WinContig 0.90

There is one simple reason why you need to regularly defragment your hard drive, and that reason is performance. To ensure your system works at its best, you have to keep your hard drive organized – and this is where defragmenting comes in. Think of a defragmenting tool as a maid, that comes and picks up after you. When everything is nice and organized, you can easily find what you’re looking for, and you’re efficient. When everything is a mess, you waste a lot of time looking for stuff.

When it comes to defragmenting your hard drive, you can take one of two roads. You can go on Microsoft Blvd and use the defragmenting tool that comes bundled with your Windows operating system. Historically speaking, this default tool has not always proven to be the best of the pack – just like NotePad or WordPad are not the best text editors out there, or like Paint isn’t the best image editor.

You can also go on 3rd Party Ave – find a 3rd party developed application and use that instead. Take this road and you will find something like the Marco D'Amato-developed application WinContig. Here is what this application does: it defragments files and folders without the need to defrag the whole disk.

There are plenty of things to like about this application:
- The download weighs in at some 360KB, which means that even on a less than spectacular internet connection, it should take very little time to get WinContig off the web and onto your computer.
- WinContig does not have to be installed. After you download the app, simply run the exe file and WinContig will be up and running. The fact that WinContig does not have to be installed means the application is portable. You can stick it onto a portable storage device, like a USB stick, and take it with you.
- WinContig works with just about any version of the Microsoft-developed Windows operating system. It works with XP, works with Vista, and even works with Windows 7 (the latest iteration at the time of writing this).
- WinContig is freeware, which means you can use the application

Pros

• Easy to use
• Lightweight download size
• Works with all Windows version
• Freeware
• Defrags files and folders with no need to defrag the whole disk
• Fast

Cons

• None that I could think of

Additional details about WinContig are available here.

WinContig has been reviewed by George Norman on 17 Aug 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated WinContig 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent