Specification Sheet

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Functionality
Automatic and scheduled background defragmentation
Following a one-time intuitive configuration, O&O Defrag has been optimized to function fully
automated and without any further activity on the part of the user. Over the Job Assistant, the user
can enter his settings for scheduling defragmentation. If the exact moment for defragmentation is
not crucial, it’s possible to setup a fully automatic, periodic and even highly granular defragmentation.
Defragmentation can then be run with a minimum strain on resources and still achieve excellent
defragmentation values.
Defragmenting while the user is not working on his system is especially recommended for desktop
computers. This is why we developed screensaver mode – whenever the screensaver is on,
O&O Defrag optimizes drives and immediately stops defragmenting as soon as the user resumes
working on his system.
The initial defragmentation is usually the one that takes the longest. As a result of a clear division
between programs and user data, unnecessary follow-up defragmentation can be effectively
avoided. Successive defragmentation will then run much quicker and consume less system resources.
O&O Defrag’s consumption of system resources can be minimized even further if a system is required
to constantly run at maximum capacity. The O&O ActivityMonitor recognizes the amount of demand
O&O Defrag is placing, and will avoid all activities that could burden the system unintentionally.
Defragmentation will then be restarted whenever the system’s capacity is able to allow it.
O&O Defrag can also be configured to start defragmenting when a system’s level of fragmentation
exceeds a certain level. This is especially useful for very large drives or very extensive file systems.
As a result, the system load caused by O&O Defrag can be minimized even further because
defragmentation will only be run when it is really needed.
Theoretically, the defragmentation tool integrated in Windows also runs an automic optimization
at regular intervals. Starting with Windows Vista, the starting time for defragmentation is set for
every Wednesday at 1:00 AM. If the computer is not on at this time, there will be, understandably,
no defragmentation run.
Windows currently does have a setting for scheduling the time for defragmentation. If the
computer is not turned on at this time, defragmentation can be set to run at a later time, or the
scheduled defragmentation can be canceled. The biggest problem remains, however, that Windows
can also begin its defragmentation at that moment when a system’s maximum resources are
needed. The productivity of various programs can be reduced considerably when a defragmentation
is simultaneously being run.
It‘s not just O&O Defrag‘s indisputably superior and yet easy to use scheduling and job-planning
features that make it so remarkable. The quality of its results, in particular its long-term proactive
reduction of new fragmentation is tangible and measurable proof of why it stands far above
rudimentary defragmentation tools.