Auslogics Disk Defrag Touch

[evilfantasy]

Auslogics has has always been a top developer in my book and they have now stepped up to the plate with Auslogics Disk Defrag Touch. This is designed for touch screen but also works as desktop software for Windows 7 and 8. 100% free.

I don't have a touch screen and it works just like a Windows 8 app. In desktop mode move your mouse to the top of the screen to Close the app.

I don't defrag very often. HDD's are much more efficient these days and to me they don't seem to need nearly as much maintenance as they used to. I may not keep it but I enjoyed checking it out.

Full touch screen support - Tap, swipe or slide to perform the tasks you have used a mouse for – perfect for your touch-screen PC!

Boost game & app speed - Optimize your favorite games or other frequently used programs for smooth and fast performance.

Receive awards & have fun - Defragging has never been more fun – earn tokens, get awards and rise to Supreme Power as you use the app.

[DaveLembke]

Boost game & app speed - Optimize your favorite games or other frequently used programs for smooth and fast performance.

Sadly not XP Compatible    ... For some reason Windows XP systems with World of Warcraft installed ( around 25GB of game files ) has a 6GB section that is fragmented in red according to the Windows XP Defrag tool, yet multiple attempts to defrag this haven't resolved it.

Fortunately the game operates correctly, but the heavy fragmentation isnt ideal for system/game optimization.

Things I have tried:

1.) Normal Defrag of C: with 45% free space
2.) Move game from C: to external HDD, then defrag C: and fragmentation is gone, reintroduce the game back to C: and fragmentation is back for 6GB of data. The 6GB of data seem to be large files that make up the core of the game files. ( My thought here was that removal of the 25GB would leave a hole behind, and the defrag would smooth over this hole in continuous data, then adding the game back, it should fill into available open blocks and be less fragmented. But this is not the case.)

* I pretty much have lived with this as oh well it is what it is. The good thing is that this is no problem with the systems I have that have SSD's where fragmentation isnt a concern.

[patio]

The original Auslogics works fine on XP...solid app...been using it 5 + years now since i found it.
That is unless your runnin touch screens on XP...

[camerongray]

Interesting to see someone releasing this.  I don't really see how it will last - Laptops with touch have a touchpad that people will likely use more than the touchscreen and tablets without a touchpad will tend to run on SSDs therefore won't require defragmentation.

[evilfantasy]

HDD's are much more efficient these days and to me they don't seem to need nearly as much maintenance as they used to.

Interesting to see someone releasing this.  I don't really see how it will last - Laptops with touch have a touchpad that people will likely use more than the touchscreen and tablets without a touchpad will tend to run on SSDs therefore won't require defragmentation.

I agree but it will take years and years for SSD to become the norm. Just think how many billions of non-SSD drives have been and are still being produced.