JkDefrag GUI: Windows screen saver lets you defragment your hard drive

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JkDefrag GUI: Windows screen saver lets you defragment your hard drive

by Brad Linder Jul 31st 2007

JkDefrag is a powerful open source disk defragmentation tool. But it's a command line utility, which isn't everyone's cup of tea.

That's where JkDefrag GUI comes in. As you could probably guess from the "GUI," the program is a graphical user interface for JkDeFrag. The utility makes it easy to customize your defragmentation tasks, with a variety of options.

You can analyze your hard drive usage, defragment, and/or arrange files on the disk. You can schedule regular defragmenting tasks. And our personal favorite trick is that you can set jkDefrag as your screen saver. When your computer's been idle for a few moments the utility will kick in and start optimizing your hard disk. Seeing as most monitors don't really need "saving" these days, it's a pretty good use of your spare CPU cycles.

You can run JkDefrag GUI as a standalone application, or use the options under the installer tab to install the program and screen saver.

[via freeware genius]

Tags: defrag, defragment, jkdefrag, jkdefrag gui, JkdefragGui

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Marc Savoy said 8:10PM on 7-31-2007

Download Squad deserves special credit for out-doing its usual, everyday incredible best keeping us all on the very cutting edge of the best products, services
in having provided the link to JkDefrag.
Thank you very much Download Squad.

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