Interface Overview:

1. Quick Access Button: Located on the second line, it allows you to quickly Defrag the selected disk or Defrag a file or folder. The “Options” feature enables users to customize the General settings of Disk Defrag. This includes configuring Defrag settings (such as Scheduled defrag, Auto defrag, and Boot Time Defrag), specifying Optimize preferences, and managing Excludes.
2. Drive Information: The upper box displays the drive name, file system, capacity, free space, and other relevant details.
3. Analyze and Defrag Buttons: Located below Drive Information, this is a shortcut button for Analyze and Defrag, along with buttons for Pause and Stop operations. You can also check “Turn off PC after defragmentation” here.
4. Fragmentation Details: The lower box shows fragmentation percentages, disk capacity, free and used space sizes, analyzed file amounts, and a list of file fragments that need defragmentation, along with their path information. The top-left tab provides a quick switch button to schedule Boot Time Defrag, access defrag Reports, and configure SSD Optimize settings.

5. Defrag Status: The middle box shows the current defragging disk state. Upon clicking the small square in the disk array, access the “Selected” tab to view detailed information about the stored files. Within the “Selected” list, right-clicking on a chosen file allows for specific move operations.

How to Analyze and Defrag Disk Fragments?

Step 1: Analyze

Select the disks you want to analyze, and then click the “Analyze” button or choose “Analyze” from the “File” option on the first-line button. Disk Defrag will conduct a comprehensive analysis of the disk, displaying detailed information. With a powerful engine, this analysis is remarkably fast, completing within a minute.

Step 2. Defrag

Choose the disks you want to defrag, and then click “Defrag” or select it from the “File” option on the first-line button. The small triangle to the right of “Defrag” opens a menu, allowing you to choose different defrag modes based on your specific requirements.

Differentiation of Defrag Modes:

• Defrag: The basic defragmentation function that organizes only fragmented files.
• Defrag and Optimize (slower, use once a week): This mode relocates less frequently accessed files to the end of the disk, creating space at the front to enhance read and write speeds.
• Defrag and Prioritize Files (slower, use once a week): In this mode, folders and frequently used files are prioritized and moved to the front for optimized access.
• Defrag Freespace: This mode arranges all files towards the front, maximizing available space at the rear for optimal storage capacity.

After defragmentation, Disk Defrag efficiently detects and rearranges fragments on your disk, significantly improving access speed, accelerating application launches, enhancing search speed, shortening system startup times, and boosting overall system performance.

Other Features:

1. Defragmentation of Single Files or Folders:

If you need to defrag a specific file or folder without waiting for the entire drive defragmentation process, Disk Defrag offers the flexibility to do so. This feature is particularly useful when optimizing the performance of installed applications, games, or downloaded videos. Unlike many other defragmentation tools that only allow defragmenting entire drives, Disk Defrag enables you to defrag specific files or folders.

2. Scheduled Defragmentation

Disk Defrag provides automatic PC care with customizable scheduling options. You can set up scheduled defragmentation according to your preferences, along with other customization features. To configure the schedule, click the “Options” button, choose “Schedule” under “Defrag” on the left, select “Run on a schedule,” and define the desired action, frequency, time, and drives. Once you are satisfied with the settings, click “OK.”

3. System Boot File Defragmentation

Disk Defrag supports defragmentation of both FAT 16/32 and NTFS file systems, including system files such as page files, registry hives, hiberfil.sys, and other system-locked files. When Windows fully runs, defragmenting system booting files improves PC boot time.

On the main interface, you can select the “Boot Time Defrag” tab to enable or disable the operation, check specific items, and view the history of Boot Time Defrag. Click “Configure” or “Options” for further settings on the frequency of boot defrag.

4. SSD Optimize

Select a drive in the partition list, right-click, and choose to either check or uncheck [SSD] to designate the drive as an SSD or non-SSD. When an SSD is selected, the SSD Optimize optimization page will appear below. Enable or disable certain system options to optimize your SSD. Hover over these items to view their descriptions.

5. Excluding Specific Files and Folders:

Disk Defrag includes an excluding module that allows you to create an ignore list of files and folders that you do not want to defragment. You can easily add and remove files and folders from this module. To access the Excludes function, click the “Options” button, and then save or remove files as needed. Don’t forget to click “OK” to apply the changes.

6. Automatic Computer Shutdown:

Once the defragmentation process is completed, Disk Defrag can automatically shut down your computer. This feature saves electricity and time, especially when defragmenting multiple drives. To enable automatic shutdown, check the box labeled “Turn off PC after defragmentation.”

7. Integration with Windows Explorer Context Menu:

Disk Defrag offers integration with the Windows Explorer Context Menu. To enable this feature, open Glary Utilities, go to “Menu,” select “Settings,” click on “Context Menu,” and check the “Disk Defrag with Glary Utilities” option. Finally, click “OK” at the bottom of the page.

Note: You can also configure options such as Auto Defrag, Auto Start-up with the operating system, and optimize defrag file size categories from the “Options” menu.

However, please note that if all the drives are solid-state drives, the automatic defrag options will be disabled. Defragging may reduce the lifespan of solid-state drives (SSDs), so it is not recommended to defrag SSDs.

Interface Overview

1. The Above Green Area: shows the windows boot time and how many programs started when windows startup or a user logs in.

2. Left-hand Lower Box: displays a laundry list of programs, including windows startup programs, scheduled tasks, plug-Ins, and some application services with a little information on the process name, usefulness, load time, status, and path.

3. Right-hand Lower Box: shows detailed information on a selected process, such as process name, manufacturer, usefulness, and status on windows boot. You can click the links here to comment on the selected process and give recommendations, click more information to learn the process on our web database, or even edit this selected entry.

Delaying Auto-start Programs at Windows Boot

All the programs that start automatically at the beginning of Windows Startup will be listed out for your reference, including the program icon, product name, description, and company. If an entry is unnecessary to start with Windows boot, right-click and choose “Delay” it, or click “Edit” you can also find “Delay” in the list. Therefore, programs will start in sequence according to the default delay time. The delay interval is set in seconds. The default is 30 seconds, and the maximum interval is 270 seconds.

Deactivating and Deleting Entries

Right-click an entry and choose to disable it, and the program will no longer be started the next time you start Windows. Or click “Edit”. You can also find “Disable this entry” in the list. In this way, you can determine whether the entry is needed.

If something doesn’t work properly the next time you start Windows, all you have to do is “Enable this entry”. If you are certain that you no longer need an entry, you can entirely remove it by right-clicking and choosing “Delete this entry” from the list.

Add Program to Launch Automatically and Schedule the Delay Time

If you wish to add a program to one of the startup folders yourself, click “Add program…” on the page of Startup Programs, or click “Edit” you can also find “Add program…” in the list. Enter the name of the desired application in the dialog and enter the directory path of the program file in the Path/Command Line box. You can use the Browse… button to help you find the file. You may also edit any existing listed items to move them from one location to another, change their program description, or update the command line that is being used to start the item.

Here you can also schedule the delay time as you need. You can set it to auto-start 30 seconds later after windows boots. Therefore, programs will start in sequence according to the delay interval preset by you. The delay interval is set in seconds, the default is 30 seconds, and the maximum interval is 270 seconds. Or you can enter the time constant by yourself.

Delete or Restore a Backup with Undo Changes

If you want to undo all changes you made with Startup Manager in recent days, you need to click “Undo Changes” in the bottom right-hand corner. A dialog will pop up showing you the programs that you’ve changed. According to the days, you can choose to restore or delete these backups that are shown with some information, including operating time, location, program name, and operating status.

Interface Overview

1. The First Line Buttons: quick access button to the “Optimization” or “Options” function.

2. The Upper Black Area: displays the CPU Usage and physical memory usage graph, so you know how much memory you’re using and how much free memory you have.

3. The Lower Box: allows you to manually set the amount of memory you want to free up, optimize, and clear the clipboard.

CPU Usage and Physical Memory Usage Graph

The values of CPU Usage are displayed by percentages with different colors of lines. A graph recording the activity is present, and the color code functions. Memory information is similar to CPU information in that a graph shows the usage of the physical memory. The color of the lines shown in the memory usage graph also corresponds to the different values in the window. The details displayed here contain a maximum and minimum value of memory usage.

How to Enable Auto Optimization

• Under the “Options” tab, checkmark “Enable Auto Optimization”. If you do not wish to have your memory usage optimized automatically, you can disable this function here.
• Under “Optimize automatically when free memory at”, you can specify the free memory level that triggers automatic optimization. This can for example, be set at 50 MB. Under “Increase free memory to”, you can specify how much memory you want to free up.
• If you wish to restore the module to the recommended settings, click Recommended.

Manual Optimization

• If you do not use Auto Optimization, or if you want to free up memory before you start a program that requires a lot of memory, you can go to Manual Optimization.
• Under “Manual Optimization”, you can use the slider to specify how much memory should be improved. Click “Optimize” to free the specified amount of memory. The module will then remove unneeded DLLs and other files from physical memory, which may require a few seconds.

Easy to Clear Clipboard

Under Clipboard, the module shows the current amount of memory occupied by the data in your clipboard. Click Clear Clipboard to free up the memory used by this data.

Recommended Value

For manual optimization, you can make the appropriate optimization under the “Optimization” tab. This tab allows you to set the amount of memory to be optimized when pressing the Optimize button in the middle part of the window. There is also a recommended value by the software which analyzes the amount of memory available on your system and sets an appropriate value under the “Options” tab.

Auto Start Memory Optimizer on Windows Logon

Click the “Options” tab, and find “Load automatically on Windows startup”. If you want to start Memory Optimizer on Windows logon, you can checkup the box before “Load automatically on Windows startup”.

Interface Overview

1. The Upper Red Square: shows how much percentage and size of your registry can be reduced by Registry Defrag.

2. The Lower Red Square: tells you what will happen when you click the Next and Cancel button.

Why need to Defragment the Registry

Registry fragmentation is a similar phenomenon to fragmented hard drives. Your Windows registry can become fragmented over time, occupying more space on your hard disk than necessary and decreasing overall performance, especially when many programs are installed and uninstalled. When programs and other components are removed from the system, they can leave behind data inside the registry. After data is deleted from the registry, the space in the file used by that data is kept until it can be re-used by newly added data. If lots of very small bits of data are deleted, the registry can become very bloated with ‘holes’ where no data will fit. This causes the registry to be larger than necessary, which in turn means it is spread over more hard drive space and hence slower to access.

Registry Defrag can help to analyze the registry and create a new release of it containing the intact data in the correct order. The registry is defragmented, and every structural error is corrected. By defragging the registry, it will rebuild a more linear structure, maximizing program response times and registry access times, saving much memory, and improving boot-up times. This can greatly enhance PC performance and avoid any system freezes and the loss of data.

Registry Defrag involves the following steps:

1. Registry Defrag will check how fragmented your registry is. Before the analysis starts, you will be informed that all other applications must be closed. Click the “Next” button, and you will see a new pop-up window. Please follow these instructions and close all other applications before you continue. You should do so because any changes made to the registry after Registry Defrag has been run are lost after the reboot.

2. You will be able to view the fragmentation report. If there is potential for optimization, you will be told by how much percent and kilobytes the registry size can be reduced.

3. Registry will be defragmented and compacted. Click the “Next” button, a new pop-up window will make sure you want to restart the computer to finish optimization. Registry Defrag must restart your computer for this.