JkDefrag - a unique and handy defrag tool

review from ClifNotes, Jun 2007, permalink Disk Cleanup

What was the first thing I thought when I ran the screen saver version of JkDefrag?

OH NO! I've screwed up my computer ...

Fortunately I was wrong. JkDefrag's interface is just so different than what I expected. It almost looks like one of the many psychedelic screensavers out there.

How well does it work? I really don't know, but it does seem to work. The cool part is how you can set it up as a screensaver. If your screensaver pops on a few times a day, your hard disk should remain fairly well defragged.

The program comes zipped up and there is no installation needed. After you unpack the zip file into a folder, you'll see a few executable files in it that you can run.

JkDefrag.exe
Windows version. This is what most people will use. No installation or configuration necessary, it's ready to run and will automatically process all the mounted, writable, fixed volumes on your computer

JkDefragCmd.exe
Commandline version. Specially designed to be run automatically in the background, or from administrator scripts.

JkDefragScreenSaver.exe + JkDefragScreenSaver.scr
Screen saver version. Move (or copy) these two files to the "system32" folder on your harddisk (usually "c:\Windows\System32\" or "c:\Winnt\System32\"). It will automatically become visible in the list of screensavers as "JkDefrag screensaver" and can be used just like any other screensaver (right-click somewhere on your desktop and select Properties, then select the Screen Saver tab).

Quote from the website
Free (released under the GNU General Public License) disk defragment and optimize utility for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies and USB disks/sticks. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), and versions for Windows X64.



http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/


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