Main view
The main view in O&O Defrag Professional Edition consists of five areas:
Menu and taskbar
This contains all actions that you can carry out with O&O Defrag. The taskbar provides you with a shortcut to the most frequently-used menu actions, which you can perform with one click of the mouse. All views of O&O Defrag (except the task pane) also have context menus, which show you the command you can use within that view.
Task assistant
New in O&O Defrag V6 - the task assistant. This is designed in the familiar Windows XP style and can be found on the left hand side of the main window. Depending on which view you are currently using, the assistant displays the most frequent tasks. If you hover with the mouse over a task, a short explanation will appear.
The assistant appears in the cluster view and explains the different block colors. Clicking on the descriptions allows you to choose your own colors.
Note: The task assistant is also available if you’re running Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.
Volume list
The volume list displays information about the volume and the task which is currently being carried out. You can configure the list columns yourself. Simply select ôChange columnsö from the context menu.
As a default option, the following information is displayed; volume letter, status, progress in percent (ô% completedö), fragmented files, size in MB, free space in MB, file system, time remaining and current file/directory.
Job list
The job list in the middle of the main view displays all jobs on the computer. You can edit or remove these jobs. The job view can be hidden if you no longer need it.
Cluster view
The cluster view displays the contents of the volume chosen by means of a block graphic. Please note that you can display several volumes by dividing the cluster view. You can toggle between the cluster view and report view with the cluster view button. 
For viewing purposes, a certain number of clusters will be summarized in one block. This number is displayed at the top of the cluster view. You can change the size of the blocks and the way they appear on screen (3D view/shading) with the context menu. The shaded view shows you how full the block is with darker and lighter shades. If you choose not to use shading, the block will be displayed in full color. Below you will find a description of all colors used
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Color |
Description |
Explanation |
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(light blue) |
In processing |
O&O Defrag is currently working on one or more cluster in this block. |
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(red) |
Fragmented |
At least one cluster belongs to a fragmented file. |
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Exclusively locked |
The block contains files that are exclusively locked by Windows or other applications (e.g. the registry). |
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Block contains clusters from the pagefile. |
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Occupied |
At least one cluster contains data. |
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Compressed |
At least one cluster is compressed (NTFS only). |
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System |
At least one cluster belongs to a system file. |
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Reserved for the MFT |
At least one cluster is reserved for the MFT. |
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Directory |
Block contains cluster of one or more directories (Windows 2000 or XP only). |
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Free |
All clusters are empty. |
Report view
When you have chosen to have status reports created, these will be displayed in the report view. You can open a report by double-clicking on it and displaying it in your internet browser.
