MyDefrag

JkDefrag will become obsolete, because MyDefrag¹ is comming.

I already consider JkDefrag - by far - the best defrag tool ever. It has a simple UI, uses the minimal amount of resources needed, and does the best job in transparantly and easily restoring your harddrive into an optimal state. JkDefrag or MyDefrag is too small a name for the tool, as it does so much more for your disk than 'just' defragmenting it. JkDefrag already has the 'zones' in wich it organizes your files, but MyDefrag just goes sooo much further. This is a tool that is well worth your time if you care about the speed of your system. Especially on todays cramped Vista installations on laptops (read 5400rpm, Vista + Office + VS Team Suite) the disk is rapidly becomming the bottleneck.It is not the amount of space that is the problem, disks are large enough to hold all the files. It is where the files are placed on the disk that is causing the problem. Read my previous posts if this is not clear: The Ultimate Defragger and Windows 7.

MyDefrag has the capability to become my Ultimate Defragger. All I need is a small service that will keep track of what files I use most often and what processes I start most often (and all the files that program tends to load). With that information and generating the correct script (or inputfile for the ImportListFromFile function) I can have MyDefrag run daily and keep my disk in proper order.

Ofcourse if Microsoft took a good look at this tool, or better yet, buy its IP, and incorporate the logic and scripting engine into the Ntfs filesystem driver, so that optimization is done at write time and not as an afterthought, windows could finally manage todays' harddisks properly. Windows would be able to keep lots of its 'fresh-install' speed even after several years of use.

¹ MyDefrag is currently still in early beta.