Giveaway of the Day - Advanced Defrag
August 18, 2010This giveaway is not available any more.
Advanced Defrag is an award-winning defrag program which is designed to cure system sluggishness and keep your computer running like new. It is able to completely and thoroughly analyze and defrag hard disks and Windows registry, thus effectively maximizing the system performance and improving your working efficiency on the computer.
Key features:
- In-depth analyze and defrag quickly & thoroughly
- Registry defrag feature support
- Real-time defragment
- Auto-pilot schedule task
- Support external USB device defragmentation
- Detailed web-style analyse & defragment report
- Portable, intuitive and easy to use
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| User Rating: Rate It! | 71 comments |
|---|---|
| System Requirements: | Windows ME/ 2000/ 2003/ XP/ Vista/ 7 |
| Publisher: | Fastmule |
| Homepage: | http://www.advanceddefrag.com/ |
| File Size: | 10.3 MB |
| Price: | $34.95 |
This software was available as a giveaway on August 18, 2010, this giveaway is not available any more.
You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.advanceddefrag.com/.
Terms and conditions
Please note that the software you download and install during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support; 2) No free upgrades to future versions; 3) Strictly personal usage.
THIS SOFTWARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. WITHOUT LIMITATION, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWABLE BY LAW, END USER ASSUMES THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DOWNLOADED SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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I decided not to conduct a full review on the software because of the questionable nature of the software; rather I would like to issue a couple of words of caution: The developer of Advanced Defrag is known to distribute malware/rogue software.
AdvancedDefrag.com – the homepage for Advanced Defrag – has poor reputation on WOT and SiteAdvisor primarily based off an hpHosts blacklist which claims AdvancedDefrag.com is “used for the distribution of ‘rogue’ security or other such applications.” Because of past experience with hpHosts and the lack of proof to back their claims (hpHosts just tell you a website is bad, they don’t provide proof as far as I can find), I have learned to take hpHosts ratings as an opinion rather than fact unless the ratings are backed by scan results or by other sources. (Indeed, Softpedia has given Advanced Defrag a “100% clean” rating, and SiteAdvisor says it found “one green download” on the website but does not specify what the download is.) So, AdvancedDefrag.com’s reputation alone is not enough reason to completely blacklist this program, in my opinion. However, when one takes a look at Cheesesoft.com – the homepage of Cheese Software Inc, the developer of Advanced Defrag – there is more than sufficient reason to avoid this program like the plague.
Saying Cheesesoft.com has a terrible reputation on WOT and SiteAdvisor is an understatement. Although SiteAdvisor says there are “5 clean downloads” (and no infected ones) on Cheesesoft.com, there are five comments – based off three sources, one being hpHosts – identifying Cheesesoft.com as a malware and/or phishing threat. On WOT, it is even worse: There are 47 comments claiming Cheesesoft.com has malware content and/or is a phishing threat and/or uses browser exploits; as with the SiteAdvisor comments, the ratings are based off more than one source although primarily the same three sources as the ones in the SiteAdvisor comments are used.
So, in the end, I am sure the GOTD team has properly vetted the software to ensure it is malware free, but download this program at your own risk. In my not-so-humble opinion, the risk of using a program from a questionable developer (to say the least) is not worth the reward considering disk and registry defragger can be found a dime a dozen.
Looking for quality – and free – defraggers? See Auslogics Disk Defrag or MyDefrag for your disk defragmentation needs. (I am a fan of Auslogics Disk Defrag, but both are great defraggers.) For registry defragmentation, NTREGOPT or QuickSys RegDefrag are good choices. (Most people will probably prefer QuickSys RegDefrag because of its superior user-friendliness.)
As always, stay safe!
NOTE: Here on GOTD the developer of this software is listed as “FastMule”. However, everywhere else the developer is listed as Cheese Software Inc. (including Softpedia); and if you do a WHOIS on AdvancedDefrag.com and Cheesesoft.com you will see they are registered to the same e-mail address.
I already have specialist tools to do the job that this program does but wanted to add a suggestion for an improvement which I don’t believe any other software has but would improve the speed of users PC’s.
The biggest problem that causes slowdown, in my experience, is when a user installs a new security software without fully removing the previous one. Several security suites leave numerous items behind even after being uninstalled which cause conflicts with the new software.
It would be brilliant if there was an option to obtain a list of all security suites that are installed/not fully removed. A link to the relevant removal tool for those suites could then be provided or an option for the software itself to remove leftover parts of any security suites the user no longer requires.
It would also be beneficial if, before the defragmentation commences, the software offered to empty unnecessary temporary files from the main temp folders as this would speed up the defragmentation process as well as freeing up space for the user.
There are some free defrag tools you can use that are safe :
JKDEFRAG
DEFRAGGLER
AUSLOGICS DISKDEFRAG FREE EDITION
I dont like the built in defrag on any windows since its painfully slow!