GiveAwayOfTheDay is legit. Never got anything malicious from them.
As Andavari has said, much of the software isnt so great, but they have offered some nice software like BurnAware Home Edition and DefenceWall HIPS.
2. Try making the disk map bigger:
3. I would try cleaning up the drive and getting more free space. Also you can try defragging only a certain number of files at a time or defrag files with the fewest fragments first then move on to more fragmented files.
Here is the previous thread but no response
Will the default settings not be changed? Anything under #SharedObjects is ok for deletion but settings.sol should be kept.
Shouldnt Recuva portable save its settings to an INI file (by default) just like CCleaner portable does?
I found that that option is actually unchecked by default.
Heres how I see it:
Defragging - grouping all of a files segments together so its no longer fragmented
Compacting (aka consolidating) - groups free space into one large chunk so newly created files arent fragmented
Optimizing - organizing the files based on access or modification date, or by file name.