Installation and System Requirements - O&O Software

Reports and Logging
You can create reports with O&O Defrag. These are status reports that you can later view as
HTML documents. A maximum of 999 reports can be saved for each job.
If you also wish to simultaneously write of all O&O Defrag’s actions in the Windows event
log, enable this option. You can determine the level of detail – Level 1 only logs errors, whereas
Level 4 logs all available information. Please bear in mind that this can constitute a lot
of information and requires a large amount of free disk space.
Exclude Files
If you don’t wish to defragment particular files and directories, you can enter them here.
These files will be ignored by the defragmentation.
Drive Options
You can get O&O Defrag to check the integrity of your drives before each defragmentation.
For safety reasons, the defragmentation will not be run if O&O Defrag finds errors on your
drives. The checking of your drives is similar to the chkdsk function in Windows, although
the errors won’t be corrected. This can be done manually using the chkdsk function.
Job Dialogue: General Settings
Tuning
O&O Defrag offers you many ways of making your defragmentation even more effective
and efficient. The standard options are optimized for most systems, so these won’t normally
have to be changed. You can, however, adapt these configurations to suit your requirements.
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