A Microsoft defragmentation tool which can defrag pagefiles and fragmented registry files.
PageDefrag 2.32 is a freeware registry tweaking app and defragmenter, developed by Microsoft for Windows. It's pretty efficient.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
A Microsoft alternative defragmentation tool
Paging and Registry file fragmentation can be one of the leading causes of performance degradation related to file fragmentation in a system. PageDefrag is software that can help with this problem.
PageDefrag uses advanced techniques to provide you what commercial defragmenters cannot: the ability for you to see how fragmented your paging files and Registry hives are, and to defragment them. In addition, it defragments event log files and Windows 2000/XP hibernation files (where system memory is saved when you hibernate a laptop).
Pagedefrag presented a listbox that tells you how many clusters make up your paging files, event log files, and Registry hives (SAM, SYSTEM, SYSTEM.ALT, SECURITY, SOFTWARE, .DEFAULT), as well as how many fragments those files are in -- Pagedefrag can defragment these files.
Features of PageDefrag
- Boot-time defragmentation: Performs defragmentation during the system boot.
- Cluster mapping: Visualizes the layout of the clusters on a disk.
- Defragmentation: Defrags files on the disk.
- Disk cleaning: Removes junk files from the disk.
- File exclusion: Excludes files from the defragmentation.
- File optimization: Optimizes the organization of the files.
- Fragmentation: Reorganizes fragmented files and folders on the disk.
- Free space consolidation: Consolidates free space to create larger contiguous blocks.
- Logging: Records the activity of the defragmentation.
- Process tracking: Monitors and records system processes.
- Registry defragmentation: Defrags registry hives.
- Scheduling: Automates the process of running the defragmenter at preset times.
- Start-up optimization: Optimizes the start-up process of Windows.
- System tray monitoring: Monitors and displays the status of the disk in the system tray.
- Volume analysis: Analyzes the fragmentation of different volumes.
Compatibility and License
PageDefrag is provided under a freeware license on Windows from hard drive defrag software with no restrictions on usage. Download and installation of this PC software is free and 2.32 is the latest version last time we checked.
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