Defragmenting your hard drives occasionally is a good practice and it increases the disk read and response time for sure.

Well if you are also troubled by your slow system then do try defragmentation as it tends to help.

What is Defragmentation?

If you don’t know what defragmentation is, then it would be worthwhile to note that Disk fragmentation leads to system slowdowns, PC crashes, slow startups and shutdowns. Defragmentation is a process of removing the fragmented files which in turn restores the health of our Hard Drive.

Interestingly, it is a slow process used to fix the slow computers.

Free Defragmentation Tools:

1.    Defraggler

Defraggler is free and good defragmentation software from the makers of the famous CCleaner and Recuva software.

Works well in all versions of Windows and on both 32 and 64 bit OS.

2.    JK Defrag/MyDefrag

Light weight defragmenter that can also schedule the process for you. It works well on all Windows versions.

3.    Auslogics Disk Defrag

It is optimized to work with today’s modern hard disks and claims to be faster than most of the other disk defragmentation software.