Quick overview of Vopt9
for Windows 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, and Windows 7
Vopt lets you quickly defrag and pack your
disk drives to maintain optimal performance and reliability. Vopt's
speed makes daily defragging both practical and desirable. Vopt also
provides tools to assist you in maintaining your system, reclaiming wasted disk
space, and protecting your privacy.
Vopt offers many different lanquage
choices to give you the comfort of working in your own native language.
Main window map
Vopt's initial main display is a graphic map of the drive showing
which clusters are fully used, partially used, and free (unused). After you
do an analyze or defrag, the map shows which clusters contain normal files, fragmented files,
fixed (immovable) files, excluded files, metafiles, and the hiberfile.
When you click on the map after an analyze or
defrag, Vopt displays a window which lists the
files using that area. You can drag a file from the list and drop it into a
new location on the drive. Be sure to right-click on the list for options -- you
can even compress, uncompress, encrypt or decrypt files from this window.
Defragment menu
- Analyze - Determines and displays what each cluster of the
drive is being used for.
- Defrag - Defragments the drive -- moves files
to contiguous clusters and removes gaps between files.
- Batch defrag - Defragments the multiple drives
you select, and turns off the system afterward if you like.
- Defrag style - Selects fastest, normal, or
tightest packing of files.
- Exclusions - Lets you exclude files from
being moved.
- Schedule - Lets you schedule automatic
defragging.
- Advanced settings - Lets you set Vopt's relative
priority for access to system resources and lets you select strategic
positioning for faster defragmenting.
- Defrag pagefile - Defragments the pagefile.
- VSS compatible defrag (Vista, Windows 2003,
and later) - Performs
minimal defragging and packing to maintain system throughput without losing restore points
when system restore space is limited.
Status
menu
Following
an analyze or defrag, displays lists of fragmented files, large files,
metafiles, and system basics.
Usage
menu
Following
an analyze or defrag, links to the Usage window which lists excluded, fixed,
fragmented, and large files, as well as metafiles. Be sure to right-click
for options -- you can compress, uncompress, encrypt or decrypt files from the
Usage window, and you can drag and drop files to a new location from this
window.
Cleanup
menu
- Cleanup - Lets you view and delete cookies,
internet history, temporary files, etc.
- Subscriptions - Lets you mark cookies you
don't want deleted so you can use Cleanup's one click delete without losing
access to your favorite web sites.
- Zap free space - Clears leftover data from
the drive's free space to prevent others from viewing sensitive information
you've deleted, which may still remain in the free space area.
- USN Journal management - Lets you delete the
$UsnJrnl file, which may otherwise consume gigabytes of drive space
wastefully.
Health
menu
- Check disk for errors - Provides a more
informative access to Window's drive checking facility.
- Drive failure prediction - Checks the drives'
hardware status to ensure that they are in good working order.
- Drive performance - Provides a realistic
measurement of actual drive throughput.
Tools
menu
The tools menu provides several useful tools for
viewing system information and enhancing performance.
Limitations
- Maximum partition size: 16 TB
(terabytes) for volumes formatted with a normal 4096 byte cluster size. Larger
cluster sizes will increase capacity; smaller cluster sizes will decrease
capacity (e.g. 2 TB maximum for a 512 byte cluster
size).
- NAS (Network Attached Storage) drives cannot
be defragmented, and are not displayed in Vopt's drive list.
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