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Home › Freeware › Defraggler 2.08 Adds Hard Drive Benchmarking and Improved Detection of SSD

Defraggler 2.08 Adds Hard Drive Benchmarking and Improved Detection of SSD

November 15, 2011 by Venkat Eswarlu

Defraggler is a freeware Defrag tool from the makers of CCleaner, not only allows to defrag entire hard drive but lets you defrag individual files and folders as well, today, Piriform has released Defraggler 2.08 version with new features, improvements and bug fixes. File and drive benchmarking and Volume Shadow Compatible mode are added, SSD detection and disk health tab features are improved.

benchmark drive with Defraggler

Defraggler 2.16 adds Support for SSD Optimization

Benchmark drive, files and folders

Defraggler new version now benchmarks your drive, files and folders. Benchmarking of a drive can be performed from the drive tab. You can benchmark a file by selecting and right-clicking on it in the File List .

Volume Shadow Service (VSS) can be stopped during defragmentation NTFS volumes, you can enable/find this option in Advanced tab of program options.

Disk  Health tab can now display health condition of HDD along with other parameters including temperature (in Celsius) now supports Fahrenheit, you can find this option in ‘General’ tab.

Defraggler works on Windows XP/Vista/7/8.

Download Defraggler 2.08

Venkat Eswarlu
Venkat Eswarlu

Venkat is an independent technology journalist and the founder of Techdows. He has been covering web browsers, Windows, and software news since 2009. His exclusive scoops on Chrome, Firefox, and Edge features have been cited by Forbes, TechCrunch, Wired, CNET, and other major publications.

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