User manual DISKTRIX ULTIMATE DEFRAG HOWTO

[. . . ] They pack the data towards the outer tracks of our drive but it's usually an all inclusive affair so that a drive that is almost full still experiences drive fatigue since there is no "order" to the files and no preferential placement of frequently accessed files. However, with UltimateDefrag you have the option of the Archive and High Performance so that you still can get our High Performance Files to the outside tracks and Archive to the inner tracks. When our most and least important files are where you want them then what happens with the remaining files is not as important and they can just be consolidated. So if you have our High Performance requirements and Archive requirements in place then you can use this method to take care of the remainder of our files. [. . . ] I guess the only harm it will do is delay the time to finish Defrag. Just made a note to make sure that we dont perform a silly mistake like this. Archive some of those extraneous Windows XP update files that will never be used again. Look in your Windows folder ­ you will see about 70 folders beginning with $ - these are updates that will never be required again. Get them out of the way! Select Consolidate That's all!That's all! Now just give it some time alone with our PC After completion mine looked something like this. . . Suitable Method For A Typical Home Desktop Computer To obtain the best performance for a typical everyday home desktop computer, we suggest a routine such as this on a weekly basis: Archive Files that have not been accessed in the past 30 days or more. Include file types with . ZIP extension Include file types for other "archive" data ­ this may include photo collections, videos or anything else of that nature Fast Archival ON High Performance: Select the following folders in this order. (remember we can drag the files to change their order) Windows Documents and Settings Any Games That We May Use Program Files Any Data Directories That We Frequently Use This will place data that we rarely access, zip files and other archive file extension types to the inner tracks and out of the way and place your most used files to the outer tracks for rapid OS performance, Program launching and data file loading. Select the Respect Archive and High Performance and then use any of the first four defrag methods. The Consolidate option may be all that we require and will give us the shortest Defrag times since, after it takes care of the "respect" options, simply consolidates the data together in no particular order and filling holes in the data and tightly compacting it. An even faster Defrag can be performed if you select Recency - Last Modified and Option 1 ­ Move Data to Outer Tracks ­ Oldest Data Most Outer and turn OFF high performance. This will sort files in the order they were last modified and therefore system files will pretty much stay in place and only recently changed data files will be defragged and repositioned. On a daily basis we can simply perform a Fragmented Files Only defrag to keep our files defragmented. FAQs How many drives can I defrag simultaniously? Theoritically, there is no limit. But based on performance recommendation is not more than 2 drives at a time. How long should a defrag run take? That is a function of fragmentation degree, the amount of data on your drive and the amount of data that needs to be moved and defragged. Typically on most modern systems allow for about 20 Gb per hour. [. . . ] Generally though, for a day to day defrag, just select consolidate but certainly Respect Archive and use Fast Archive. You will find that your day to day defrags may only take minutes instead of hours resulting in less wear and tear and still giving you vastly improved performance. What single Defrag method will give me the fastest over-all Defrag? Selecting Fragmented Files Only will take the shortest amount of time however this method does also leave your free space frag-mented. For a more comprehensive method that is fast and also consoldiates free space use the Consolidate option. [. . . ]