JonE, no guarantee, but maybe Giveaway will have another version of this, by the time license is over.

Peter v Rijswijk, I too had Advanced System Care. Never again. That piece of **** used to hog literally close to 1GB of RAM on system start-up, which would bring my system to an absolute crawl. Even bringing up my task manager to kill the task would take forever. I suspected Glary Utilities and MySQL server as being the culprits and uninstalled them, only to discover that ASC was the true culprit. They can shove that piece of work you know where.

George Taylor, Whoever down-voted my comment, I dare you to install that piece of **** and see for yourself.

Anthony J Pulli, yeah you have to recommend the software to your friends that trust you before you can even know if you would recommend it

Anthony J Pulli,

Seriously?

Alternatively you can get a personal download link via email. Right under the facebook bit when you click download.

Anthony J Pulli: Is there something difficult about the phrase: "alternatively you can get a personal download link via email" which has always appeared in the text of the GOTD download panel?

Joey Brown, Giving something away implicitly connotes that it's free and that you don't have to do anything, let alone jump through hoops, become a shill and edorse said product -- EVER.

Anthony J Pulli, There is always a link to click to get the DL link by email. That's what I always do. Never do the FB thing.

Sim, You are correct in being wary of that Advanced System care. Uninstall it if you have the option imo. All and I mean ALL those "system care" programs do nothing that you can't do, with a little research if you haven't done them before maybe. With the added benefit of the possibility of tanking your system they just are not worth having , again imho.

Sim, Advanced sys care is a 'fair' maintenance prog, but I'd uninstall it if you do not want constant ads for the pro version popping up all the time. If you want a better one go for Glary Utilities. More features, no ad pops and it even does software updates, though it's defrag could be better.

AB, After you open "Smart Defrag" Click on "Manage License" then click on "refresh". Copy the license key provided in the "Readme" inside the .zip file you downloaded; then paste that license key at the bottom of the dialog box and then click "Authorize" or whatever it is.

Wah La; it's good for fifty weeks.

Janet, On the first screen, it says click here to configure custom installation...or something like that. If you do that then you can install where you want. I installed on my F drive.

seagrape, If you open the program on the bottom right you'll see a link to enter code. click on it and it will give you a box to paste the code in.

Carla, The only link at bottom right is for "Manage License" and when I click it there is no space to enter code. the only is "License Manager" with a license code already there and it is not the same one that was in the Read Me text file. Well, it's too late already to activate with the Activation Code that was sent in the Read Me file. :-(

As always when there's an activate.exe.

Michael, there is no activate.exe, activation is done within the Smartdefrag application.

Paul,

If you open the Defragmentation utility under the Tools tab for the drive's Properties it will show the last date and time the drives were defragmented.

Since Windows default schedules defragmenting in the wee hours of the morning, it may never have been done if your computer is turned off then. Not a problem. Just schedule it for a time when the computer is in use. When used on a regular basis you will hardly notice it running.

Paul, It shouldn't defrag automatically while you're using a computer, so if you're always using your computer you should choose time and launch defrag manually, if you're leaving your computer for a few hours working at night, for example, then there's a chance that Windows will launch it.

Reloaded the program and was finally able to activate to PRO so good. The differences appear to be the ability to defrag the registry at boot time and to defrag specified files at boot time that cannot be defragged during normal running.

Collin, NO! 177 days!

Collin, Why? iObit seem to offer all their softwares as giveaways about every 6 mnths with their new updates... so all you have to do is extend your license... like I'm going to do right now. OTOT their freeware versions are as good anyway.

HavocRock,

You mean current SSD's (Solid State Drives). HDD's (Hard Disk Drives) still benefit from regular defragging.

HavocRock, they still do. This is why Windows automatically runs a defrag every week.

SSD don't need to be defraged. However it is a myth that defragging them will kill them. They have such a long life time (much longer than hard drives), that defragging them, while pointless, is also harmless. Windows is smart enough not to defrag SSDs.

Roger, " They have such a long life time "
Huh. I've had 2 of them die on me and I'm not exactly a power user.

Roger,
I thought I had read they (SSD drives) only last approx. 4 years?

Roger,
SSDs are designed for speed not longevity, they are very sensitive on power variations.
Try to pull the plug on your PC while SSD is writing and see what happens.

Nigel, No, none of the hard drives need defragging and by defragging all you do is reduce it's life. All hard drives SSD or other, have a set number of read and write and defragging will result in reducing hard drive's life by using up read and write.

TK, I don't know what your experience with hard drives is, but you are wrong. Chances of data recovery on a defragged hard drive are a lot less. Current drives don't need defragging because the speed of computers along with decent speed of hard drives makes it unnecessary to defrag hard drives. The difference after defragging hard drives on today's computers is so low that it's pointless to defrag hard drives and it only results in reduced lifespan of your hardware.

Roger, I don't know where you are getting your imformation from, but solid state hard drives don't have the kind of lifespan you think they do. No hard drives nowadays needs defragging and as far as windows defragging your hard drive goes, windows does it to make give you that tiny bit extra speed that you might notice while working with photos or documents without any regard for the life of your hard drive because Microsoft doesn't care how quickly your hard drive dies, it only cares about showing that barely noticeable performance and even that performance will be noticeable for a short period of time, but the life of your hard drive will be reduced considerably.

Well been tempted to do the SSD thingy.......guess the bucks might be a waste, after all right not my XP is operating on a 160G Seagate since 2005.....24/7......not that many are total trash....I'm lucky....a WD 2 TB lasted less that a year and the JERKS wound's do anything...however I had another backup.....so PHOOEY on WD.

TK, I had an error on my ssd, couldn't open it or format, and I managed to fix it by connecting to another computer and running windows default chkdsk utility. So i think ssd have some error correction data.

HavocRock,

By the time that happens I've usually replaced them with newer technology. "Touch wood", I've yet to have a hard drive fail on me, or SSD yet for that matter. BUT, I am a believer in regular defragging of HDD's, by cutting down on seek times, it can actually prolong the HDD's life. It also helps in the recovery of files if the drive is not too fragmented. My beliefs anyhow.

TK, you clearly don't have enough practical experiences with hard drives and are speaking from theory which is flawed. In my experiences of over 20 years, hard drive life is reduced by defragging, the performance is barely raised and data recovery can be a lot more difficult if you had and error on drive and you have defreagged it after the error appeared. Sometimes you wouldn't know about the error till you defrag it and the system has trouble moving the data.

As for your facts, they are pointless. Windows doesn't usually defrag in the background, IT USUALLY DEFRAGS WHILE THE SYSTEM IS NOT BEING USED. Not everything windows does is right, not everything windows does is good for your computer.

A hard drive's seek time will not dramatically improve by defragging no matter what you say, the improvement is so little that you are not going to notice it no matter what you say. Your claim is logically and factually wrong, not mine. I currently have 3 desktops and 12 laptops and I never defrag drives on any of these machines and have never had performance issues with any of these machines. I have experimented with computers for hard drive performance and issues hundreds of times and have found that defragging doesn't improve performance by much and for long, defragging can reduce the life of your hard drive by over 50% and it can definitely result in data loss if there is an error on the drive before you start defragging.

As for knowable limit on read and right data on magnetic media, it does have a predictable limit. Sometimes, some drives might last longer, but generally they have a limit and going above that limit is not recommended if your data is important.

I am not speaking after reading a blog or by googling information, I am speaking from experience that is larger than probably most of your life. I spend countless hours with computers, always have. I know how they tick.

HavocRock, here is a link explaining the long life of SSDs. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/consumer-grade-ssds-actually-last-a-hell-of-a-long-time/
From the article: "The results are impressive: the consumer-grade SSDs tested all made it to at least 700TB of writes before failing."

Also, there's this: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2856052/grueling-endurance-test-blows-away-ssd-durability-fears.html

Defragging a hard drive, should extend the life.

Moes, I've been using budget Chinese brand (Kingfast) SSD for 12+ hours a day (and 24 hours when I leave my laptop running when I'm downloading large files at night) for 16 months. I've written over 24 terrabytes of data to drive, and have never any issues.

mike, there was some quality issues with early SSDs. But newer SSDs are very reliable.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2856052/grueling-endurance-test-blows-away-ssd-durability-fears.html

http://betanews.com/2014/12/05/modern-ssds-can-last-a-lifetime/

In the second link, they state "To reach that mark in 10 years, you would have to write 204.8 TB of data each year. That is 17.06 TB of data each month, or approximately 574.4 GB each day. I rarely write more than 5 GB of data per day, let alone more than 100 times as much."

I've written over 24 terrabytes of data to my cheap Chinese SSD in the last 16 months, and it's still working fine.

HavocRock, modern ssd have pretty much the same life span as traditional hard drives, but the very first ssd weren't this good, and so they have earned this failure reputation.

Chewy, after a year, it will revert to the free version, which has less features than the Pro version. You will be able also be able to install new version of Smart Defrag when they are released.