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At-a-glance hard-disk info

This little utility gives you quick, at-a-glance access to your hard disk information, and throws in a few tools so that you can manage your system from one, centralized location. But the lack of a working Help file might not appeal to novices.

Your Free Disk Counter has an easy to navigate user interface. Simply select the disk from a drop-down menu, and the disk type, serial number, and byte space (used and unused) are all displayed. Below that are a few buttons for minimizing the window, and accessing the publisher's Web site. In terms of extras, the program … Read more

Rejoin hard drive fragments

Join your hard drive fragments together into a tight bunch with this freeware. Auslogics Disk Defrag's interface couldn't be any cleaner or easier to use.

Choose a hard drive from an easy-to-read pull-down menu, and Disk Defrag instantly displays the drive's size, and used and free space. The program even displays a pie graph for visual learners. One click starts the defragmentation process. The program's defrag process screen displays another handy visual. A sector map makes it easy to see how much of the drive is fragmented, allocated, or free. As the program churns away, the … Read more

Free utility lets you defrag files solo or in bunches

The disk defragmenter in Windows Vista leaves much to be desired. A couple of months ago, I recommended Auslogics' Disk Defrag as a free alternative. What that program lacks is the ability to defrag just one or a select set of files and folders.

If you use Windows XP, the free Contig program from Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals fame (now owned by Microsoft) lets you ensure that an existing file is stored contiguously rather than fragmented onto different disk volumes. You can also use it to create a file that will remain contiguous.

Why would you want to defragment a … Read more