O&O Defrag 17 User's Guide - O&O Software

Status reports• The drive will be analyzed. You can see an analysis being run with the drive symbol in the progress display.• Once an analysis is completed, the status report will be automatically saved and displayed.Note: You can also create status reports for several drives at the same time by pressing the Ctrl key and selectingthe drives you want to have included.Evaluating Status ReportsBased on the O&O Defrag status reports, you can document the level of fragmentation as well as the results of defragmentationon your system. Status reports contain all important information regarding your hard disk drives.The level of fragmentation is particularly important. It constitutes a normalized value of the fragmentation and can beused as a comparison for different systems and for hard disks of different sizes. This value ranges from 0 (completelydefragmented) to 100% (completely fragmented). A low value of (under 5%) is recommended. You can also use thisvalue in jobs when defining a threshold for an automatic defragmentation.Deleting status reportsTo deletea status report, select it in the report list and use your keyboard’s delete key. If you want to delete an entirereport group, e.g. "Last month", all reports will be deleted in the specified time period.The function Delete all, allows you to delete all reports at the same time.O&O Defrag - 44