For those not in the know - fragmentation occurs on a hard disk in your PC when a file is saved that is too big for the current pieces of free space. When this happens, the file is distributed in fragments across the drive therefore making it slower to open the files and degrading the performance of your overall computing experience.

All is not lost with the aid of a defragmentation utility (a bit of a mouthful I know) or defrag utility for short. Stumbling around the internets today, I found this cool - free - piece of software called "defraggler." It’s a nifty utility that does exactly what you would expect and performs pretty well. When the program starts you are given the opportunity to Analyze [sic] the drive. Once complete you can see the state of your current fragmentation. It has an old-school feel to the graphics with a familiar red square = fragmented & blue square = unfragmented display, with your whole drive represented in a matrix. Now comes the interesting bit (relatively speaking of course.) You have the option of right clicking the drive at the top of the screen and selecting "Defrag" or alternatively you can select files from the list on the left and defrag them individually. What’s the use of this I hear you ask? Well it’s subtle. I think the biggest benefit is if you’re short on time and your copy of Battlefield 2 seems to be a bit sluggish, you can defrag just those files to get the game up to speed again.

Anyway, I think it’s a welcome addition to any geek’s arsenal of system tools so is well worth a download! [SHOW ME]