O&O Defrag 10 Professional will make your computer faster
Posted on Feb 24, 2008 by
Paul White![](http://blog.whitesites.com/blogs/medium/633394797383665618.jpg)
I recently did a little cleaning of my workstation. Typical stuff like
deleting old files, data backups, and of course defrag. Afterwards
however my computer just didn't seem as fast as usual. I was using the
built in
Windows XP defrag program. Which is ok, but unless your
system is heavily defraged you really won't notice a difference in
performace. I had used another after market program before, but I
wanted to see if I could find something even better. I heard about
O&O Defrag. So I gave it a try and wow what a difference!
If you want to take my word for it and give it a try they have a trial version you can download off their website
http://www.oo-software.com/home/en/download/current/oodefragpro/They also have a version that is specifically designed for
Windows Server 2003. I installed this on my
VPS box and ran it to help speed things up on my client's
websites.
Keep in mind that I ran this program right after running the
windows XP defrag. It was pretty sad what the native
Windows XP defrag does not do. Here is a screen shot of O&O defrag cleaning my system using the Complete / Name Defrag method.
![](http://blog.whitesites.com/blogs/large/633395309773623156.jpg)
This method is the most intense, and takes the longest. If you don't have hours to spare use the Space Defrag. This is much quicker and does a good job, but just not as good as the Complete / Name. After it was done I immediately noticed a difference. When opening programs like Outlook or thunderbird you will notice a much quicker response. All those thousands of emails can slow your system down alot when they get fragmented. Below is a screen shot of the end result.
![](http://blog.whitesites.com/blogs/large/633395321290103111.jpg)
The software is free to try for 30 days and has no functionality left out for the trial version. My only gripe about this program is it has a service that will run in the background to keep things defragmented. I would prefer a defrag program that is run on demand only, leaving my system resources free for other things.
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