Installation and System Requirements - O&O Software

Automatic Defragmentation
Overview
Defragmentation on a regular basis is the key to maintaining top performance. O&O Defrag
offers you a sophisticated scheduling system so that you don’t have to run the defragmentation
manually each time.
So-called defragmentation jobs (in short, jobs) allow you to define the time, action and
other parameters for the defragmentation. You can configure all options the way you do in
the Settings dialog.
You have the power to create, change or delete jobs. If you want to leave out a job for a
short period of time, but don’t wish to cancel it completely, you can disable it. In this way,
the job will not be run until you once again enable it.
With the automatic scheduling system, O&O Defrag automatically detects the right time for
the next defragmentation using heuristic methods. As a rule of thumb: the more severely
and quickly your system fragments, the more often it will be defragmented. If your system
does not show a high degree of fragmentation, the frequency of defragmentation runs will
decrease.
Creating New Jobs
Under Jobs and Reports in the Ribbon Bar click Create.
If you want to use a job that already exists as a guide, you can simply duplicate the job (Duplicate).
You can then edit and save it.
You can then define all options for this job in the O&O Defrag job dialog.
Name
Enter the name of your job. This will be used for the creation of reports and serves as information
about which action is being carried out by the job. The name of the job is only
important for this purpose and it is possible to use this name for other jobs too.
In the field Notes, you can enter any other information you wish to remember or share about
the job.
Job Enabled
If you want to leave out a job for a short period of time, but don’t wish to delete it altogether,
you can disable it. It won’t be run until you enable it once again.
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