When IT pros encouraged users to defragment their hard drives, they often recommend utilities that are built into the individual’s operating system. But when it comes to defragmenting their own machines, IT pros all seem to have their favorite third-party defrag utility. During this TR Dojo episode, I’ll look at four, free defragmentation utilities that are popular the TechRepublic members, including:

• UltraDefrag tool
• MyDefrag 4.2.6
• Smart Defrag
• Defraggler defrag hard disk utility

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