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Welcome to the Fast Defrag 2.1 quick help file.
This documentation was designed to assist you at any time, provide detailed information about FAST Defrag usage, solutions to common problems, and answers to frequently asked questions. You may visit our web site for the latest documentation and updates. 

FAST Defrag Professional is a very powerful tool that includes a huge number of features to enhance your PC performance, to make it more secure and to simplify your daily work.
Compatibility info:
Fast Defrag 2 is very portable and it can be used on any 32 bit version of Windows including Windows 95,98,Me, NT4.0, 2000,XP. There are no different releases. Use the same package for each version of Windows without any additional settings. Fast Defrag uses incredibly low system resources so you won’t feel its presence.
Installing and Uninstalling: Download the setup program from AMS ( amsn.ro  ) or software distributors. Install it by answering to a few set-up questions. You may uninstall it from Add/Remove programs form control Panel or from Stat Menu.

1. System Manager
Contains two windows: Memory and Processor. The Memory Window displays information about your system's RAM and current swap file (Virtual Memory). 
Memory Window Content:
Used Hard Memory is the approximate percentage of total physical that is in use.
Total physical memory indicates the amount of physical memory installed in your system.
Free physical memory indicates the amount of physical memory available.
Virtual Memory size indicates the total number of KB / MB that can be stored in the paging file. Note that this number may not represent the actual physical size of the paging file on disk.
Free Virtual Memory Size indicates the number of KB / MB available in the paging file.
Processor Usage indicates the approximate percentage of your processor usage.
Available Options: Clean. You can do this either by clicking "Clean" or click right button of the mouse on Fast Defrag icon in system tray.
What will happen after I press Clean?
>You will get back the maximum amount of free memory possible in the shortest time (without removing operating system or active programs components from physical memory as all other RAM managers do). If Windows or any other program components are removed you will have to wait until they will be loaded again, so your time is wasted
> The information will be rearranged and reallocated and the components that are not currently used will be moved into the Virtual Memory.
Application Crash Protection: The memory will not contain any unclaimed data so we can prevent future "Memory could not be read" errors (occurs because an application does not allocate a large enough buffer for the maximum string length permitted. however this error can be fixed by FAST Defrag cleanup engine). Your running applications will be more stable and will use less memory after the cleanup procedure it’s done.
User Note: FAST Defrag is designed for All Windows Versions and it can correct all types of application/system crashes. If an application crashes each time you try to execute it (and worked fine before) all you have to do is to press Clean and it will work again. 
Processor Window displays information about your PC’s main processor like model, speed, functions and other hardware details. You can save that information into an output file.

2. Task Manager displays all the applications that are running on your system and regarding your windows version you can find out different information about each process like: resource consumption, memory consumption, application full path, number of threads etc.
You can save the snapshot of the running applications into an output file.
Spyware Protection: This module contains features to prevent unwanted applications to run. 
Available Options:
End Task: you can highlight and kill the specified process.
Refresh: Refresh task list.
Edit Process Memory Window allows you to modify different addresses from a process’s memory. This feature is very useful for programmers because they can test the behavior of their products in different simulated environments. Gamers and testers can find this very useful because they can modify a game to obtain infinite lives, money, resources etc.
How it works: Use the Find menu to search the memory for a specified value (8, 16, 32 bit or auto). Fast Defrag will keep all the addresses but will only display 25 of them in the first list. Use Find Next to filtrate the initial values to the one (ones) that you are interested in. Double click on the first list to pull the address and its information into the second list. Double click a value into the working area (the second list) to Poke the address, and right click of the mouse to generate a popup menu that can help. You can Save or Load the founded addresses to an .adr file. You can also use the common list view facilities like the cursor arrows to move, Del key to delete an item, long click to rename etc. Note that some applications may use different memory addresses each time you run them. 

3. System Config allows you to easily manage the programs that are starting with windows, the programs that are currently installed on your PC. You will find other links to many useful utilities and system tweaks.
Uninstall Manager lists all applications, games and tools installed on your computer. You won't have any problems with hidden programs or some software products that for some reasons fail to properly uninstall.
Spyware Protection: Startup Manager: Manage and identify the applications that are running at each Windows session. This module contains features to prevent unwanted applications to run.

4. Fast Options allows you to easily configure FAST Defrag.
Conservative swap file usage
If enabled (like on Win95) Windows will only use the swap file after filling up your systems entire RAM. Data goes in RAM that is a whole lot faster than the hard drive, and afterwards to the hard drive.
If disabled (later versions than Win95) Windows will use both the swap file and RAM at the same time. Some stuff will go into the swap file and some stuff will go into RAM. More time will pass until your entire RAM is filled up.
Note that some new applications won’t work with the conservative swap file. Our advice is to set this option regarding the purpose of the computer. We recommend this feature especially for games and multimedia.
Start with windows
If enabled FAST Defrag will run at system start-up and minimize to tray, to monitor RAM usage and eventually defragment when needed.
Memory Guardian is a tool that helps you to maintain your system for long periods of time.
Unlike other similar products the FAST Defrag Memory Guardian contains a set of instructions that optimize memory depending on numerous aspects: memory percentage, time since last cleanup, processor usage, typical role of the computer: Server or Workstation. Workstation setting is different from Server setting because it will attempt to clean memory more often.
Engine: AMF or SMF?  AMF if the default engine and it’s the fastest. SMF does the same thing as AMF, but using a different algorithm.

Scripting and tray support
Available command line commands:
fast2.exe -tray [run + send to tray]
fast2.exe -silent: [run + memory cleanup + close]
Send To Tray û Hide button
You may allow Fast Defrag to run in the system tray, while monitoring RAM usage and using less resources. You may change the tray icon from the classical memory icon to digits or graphical display. Click on FAST Option and then select the More Options Tab. 

Skin Support: There are two different ways to change FAST Defrag Pro skin: click on the ôFAST Defrag 2 Professionalö Title that is near the AMS logo or click on Fast OptionsαMore OptionsαChoose Skin (from ôSkin Optionsö category). Select the skin and restart the program.

Language Support: is available since version 2.10.82. In the directory where you installed FAST Defrag there is another directory called “Languages”. FAST Defrag will automatically search for language initialization files (with INI extension). You can name them as you wish, but it is recommended that the given name may be accordingly to the language that you wish to translate. Double click on the INI file and you can automatically edit it from notepad. Before proceeding please read carefully the instruction from the beginning of the INI file. After finishing the translation of the INI file or the documentation file, please send us the modified files so we can publish them on our web site.

Ordering FAST Defrag Pro: This version of FAST Defrag is ONLY 8.75 USD. You register FAST Defrag Professional because, as registered user, you help us to further develop and improve this software, making possible new releases and obtain free online support and updates. Your order will be processed by KAGI in the United States. The registration information will be e-mailed to you within one hour to 3 days, depending on when your order was placed and the amount of time required to process your particular order. Please make sure the e-mail address you enter is correct. See our web site for more details.

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Last update January 2004
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