The reason is that the built - in
disk defragmenter in Windows won't start automatically and won't keep a tab on how much the disk is fragmented.
If you want to defragment your hard drive on your own, just open the Disk
Defragmenter tool and click the button to run a defragmentation operation.
Disk
Defragmenter runs on a schedule, but you can also defragment your hard disk manually.
UltraDefrag is an open source disk
defragmenter for Windows has been optimized to complete the job quickly, reliably and achieve best results possible.
While the built - in Disk
Defragmenter does its job well, some prefer to use third - party -LSB-...]
In my opinion, using a safe registry cleaner or
registry defragmenters occasionally might be good house - keeping, but do not expect any real performance gains after using a Registry Cleaner!
Registry
Defragmenters help in removing such bloated registry hive & empty spaces, and compacting the registry.
To fight this natural fragmentation process, Windows 10/8 includes a built - in Disk
Defragmenter which does a pretty decent job.
The Disk
Defragmenter Tool runs as a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the computer.
In this situation, you might want to open the disk
defragmenter tool and perform a scan to see if you need to run a manual defrag program.
While you may use a registry defragger, as a matter of «good house - keeping», one must be very careful in selecting a good safe
Registry Defragmenter.
The Disk
Defragmenter runs as a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the computer.
But do not expect any real performance improvement, after using
registry defragmenters — especially in the later version of Windows like, Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8.
Of course, nowadays, you don't really need to do it manually as the built - in Windows 8/10
defragmenter does a good job at defragmenting files in the background whenever your system is idle.
Windows operating systems include a disk
defragmenter.
In Windows XP and 7, click the Start button and, under All Programs, go to Accessories System Tools and choose Disk
Defragmenter.
On Windows 8, the Disk
Defragmenter is now named the Optimize Drives tool.
You don't need to run an SSD optimization program like you'd run a disk
defragmenter.
Some software companies claim that their tools can «optimize» SSDs, just as disk
defragmenters could speed up mechanical drives.
The storage sectors on an SSD have a limited number of writes — often fewer writes on cheaper drives — and defragmenting will result in many more writes as
your defragmenter moves files around.
Its other modules include Disk Cleaner, Disk Usage Analyzer, Miscellaneous Tools, Registry Cleaner, Registry
Defragmenter, Startup Manager, System Information, Track Cleaner, Uninstall Program, Windows Secret & Restore Backup.
Personally speaking I hardly ever use a Registry
Defragmenter; maybe once in a 6 months or so!
Registry
Defragmenters have become popular — although not as much as registry cleaners!
Starting with Windows Vista, the built - in Windows Disk
Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 8 and Windows 7, and is considered to be much better than its predecessor Windows XP.
Should you choose to use a Registry
Defragmenter, remember to create a system restore point first or back up the registry using RegBack.
The Disk
Defragmenter tool is a built - in Windows OS utility that defragments drives, by running a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the compute.
You can fix this by running the Disk
Defragmenter tool included with Windows — the Disk Defragmenter runs automatically on a schedule, anyway.
To use Windows inbuilt Disk
Defragmenter utility, navigate to Accessories folder in Start menu, then Click on System Tools and run Disk Defragmenter.
You can check for yourself by opening up Disk
Defragmenter and seeing the schedule there, as well as the last run and fragmentation levels.
It comes with other value added features (
Defragmenter, Startup Management, and Automatic Backup) with the ability to enhance system performance.
«Auslogics Disk
Defragmenter is included among the programs being detected... it is NOT a «False Positive» on MBAM's part.
You'll find options like a file cleanup utility, disk
defragmenter, and a tool for restricting startup programs — all tools that come built into Windows.
IObit Smart Defrag is a free, light, smart and stable disk
defragmenter, provides users with efficient defragmentation and optimization of hard drives to enhance disk stability and PC performance.
Though with Vista, the built - in disk
defragmenters in Windows operating system started using less of resources and helped in optimizing the system drives without giving you problems, there is still a reason for using third party disk defragmenters like Super Easy Live Defrag or SmartDefrag.
Thus, the need for disk
defragmenters, or rather, disk optimizers, that keep an eye on fragmentation of the hard disk drives and start defragmenting whenever necessary.
Furthermore, the software comes with some powerful tools like disk
defragmenter, registry cleaner, restore point manager and many more.
With the increase in size of hard disks and with the majority of people shifting away to use third party disk
defragmenters, Microsoft came up with a better Windows Defragmenter in Windows Vista — and further improved it in Windows 7 8.
The new Windows
Defragmenter is totally overhauled, and you will find it to be unexpectedly fast.
The Tune - Up category of the software's Tools section has a slew of utilities that range from a disk
defragmenter and a Registry cleaner to a Registry - recovery app and a way to eliminate duplicate files.
Instead of writing a defragmentation scheduler program that always runs in the background and waits to defragment your hard disks Windows sets up a scheduled task that automatically runs
the defragmenter in the background at a specific time.
Also note that there is
no defragmenter in Chrome OS, so if the drive gets «clogged» up you'll need to do that on another computer, too.
The company teased a number of software features for the Mate 8, including voice control, a power - saving firewall, a feature called eRecovery that we assume is some type of system restore, and even
a defragmenter.