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How to Make PC and Server run Faster?
Optimize hard drive, the slowest component on a system, with O&O Defrag

Does your system take too long to boot up? Too long to backup?

Does frequent hard disk relate problems drag down your IT department?

Do you fix most hard disk relate problems by simply format the hard drive?

Do you simply adding more memory when users complain their PC is slow?

A lot of hard disk related problems and performance problems are caused by hard disk fragmentation.

Fragmented files not only slow down systems and their availability, but leading to an unnecessary reduction in office efficiency and productivity.

System performance lost because of fragmentation not only costs both time and money because the available resources are not used efficiently. This has an indirect effect on the productivity of the systems in the company and thus on the productivity of the employees using these systems.
Reading files that are normally opened very quickly can take up to 10 times because of fragmentation. System boot time can take up to three times as long, and evening back-ups can take up to an hour more, all because hard disk of fragmentation.

As soon as operating system and a couple application software is installed, the file system will begin to fragment. You can avoid system performance losses right from the beginning by installing O&O Defrag in early stage. Only then can you be sure that your hard disks can access your files quickly. You will also avoid unnecessary wear and tear on your hardware due to increased movement of the read/write head.

O&O Defrag 10 offers a simple yet powerful tool to speed up your system. The latest version 10 offers a completely new user interface, making it easier and faster than ever to defragment hard disk. The new Ribbon Bar in Windows Vista-style enables you to access the most frequent and important functions quickly and easily.

O&O OneButtonDefrag let you optimize your computers performance for the rest of its usable life with just the touch of a button. No additional settings or customization are required.

With O&O OneButtonDefrag it is possible to automate the defragmentation of your computer with just a few mouse clicks. With the Server edition you can apply this to all computers on a network. Once set-up, you will never have to worry about the optimization of your storage volumes again. Everything will be taken care of in the background by O&O Defrag. The O&O OneButtonDefrag Assistant appears by default with every new program start. You can also call up the assistant from the program.

O&O Defrag is the only defragmentation software to offer you the O&O ActivityGuard. This tool checks the CPU usage during the defragmentation process. This guarantees that you can work undisturbed whilst O&O Defrag works unnoticed in the background. At times when you’re not using the PC, for example at lunchtime, O&O ActivityGuard notices this and automatically allocates more resources to O&O Defrag.

Using O&O Defrag 10, you can perform a so-called Offline Defragmentation – a defragmentation will be carried out upon system start-up, right before the whole operating system has been loaded. It is now possible, through this feature, to defragment files, which are in exclusive use by the operating system. These files are usually the page file, the registry databases, the hibernation file and the MFT (Master File Table).

Regular defragmentation is the key to consistent top performance. O&O Defrag offers you
a sophisticated scheduling system, so that you don’t have to run the defragmentation manually each time. Most office PC users usually don't know of don't have time to bother with fragmentation. O&O Auto Scheduling defrag save time and money.

You can create, change or delete jobs with this system. If you want to leave out a job for a short period of time, but don’t wish to cancel it completely, you can deactivate it. The job won’t be carried out until you reactivate it.

With the automatic scheduling system, O&O Defrag automatically detects the right time for the next defragmentation with the help of heuristic methods. As a rule of thumb – the more severely and quickly your system fragments, the more often it will be defragmented. If your system does not show a high degree of fragmentation, the frequency of the defragmentation runs will decrease.

O&O Defrag is available in Server edition and Professional edition. Professional edition is designed for workstation, and Server edition is designed for Windows server. Centralized network management solution included in the O&O Defrag Server version. This enables IT staff to install, actualize, configure and remove O&O Defrag Agents in your network. This feature makes it easier and faster for IT staff to manage O&O Defrag Professional edition on each and every PC on the network.
O&O Defrag Server Edition offers a sophisticated, detailed and user-friendly network administration option. The O&O Defrag Management Console is integrated into the Microsoft Management Console and is based on the O&O Enterprise Management Console. The O&O EMC provides the network management option.

Before you replacing those old PC, adding more memory, or reformat the hard drive for a fresh installation, download a 30 days trial of O&O Defrag and try it. You maybe surprise to find that O&O Defrag not only improve system performance, but also eliminates most hard disk relate problems. Better yet, it can greatly reduces regular maintenance cost and save IT staff valuable time.

Hard disk drive is not just the slowest component in a system, but its performance can greatly affect by several factors, including fragmentation.

When you install new application onto an empty hard disk such as new PC, the computer can store the files of the application into sequential sectors. This is an ideal and efficient way to store files and data on a hard disk.

This ideal and efficient technique for storing files becomes harder for a disk over time. As hard disk fills up, files ends up being stored in hundreds or thousands of sectors across the hard disk. Disk fragmentation is a fact of life for PC. Fragmented files makes it longer for the disk's arm to read or save files, especially larger files. It causes frustration and slow down productivity.

As fragmentation spreads, the risk of data corruption grows. Badly fragmented disks not only responsible for slows startup and shutdown process, but also system freezes, application hang-ups, and system crashes.

To minimize the movement of disk arm, and speed up file read and write process, you can use disk defragmenter to move files around so that file is stored on sequential sectors.

Since fragmentation begins the moment the first file is stored on your computer's hard disk and it continues until the disk eventually bogs down so much that it may refuse to boot one day, disk defragmentation should be done regularly to keep system on peak performance. Disk defragmenting can significantly increase the speed of file loading, and reduce a lot of potential programs.

Microsoft Windows shipped with Defragmenter, a very simple utility that most people just don't bother to use it. It is simply too slow and too time consuming to run Windows Defragmenter. Most IT professional are turning to third-party disk defragmentation and optimization software like O&O Defrag.

O&O Defrag 10 offers you five different methods of defragmenting your computer:

Each of these methods offers you an effi cient and quick online defragmentation of your files.

• STEALTH
• SPACE
• COMPLETE/Access
• COMPLETE/Modifi ed
• COMPLETE/Name

As an IT professional, you know the importance of maintaining system performance and reliability. When any system crash, slow down, or freeze, IT staff gets called. This "break-fix" cycle leave you little time to be proactive.

Regular system maintenance can be a daunting task. Maintenance such as defragmentation must take place regularly to keep system running at peak levels. O&O Defarg makes it possible to keep PC and server run faster, more reliable, and save time and money on regular maintenance. You will never again worry about the drop in performance or straining valuable system resources, even when demand is at its absolute highest.

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