Smart Defrag Portable 1.5 has been released. Smart Defrag is a powerful disk defragmenter with a fast engine and an easy to use interface. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It's freeware for personal and business use.
Smart Defrag is a trademark of IOBit and is packaged for portable use with permission.
Features
- Exceptionally Efficient Defragmentation - Smart Defrag has the world's fastest defragmenting engine. It's been specially designed for modern, large hard drives, so it eliminates long waiting time.
- Optimize Disk Performance - Smart Defrag doesn't just use simple defragmentation. It also streamlines your file system, places the frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk, enabling your computer to run at top speed with the most stability.
- Always-on to Work Automatically - Smart Defrag can be set to work automatically and quietly in the background, so it continually and constantly keeps your computer fragment-free.
- Extremely Easy to Use - Its intuitive interface makes Smart Defrag the ideal utility for complete computer novice.
- Data Safe and Reliability Guaranteed - Besides, unlike other "Automated" Defragmenters, Smart Defrag does NOT constantly perform analysis and defrag, which does damage your hard drive and shorten its life. Smart Defrag has a "Safe Intelligence" technology that can assure the health of your disk by deciding When and How to execute defragmentation.
- Free Defragmenter Forever - Smart Defrag is 100% freeware. Download, use, and update it absolutely free for your personal computers, business or enterprise servers –– it won't cost you a penny.
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PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Smart Defrag Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
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Thanks
Thanks for your work on this JW and welcome to the development team
As mentioned, I cleaned up those couple bugs and recompiled with PAL 2.1b2 to get the proper name to show up in UAC. I did language switching, too, but it won't work yet due the language filenames themselves being localized (Chris is working on a fix for PAL).
Cant Uninstall
Nice looking app,
only i dont see my own flash drive to defrag (someting i would like)
nor i cant uninstall the app ( Uninstall of %APPNAME% failed )
maybe some1 got sugestions to do 1 or the other
don't do it
Defragging flash drives is not only unnecessary, it will decrease the life of your drive. Defragging is only useful for hard drives, not electronic memory storage.
This is probably why the flash drive doesn't even show up.
https://portableapps.com/node/6781
https://portableapps.com/node/22833
Okay
Okay
1. Flash drive are not supported for this program from what I can see from the program and from the official site, it dose not give support for flash drives. Sorry for that.
2. PortableApps.com Applications do not need to be uninstalled the can be deleted like any other file.
But just in case what do you mean by
You can "uninstall" by
You can "uninstall" by right-clicking in the menu and selecting uninstall. I don't know under what circumstances, but sometimes it'll give that error stating that the "uninstall" failed.
Yes I also get the same
Yes I also get the same thing.
Could this be because PAL 2.1b2 was used?
No Need to be Sorry
As BuddhaCha stated, Flash drives probably aren't supported for a good reason, so I don't think there's anything to apologize for. People shouldn't be trying to defrag their flash drives, simple as that.
I like the real-time background defragging feature of this app, a rare feature among free defraggers. I tested this during the development phase and it seems a good quality apps. Thanks for bringing it to PA.c!
Disabled
The ability to defrag a flash drive can be enabled in Options. It is disabled by default because you should *not* be doing this.
If Uninstall failed, it's because a file was locked. Could you check with Unlocker or similar to find out which one?
Compare & Contrast
What is the difference between Smart Defrag Portable and JkDefrag Portable?
Not Much Difference
Well JKDefrag is really a Windows 32bit console application (it doesn't have a grahpical user interface), but Travis wrote a GUI for it. SmartDefrag is a full Windows applications with a GUI. From that perspective it's a little more user friendly and polished.
However, from a functional standpoint there seems to be little to choose between them. JKDefrag's optimization/defrag processes are a little more transparent because the author took some time to explain them in detail on his website, but the products are functionally equivalent.
SmartDefrag has a slight edge with it's always-on defrag that runs in the background, intelligently defragging your harddrive while your computer is on. It typically runs when your computer is idling or using very little resources. I've used it as I've worked at the computer and haven't noticed any performance loss. Naturally, you also have the option of not running this and just performing on-demand defragmentation.
So I think it really just comes down to personal preference. You'd really have to test both extensively, side-by-side to see which is "better". I'm guessing there wouldn't be much in it.
Thanks
Darkbee,
Thank you for the information. You seem a little more familiar with Defragging software than I am, so may I ask you one more question? How would your compare these two portable applications with an installed application such as PerfectDisk (in terms of effectiveness)? Thanks again.
My Two Cents
I'm familiar with them because I've used them and made casual observations about how well they work or not. However, measuring the relative effectiveness of them is actually pretty difficult, and to get a true measure you would need some kind of scientific test. For the most part I think they rely on Windows APIs, so they all work off of the same base functionality that is part of the operating system itself. Obviously, how those APIs are implemented can vary and consequently some will perform better than others. However, this is much for muchness.
I'm not familiar with PerfectDisk, but perhaps you're really asking two questions in one:
For number 1 I would respond that yes, some freeware/open source software is of questionable quality, but then so is some commercial software. To support my statement I would cite anti-virus software of which there are some notable free options that are just as effective if not more so then their commercial counterparts. Same applies here in my opinion.
For number 2, I would make a case that portable versions are actually better since you can run them independently of the drive you are trying to defrag. It means that the defrag/optimization can run more thoroughly or completely. The key point is that you don't lose anything by running a defrag program portably. It doesn't somehow diminish its effectiveness, with the possible exception of if you try to defrag the flash drive that the portable defragger is on, which you shouldn't be doing anyway.
I don't claim to be an expert on the subject but I've been using defraggers long enough to know what works and what doesn't. The default Windows defragger for example, doesn't.
Free Defragmenter Forever
I don't mean to be one of those guys but I hate that last bullet point. When I see something like this I assume it means GPL which would guarantee rights to the current version of the software code forever. I came close to tainting my portable apps install after taking pains to purify it. Luckily I double checked the bottom of the download page. I do wish there was some easy way to know what is open source from the news page. It would save me a few clicks every so often.
5 Locations
This is clearly mentioned in multiple locations. The end of the first paragraph of both the news story and the app's homepage says "It's freeware for personal and business use." The news story is categorized as "Freeware Release" which appears at the bottom right of each news story before the comments. And the page has the license detailed under Download Details. Additionally, "(Freeware)" appears after the app name on both the main Portable App Directory page and the Utilities sub-page. This is consistent with all other freeware releases.