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About JkDefrag :
JkDefrag is a disk defragmenter and optimizer for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/X64. Completely automatic and very easy to use, fast, low overhead, with several optimization strategies, and can handle floppies, USB disks, memory sticks, and anything else that looks like a disk to Windows. Included are a Windows version, a commandline version (for scheduling by the task scheduler or for use from administrator scripts), a screensaver version, a DLL library (for use from programming languages), versions for Windows X64, and the complete sources.
JkDefrag Features
JkDefrag is based on the standard defragmentation API by Microsoft, a system library that is included in Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, and 2008. Most defragmenters are based on this API, including the free defragmenter that comes with Windows and many commercial defragmenters. Basically all JkDefrag does is send "move this file to that location" commands to the API. JkDefrag does not modify the disk by itself, and is therefore extremely solid.
Defragmentation and optimizing will not only make a harddisk faster, but also lengthen it's life span. The disk will have less work to do and therefore have less wear and tear. Secondly, the sorting optimization strategies (see the "-a" option) will refresh all the magnetic data on your harddisk. However, defragmenting and optimizing is work, so excessive defragmenting and optimizing can actually cause more wear and tear than it prevents. JkDefrag is therefore set for "fast" optimization by default, intended to be used on a daily basis. The other optimizations should only be used occasionally.

Phase 1: Analyze

JkDefrag has to scan all the files on the disk to determine if they are fragmented and where they are. A second step inside this phase will apply the exclude masks and determine which files are SpaceHogs.

Phase 2: Defragment

All fragmented files are defragmented, simply by moving them to the first gap on the disk that is big enough. If there is no gap big enough then the defragmenter will reduce the number of fragments in the file by moving as much of the file as possible into the largest gaps available.

Phase 3: Optimize

• On most harddisks the beginning of the harddisk is considerably faster than the end, sometimes by as much as 200 percent! See the link to "HD Tune" in the "See Also" chapter for a nice little free program to measure your disk. The default JkDefrag optimization strategy therefore moves all files to the beginning of the volume. It is intended for daily use and will simply fill gaps with files from above, very quick and with very little data movement.
• JkDefrag classifies files into 3 zones: directories (zone 1), regular files (zone 2), and SpaceHogs (zone 3). Directories are perhaps the most accessed data on disk, so zone 1 is placed at the beginning of the harddisk. After the directories comes a free area (see below), then zone 2 with regular files, another free area, and then zone 3 with SpaceHogs (less important files that take up a lot of space). The beginning and end of the zones is determined automatically, see the "-f" option.
• A running computer will create and delete temporary files like there is no tomorrow. If the harddisk were completely optimized then the only place for new temporary files would be behind all the other data. Which is rather slow. So JkDefrag maintains a free space of 1% of the total disk space between zone 1 (directories) and zone 2 (regular files), and between zone 2 and zone 3 (SpaceHogs).
• Sorting the files on your disk can give you even more speed. There are several sorting strategies to choose from (see the "-a" options). These are all very slow and intended for occasional use only.
• Windows reserves a percentage of the disk for the MFT (Master File Table), but can place normal files there if the rest of the disk is full. The files will remain there, even when there is enough space again. JkDefrag looks for files in the MFT reserved space and moves them to normal diskspace, making the reserved space available again for the MFT.

JkDefrag 3.36 (468 KB) (31 August, 2008)

JkDefrag 3.35 (453 KB) (27 August, 2008)

JkDefrag 3.34 (455 KB) (01 February, 2008)

JkDefrag 3.33 (455 KB) (03 December, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.31 (454 KB) (02 December, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.30 (453 KB) (30 November, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.29 (403 KB) (16 November, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.28 (397 KB) (02 November, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.27 (396 KB) (02 November, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.26 (393 KB) (19 September, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.25 (393 KB) (16 September, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.24 (391 KB) (03 September, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.23 (390 KB) (31 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.22 (389 KB) (30 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.21 (389 KB) (30 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.20 (389 KB) (29 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.19 (389 KB) (27 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.18 (388 KB) (26 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.17 (371 KB) (25 August, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.16 (321 KB) (22 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.15 (320 KB) (14 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.14 (325 KB) (09 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.12 (322 KB) (06 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.11 (322 KB) (05 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.10 (321 KB) (04 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.09 (321 KB) (02 June, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.08 (313 KB) (20 April, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.07 (308 KB) (25 February, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.06 (287 KB) (21 January, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.05 (258 KB) (07 January, 2007)

JkDefrag 3.04 (255 KB) (25 December, 2006)

JkDefrag 3.03 (237 KB) (15 December, 2006)

JkDefrag 3.02 (236 KB) (13 December, 2006)

JkDefrag 3.01 (195 KB) (07 December, 2006)