Smart Defrag can also move frequently used files and directories into the fastest area of the disk. This can be useful if you don't want the tool to mess with an important database file. However, you can exclude files and folders from automatic or scheduled defragmentation. You can't manually defragment specific files and folders as with Auslogics Disk Defrag.

As disk activity is one of the biggest power consumers in a laptop, this feature will certainly improve the battery life noticeably. Defragmentation can be automatically stopped when on battery. Yet another 'smart feature' is quite useful for laptop users. You can configure Smart Defrag to defragment the pagefile, the hibernation file, the Master File Table (MFT), and other problematic system files when the computer boots up.

Some system files can't be defragmented during runtime because this would make the system unstable. Smart Defrag's Boot Time defrag is another function that most free defragmentation tools lack.

You can configure the PC's idle time, after which Smart Defrag becomes active, and you can tell the tool to pause whenever the resource usage exceeds a configurable percentage. Automatic Defrag always runs in the background and only starts defragmenting if the PC is idle. The problem with scheduled defragmentation is that it can't always guarantee that the computer isn't busy at the scheduled time, and a desktop or laptop could be powered off at the scheduled time. This makes sense because Smart Defrag has something better to offer: Automatic Defrag. However, this feature is disabled by default. Most defragmentation tools support scheduling, and so does Smart Defrag.

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