performance capacity
while continually preventing new fragmentation. Furthermore, a defragmentation of all files will be performed at regular
intervals which will minimize existing fragmentation and put little strain on available resources.
The normal and regular use of your computer could lead to particular files being accessed very often. These files can be
your registry database, container files of download programs, or Temporary Internet Files. These files are then defrag-
mented during the regular defragmentation session without the user having to guide the process.
You can also influence the behavior of the automatic optimization heavily:
You can decide between quick and thorough defragmentations on hard disks. The quick defragmentation employs the
OPTIMIZE/Quick method, the thorough defragmentation the OPTIMIZE method.
For the first time, O&O Defrag enables you to optimize all makes of SSD drives. Thanks to regularly scheduled ATA
TRIM commands, an SSD will be kept informed of those hard disk areas that are available for new data. Instead of con-
tinuing to save the contents of data that’s no longer needed, the SSD can now use those freed areas for a drive-internal
optimization of its data management. As a result, the SSD is able to process accesses significantly faster, and wear
out on flash chips is kept to a minimum.
Notes for the automatic optimization: