Is your system slow? It’s likely your hard drive is suffering from fragmentation which will significantly impact the overall performance of your system. Fragmentation occurs incrementally, so it happens slowly it can be hard to detect.
Fragmentation causes general disk performance to reduce, causing boot up time, application loading, file loading or saving to be severally impacted.
The problem is easily resolved by using Uniblue DiskRescue. DiskRescue checks the health of the disk, and resolves disk fragmentation, it can even do it on the fly as you work. Uniblue have once again delivered on a very useful tool for keeping drive performance up, and fragmentation down.
Learn more about disk fragmentation»Here are some of the key features of the product
- Powerful disk defrag engine
- Live defragmention as you work
- Defrag scheduler
- Live Update
- Support
We’ve calved up Uniblue DiskRescue into its key features and areas, and for each feature we’ve given a usefulness rating.
Check out the usefulness ratings chart here»Powerful Disk Defrag Engine 
DiskRescue can very efficiently defragment your computer’s hard drive, therefore improving system performance. It works to re-organise non-contiguous files, and positions files where they can be accessed the fastest and bringing back together the broken and fractured files into contiguous spaces.
DiskRescue lists the number of files which remain fragmented and provides a hard drive status indicator advising if the drive needs defragmenting.
Ongoing defragmention on the fly 
DiskRescue can be set to automatically defrag your drive. The auto defrag feature kicks in after five minutes and quckly fixes any fragmented files making sure that you never suffer disk fragmentation induced system performance losses again.
This is a great feature to use, because it keeps the files in perfect condition, proactively keeping your system running at optimum.
Defrag Scheduler
There are a number of different settings here which allow you to specify when you want DiskRescue to run a degrag. You can choose any drive, and day or frequency. DiskRescuse can also be set to warn you before it begins a scheduled defrag.
Live Update
DiskRescue includes LiveUpdate which, automatically scans for updates to your DiskRescue software and components
Support
Uniblue provide several levels of support
- Downloads of new features
- Premium support, provided by dedicated technical support professionals
- Newsletter tutorials giving tips and help
Lets look at the problem in more detail, whilst avoiding too much geek speak. Here’s a scenario. Think of a filling cabinet. Now imagine the filing cabinet is very disorganised. When it comes to filing documents, they get flung into any old folder or draw in the cabinet.
Its easy to see what problems this would cause if someone asked you to locate a certain document. Taking it a stage further, imagine the files are actually split into parts, and those parts are spread across the different draws in the filing cabinet. Maybe one part would be in the first draw and the other part in the fourth draw. Suffice to say, its a shambles, and takes way longer than it should to retrieve documents.
So how does that equate to your computers hard drive? Computers are smart, and very fast, but when it comes to filing things away, fragmentation occurs due to the way file systems (NTFS or FAT) are structured.
So how do computer files get into such a mess? Look at this scenario:
- Say you delete a file on your computer, maybe the file is one megabyte in size
- You later save a file, which is two megabytes in size
- There is no more contiguous free space on the drive so the file gets split into parts
- One part goes where you deleted the old file (one megabyte)
- The other part of the file has to find a new space, which could end up anywhere, possibly at the other end of the disk
Starting to get a picture? So now when you try to access that two megabyte file which you just saved, it has to collect it in two chunks, from two completely separate locations on the disk. Multiply this by a few hundred thousand files and it starts to have a significant impact on the performance of your entire system. This is a very common problem, especially when installing and uninstalling software, or creating and deleting files.
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