Keep your drive in top condition using Uniblue DiskRescue 2009

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Keep your drive in top condition using Uniblue DiskRescue 2009

September 19, 2008 in Software | Permalink

After months of using your PC, the drive will become fragmented. This means your apps will start more slowly, files will take longer to load and your system may feel more sluggish. The solution is to use a disk defragmentation tool that will analyse your drive and re-arrange the contents so they are in more of a systematic order, enabling your computer to find the contents more swiftly. There are two types of defragmentation tools, the old-school that will spend ages going through your entire drive, whilst you have to do something away from your PC, whilst it re-arranges the content. The other is a more modern disk defrag tool that will reside in the background, monitor CPU usage, then perform the defragmentation when you are not using your machine. As soon as you start using, it will pause automatically.

Uniblue DiskRescue 2009, a rather oddly named application, is an old-school disk defragmentation tool that will spend time going through your drive sorting the content. You can schedule a defragmentation or leave it running overnight, but it's a fairly basic app that, sadly, can be handled by freeware apps. Not one of the better Uniblue apps.

Uniblue DiskRescue 2009 link.