@Giovanni For my opinion Defraggler is better of iobit smart defrag 2.8 and it's the best program(not for ssd but hdd)

Don't you wish you had the source code to every commercial disk defragmenter out there and see if the code they have compares to the code in FREE programs? It makes me wonder. Everyday I hear of some new company coming out with a defragger I never heard of, or the company itself.

I was once impressed by a company called Disk Keeper, and they even came out with a light edition that compared to the likes of Auslogics Disk Defragmenter. The best defragger out there right now is ioBit Smart Defrag. I don't have time to defrag the files there but its FREE and automatically defrags your system with an "as you go" approach to your daily computing.

I don't use version 1.0 of anything that needs me to trust in its performance, like disk utilities, so I'm passing on today's offer.

@SERGIO
Your problem when using RogueKiller is frustrating to say the least, but it may have more to do with the how it was configured or used. Like many similar programs it must be used with great attention and configured properly to avoid removing 'innocent' processes, registry entries, etc. The following is a quote from a very extensive review of RogueKiller at Tech Republic: "Caution:This is not a replacement for an antivirus or an anti-malware tool. Also, RogueKiller is not a tool that anyone can fire up and start pointing and clicking their way to a healthy PC. You need to use common sense when using RogueKiller; if you don’t, you could delete a Registry entry that shouldn’t be deleted."
The full review is at: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/itdojo/roguekiller-scans-systems-for-rootkits-registry-issues-and-more/3603. Another well balanced review can be found at: http://www.downloadcrew.com/article/27947-roguekiller.

In reference to today's GAOTD offering, 'Anvi Ultimate Defrag Pro 1.0' , I will pass for a variety of reasons already given by others in the comments above. But most of all because I use Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro (thanks to GAOTD) It is definitely an outstanding program [even the free version is very capable.] It does everything I need and more from a Disk Defrag software.

So GAOTD thanks to for this website, and thanks to all the people offering comments including Giovanni. I frequently check out his suggestions, BUT seek out reviews and ratings from other sites before installing most new programs including commercial paid ones from the known 'Biggie-wares'

#33 Mike said "Error Checking…

Otherwise chkdsk is chkdsc, Windows’ built-in error checking that you perform whenever there’s a crash and files may not have been completely written to storage. Typically you right-click a drive letter in Windows’ Explorer, click Properties, go to the Tools tab, click the Check now button under Error-checking, & that’ll open a small window with 2 check boxes —ONLY check the top one, Automatically fix file system errors! DO NOT check the 2nd box, Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors!

My question is WHY NOT SCAN FOR AND ATTEMPT RECOVERY OF BAD SECTORS?
Maybe you can explain this?

Thanks, I liked your article.

One last thing after un-installing there are log files under

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Anvisoft\Anvi Ultimate Defrag\logs

If your using Windows XP.

Has anyone noticed by deafult this program sends stats home by the join ux setting in the program?

Program has been deleted and I'm reverting to a previous backup.

I absolutely hate programs that give themselves the default transmit options.

@14 Comment by Anvisoft_Ivy

Mayby an option:

Make SSD in settings at default not visible,
to avoid problems

Looks like GiveAwayOfTheDay has egg on its face for this one.

It might be a great program, but engineered by a crook doesn't bode well in my mind.

I don't think it takes much imagination to see that if the company gets large enough, at a given point in time in the future, a specific "update" could potentially set him up to retire in a couple of days on his own island.

After all, who checks their antivirus for spyware? There are lots of reasons to be concerned about this.

To What's Up at 8. Any answer? Did not you see this after you tried to register a second time? I did!

http://www.jetScreenshot.com/demo/20130617-800-28kb.jpg .
I'm reading the Int. site as long as dutch moderator is not beheaving very well.

I left a massage for my dutch friends on the Spanisch site of June 16th. In dutch of course. Perhaps someone can translate that comment here in english?

I'm glad to have Giovanni back. Thanks for the tips brother.

Stunningly fatuous software: any defrag developer who comes on here with 'modules' about 'entertainment' and such-like is flogging snake-oil. Not disk care management.

I was going to DL and try this but one look at the developer's description has me running for the hills: hard drive fragmentation can occur anywhere and at any time, regardless of the actual nature / content of a sector's data, so pretending that somehow, in some way, this software is 'optimized' for one mode or another is utter nonsense.

Fall for it if you will -- and that time-limited license period, too, when of course a commercial software of this type should have no such time-crippling at all -- but as for me, thanks GOTD, but definitely, no thanks. This particular developer would seem to have a great deal to learn about how computers actually work -- and how gullible people actually are.

Have any of you ever had their computer slow down through serious fragmentation?
If so, has the built in offering failed to resolve this?
Do tell.
Clearly I say this because my own answer is no.
Which is after 40 years of computer use.

I want to thank daily and eternally to Giovanni's comments that helped me to destroy my computer on June 8 this month: The command "open with" from "menu contest" was destroyed by Rogue Killer Program (Suggested by him) on my computer. How can Giovanni now help me to restore functionality ultimately destroyed in practice by their words? Then obliged to him for his penchant for prescribing drugs to others without real knowledge of medicine.

"Looks like a pretty decent DEFRAGMENTER to speedup the file reading process of your machine, but for the same price you can buy the award-winning AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG PRO EDITION (given away here for FREE a few months ago), which is far better than this GAOTD." on comment #7 above...

However, if it is to pay for something, for almost the same price, then the best alternative is to pay for the best: Diskeeper. Because it is fully automatic. You never need to access it to perform manual defrags or schedule anything! Your computer always (note it: Always) will be around 0.5% fragmentation!

No one has mentioned MyDefrag (freeware) yet, which I've used for years and have no reason to change, as far as I know. Maybe it's slow; I can't judge that as I'm using it on a 80GB drive and I'm happy. Might be a dog on a TB drive or something. It does seem like it's no longer being updated, though; maybe the developer has gone away. Any thoughts?

Hey Giovanni, Great to see you back. We have all missed you and your terrific comments and suggestions so it is wonderful to see you back. As for the offering here today I will only use UltimateDefrag. It does a lot more than simply defrag the drive, it sets up your files in order of most used to seldom used. It is really a good piece of software and it is free so you cannot go wrong. As for using defrags I am not one to over use them perhaps only a year I would suggest but do not kill the hard drive by doing a defrag every week or so. One customer I had not too long ago was defraging the drive on EVERY START of the computer, talk about overkill. At any rate is really good to see Giovanni back.

Just use CCleaner and stay away little know software products.
Stick with apps you KNOW that work, unless of course you have a TEST PC, then, in that case, be sure you are not connected to your network or any work or virus will wind its way thru your network and infect other networked PCs, etc.

IGNORE TODAY'S OFFER. Giovanni has is 120% correct.

Ric-
Though you made the point of stating you're sticking with Auslogic Defrag Free. That's your prerogative.
I've taken the time to read each comment and I'm not seeing any RACISM with anyone here.
If you are referring to myself, pointing something of serious consideration, that everyone should be informed of, to help determine if you want trust this & to download and try. That's not RACISM.
Personally, I feel everyone deserves to work in this world and help provide towards the betterment of life towards us all.
Like I pointed out as well as yourself about the rubbish. I was being facetious when I said "I didn't know you could defrag a hard drive..." You either defrag a hard drive or you don't. There is no "REAL" way of defragging a drive for photo's, or games, or office. Of course, you may optimize a system for this, however that's not done through a hard drive defrag.
And, when a "company"/person advertises upon their site "Bogus" Awards, those should be "RED FLAGS" for you and anybody else, whom want to make an informed decision about this software and before paying over any money. Again, not RACISM.
I hope this clears up any confusion on this matter on my end, for yourself and/or anyone else. God Bless and bottoms up!

@22
You must be one of those people who sees racism everywhere, because I have read through the posts and see none. Please point it out so that we may all condemn it.

All I see is concern over the fact that the people behind AnviSoft are obfuscating their origins. The fact that they might be Chinese is secondary to the possibility that they might have been hackers. If they were suspected of being former hackers for the Italian government, the same dubious eye would be turned on them. It's an issue of credibility and trust, not of racism.

Did anybody see WarGames, the movie from 1983? It is based on a true story and tells about a hacker who intrudes on the defence system of the USA and almost starts a nuclear war. Now I am not saying that this actually happened as the movie depicts but still it's based on a true story.

Why I am telling this? The main character of the movie, in real life went on to become one of the main IT-security and programmer for the US defence administration (or whatever they call it)

Hackers are NOT the scum of the web, they are a vital part in the development of antivirus and anti hacker software. MOST hackers (note I say hackers and not crackers who are a seperate group) hack for fun in the first place and to find weaknesses in software/OS/systems. MOST hackers then will contact the developer in question (often anonymous) to let them know how they got in and often how to prevent it.

JUST A SMALL GROUP does hacking for criminal purposes, obstruction of law and order and/or financial gain, many hackers go on to become important IT specialists for your banks, governments and businesses.

The Anvirsoft company might very well be a very legit and honest company, the nationality of it's CEO is of no importance in that.

However, false information on the homepage, the fact that there are some fundamental issues (like the junk cleaning) AND the fact it tells me my harddrives are not fragmented (while two other programs tell me both my C: is 6% fragmented, which is logical)make me pass on the offer and I uninstalled it.

It is hard to get 0% after all you are using it and the system is always working as well when it is powered on. every process you see is somehow tied to a file (or multiple files)and although RAM will take a lot of the workload, exe files are called, logs are written.... all this on your harddisk thus fragmenting it.

Please let's quit looking at the nationality of the developer (YoWindow for example is a GREAT weather app and it's developers are Russian)but let's look at the product.

AND I agree with the comment that GOTD should MENTION in the software description when it is an offer with a time limit... btw... WHY THE BLEEP does a defragger has a timelimit

The first thing wished for in this article is the use of 12Am and 12PM as a new feature wanted. Oops.

Making a point about the use of 12:00AM and 12:00PM. Since AM means Before Noon (Antes Meridian) and PM means After Noon (Post Meridian), the proper way is to write, and use, 12:00 MID and 12:00 NOON, or abreviated MID as MD and Noon as NN if you are limited to the use of two letters.

It cannot be 12:00AM if it's actually dead-on 12:00, that's why I use 12:01AM THEN it's Antes Meridian, BEFORE NOON (still at night, granted).

I expect to get thumbs down on this matter here, but if you learned something from this, just don't vote negative.

#22 ric. RACISM. Interesting how quickly and easily it is for some to shout racism. Nowhere has anyone here shown racism towards this company. The issue if you had read first is to the activities of the firms head. Other than that you made some good points.

@8 what's up : obviously you installed the trial setup from the developers's homepage and tried to activate it - with the mentioned result. If you install the gaotd setup you will see, that it is the fully registered Pro version. BUT : like mentioned by others it is a time limited license that expires at 4th june 2014. Dear gaotd team, it would be nice and fair to list such limitations in the SW description. Of course it is up to the developer, what type of license is selled, but at the same time it is up to the customer, whether he want to accept it. In my opinion it is a bad habit to deactivate a license after a certain time. It may be o.k. to limit the time of free updates, but the original soft should run forever.

But thanks anyway, because from time to time you are offering real gems, for defrag it is AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG PRO, I agree with Giovanny.

The racism regarding the nationality of the firm's head is unnecessary. USA seems to have PRC paranoia, in spite of the recent Edward Snowden - NSA Prism revelations that USA has in fact been cyber spying on Chinese and Hong Kong civilians for many years.

Downloaded but decided not to install. Will give this a pass.
I do not like it because this software has 4 modes:
Normal, Home, Business, Entertainment.

Under each of the 4 modes, it purports to not only defrag your PC - but also "clean" your PC and "optimise" your PC.
It does not tell you what it cleans away and how it optimises your PC.

Apparently if your chose Entertainment, then your PC would be cleaned and optimised to suit games, videos, music, etc....

And if you chose business mode - your PC would be cleaned and optimised to suit Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe PDF,etc....

To me that is rubbish.
Just stick to defragging the hard disk well.
Leave the decision to me what to remove from my PC.

For that reason, am happy with freeware Auslogic Defrag.

HMM. After reading the article "http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/infamous-hacker-heading-chinese-antivirus-firm/" It seems quite clear that this is in fact a program created by a chinese firm run by a famous security hacker. A firm that seems to be a little fishy as to who they are.
Just for that reason I would not touch this.

I couldn't find the so-call PC Mag review Anvi heralds on their product page. The only Anvi product review among PC Mag's website search results was Anvi Smart Defender, and its review wasn't exactly a glowing "Editor's Choice"...

"Where some antivirus products excel at malware removal and others at preventing new attacks, Anvi Smart Defender is consistently terrible at both. Worse, in testing it quarantined a number of verifiably clean Windows files. Avoid it at all costs."

Anvi's claim of a 5-star c|Net review is equally dubious, as this product is unreviewed there.

That's an automatic A-V-O-I-D from this reviewer.

To my post 12:

I had to correct myself.

- There IS a boot time defragmentation under "options". I just didn't see it on the first automatic run.

- There is a possibilty to see, which junk files have been deleted - but after the program finished and you have to check the "delete to recycle bin" beforehand under options again.

and : this is really a one year licence

#6 Giovanni
He mentioned and recommended a program you pay for called Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro Edition, frankly from my experience it is in a class of its own. It reminds me of the days when Norton's programs were the top-of-the-line and he produced a similar program.
It is much more than a run-of-the-mill Defrag program and a review of it is at the following link.
http://betanews.com/2012/02/09/auslogics-disk-defrag-pro-review/

Obviously I'm not recommending you ignore today's offer even if the link provided by #3 BoozeHelps is correct, some hackers were superb programmers.
However, if you're in the market for a first rate disk defragmentation program Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro Edition is the way to go.

So, what exactly are the defragment strategies employed for each of the different profiles here? I couldn't find any details on the developer's website... In fact, the majority of the site links to information related to the company's other product (an anti-malware application).

Could you give us the benefit of the doubt here, and not assume that providing this information will just confuse your customers? How do the different profiles sort files on the disk? By last-used date attributes, file size, file type? Do they employ different gap-optimizations or other strategies?

From a potential customer's point-of-view, it doesn't ingratiate a lot of trust for a company to claim these features without explaining how they work. Instead, that usually feels like a company is just trying to make some quick cash by relying on impulse buys from people who don't know any better...

License is only good for less than one year. How is that a Giveaway? Auslogics Disk Defrag Pro was given away a few months ago with an unlimited License. It's a better program than this one. I wouldn't recommend installing this on your computer.

I would not feel safe using software from this company.

As BoozeHelps posted earlier, you are strongly urged to read this:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/infamous-hacker-heading-chinese-antivirus-firm/

Nice...clean cut program.....

Thanks a lot for reminding.

Anvi Ultimate Defrag can defrag and optimize solid state drive(SSD), but we do not recommend to do so.

Don't forget that if you're running your system from a solid state drive (SSD) you should not use a disk defragmenter.

Installed on Win8-64 Bit without Problems.

Nice clean Interface, makes a good impression. A first run on my system disk is quite fast.

I am missing the offline defragmentation for system files in use. At least i couldn't find a switch for that. So the boot time defragmentation doesn't exist.

!!! An absolute NoGo is the automatic cleaning of so called "junk files", without warning and information!

Before the defragmenting process I run CCleaner and in addition DiskMax. So there shouldn't have been any junk files left, but the Anvi Ultimate Defrag claimed, that it had cleared some Megabyte of junk files, without any additional information.

Uninstalled exactly for this reasons. I want to know, what has been deleted on my system disk.

A super program! After running CCleaner and some other tuning & cleaning programs, this has still found 985 MB of junk files!
Thank you GOTD!

disk alignment usually only matters on RAID systems or other controllers that don't start at sector zero.

Matt, TRIM wasn't designed to save SSD life. maybe you meant wear leveling. SSDs have a copy on allocate scheme, so it doesn't write over the same section of flash on a disk write, it creates a new file and leaves the old allocated blocks where they we. so TRIM is meant to clean up the unused erase blocks after the new files have been created, since erase is the slowest operation for NAND. if you were to fill up the NAND blocks before the drive catches up you would lose all of your performance because your drive would have to perform an erase then a write for every write you make...

After installation and successful registration I did the following:

Click "more" down in the right corner
Click "License Information"

Now I can see the activationcode I just applied, but it states:
License Status= Inactive

Is this something to worry about?
Does anybody else have this aswell?

I would appreciate any feedback, preferrably also from GAotD or Anvisoft.

Looks like a pretty decent DEFRAGMENTER to speedup the file reading process of your machine, but for the same price you can buy the award-winning AUSLOGICS DISK DEFRAG PRO EDITION (given away here for FREE a few months ago), which is far better than this GAOTD.

So my suggestion to the developer is to make the price a little bit cheaper otherwise it doesn't make sense to buy it instead of AUSLOGICS product.

BEST (and some of them even BETTER)FREE ALTERNATIVES

* (Portable) UltimateDefrag Freeware Edition
This is a revolutionary Defragmenter packed with an amazing array of advanced options. Why is it better than others similar (paid & free) products out there?? Simply because it's actually much more than just a defragger: in fact, not only defrags your HD deeply & effectively, but it's also able to automatically place all of your files and folders in the right areas of your HD so that your PC may achieve maximum performance. Official version is shareware but here it's amazingly FREE of charges:

http://www.freewaregeeks.com/?page=detail&get_id=176&category=53

And to make it PORTABLE just follow instructions here:
http://www.pendriveapps.com/ultimate-defrag-defragmenter

* Portable Auslogics Disk Defrag
http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/#portable

* (Portable) UltraDefrag
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html#features

* (Portable) Iobit Smart Defrag
http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html

* Puran Defrag
Very powerful FREE HD defragmenter, which helps users optimize their HD and boost the speed of their system.
At the end of the defragmentation process, this tool provides you with an analysis report, showing the total defragmented files, directories, excluded or deleted items, deleted bytes and fragmented files, as well as the first ten fragmented files.

http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag.html

* MyDefrag (==> Softpedia Editor Pick)
http://www.mydefrag.com/index.html

* (Portable) Defraggler
http://www.piriform.com/defraggler

* Glarysoft Disk SpeedUp
http://www.glarysoft.com/products/utilities/disk-speedup

Unfortunately most of the FREE and even PAID defraggers out there are not able to neither showing nor defragmenting your paging files and/or Registry hives, which can both be one of the main causes of your system slowdown due to file fragmentation.

This is where the freeware "PageDefrag", by the legendary Mark Russinovich, comes in (works like a charm on Windows7 as well: must be run as Administrator though!!):

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx

Finally, you should also know that the modern disks need, for best performance, the right ALIGNMENT of read/write operations in relation to the physical sector.

This FREE & PORTABLE gem checks the volume alignment status of your Advanced Format disks, telling you when an alignment is required as well as some recommendations to optimize the disks in question.

http://diskat.net

To correct any possible wrong alignment you need specific software, which are usually offered, FREE of charge, by the disk manufacturers for each of their devices:

http://diskat.net/faq-en.html

Enjoy!!

My 2 cents....

The license is only good for one year

Free alternatives:

Auslogics Disk Defrag Free
http://www.auslogics.com/

Smart Defrag
http://www.iobit.com/

and opensource:
UltraDefrag
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net

Oh WOW... just when you didn't know you could defrag a hard drive, only depending upon what you decide it's use is for. What an EYE OPENER!
I mean, imagine the possiblities...
Seriously though...
MAKE CERTAIN YOU READ THIS:
http://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/11/infamous-hacker-heading-chinese-antivirus-firm/

This program has a very "Windows 8" look and feel. However, I don't really see much of a need for it on Windows 8. Windows 8 has its own built-in background defragmenter and general disk optimizer, and it can be called manually: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-8/what-happened-to-disk-defragmenter-in-windows-8/

Since Windows 8's built-in defragmenter does a lot more than just defragment drives, I couldn't recommend this product in good faith. On Windows 7 and below, this is indeed more useful than the Microsoft-provided offering. *However*, do note that this tool does not support TRIM (a feature on SSD drives to prevent excessive wearing out) so you should only use this product on actual hard disks.

This product appears to use standard Microsoft APIs, which means it should be safe to use. However, this means that the claim "Check and repair disk errors to facilitate disk defragment and optimization" is fundamentally incorrect; it can only check file system errors (basically, a CHKDSK interface). I tested this on a drive which is going bad, but whose filesystem has no problems and it said "No Problem".

The only feature which strikes me as potentially problematic is the "Disk Cleanup" feature. As far as I can tell (I'm afraid to actually run it), it will silently delete files matching certain filename patterns (regardless of where the files live). So hopefully you don't have any programs using those filename extensions in their application directories! My gut says that the built-in Windows "Disk Cleanup" is probably a safer choice than this option for most of this site's readers, though this appears to be a very powerful feature for real power users.

Overall? If you're on XP/Vista/7 and don't have a third-party defragmenter, take a look at this one. Just don't use it on your SSD. If you're on Windows 8, skip this since Windows 8 does most of it without you having to even touch a thing (and this program doesn't strike one as being aware of the new-in-8 stuff overall, aside from the UI).

I prefer to wipe junk files myself. So go to settings and opt to move junk files to the waste basket, instead of having them removed automatically, if you agree with me.