Software Update: UltraDefrag 3.2.0

Tuesday, version 3.2.0 of UltraDefrag was released. This open source defragmenter can run on Windows NT and above, and downloads are available for processors with an i386, amd64, ia64, or em64t architecture. The program has a graphical user interface, but can also be controlled from the command line. UltraDefrag is a no-nonsense program: the appearance cannot be adjusted and the software can only be used in a limited number of languages. Also not common is that the download is only half a MB in size. The changelog of this release shows the following changes and improvements:

Changes in version 3.2.0:

• Ultra Fast NTFS scanning feature was added, NTFS analysis becomes approximately 25 times faster now
• defragmentation of additional streams attached to NTFS files was added
• information about trash (temporary files) excluded from reports, statistics and cluster map; these files are completely ignored now
• a lot of new options were added to the console program
• the ?? sequence removed from file names in reports
• Thai translation was made
• some important parts of handbook were completely rewritten
• Scheduler was rewritten in C language; NET framework is not required now!
• ability to translate Scheduler into foreign languages ​​was added
• GUI options were moved from udefrag-gui.cmd script to easy to understand guiopts.lua file
• debugging information will not be saved on disk since this version of the program; read carefully an appropriate chapter of program’s handbook for detailed instructions about kernel mode driver debugging instead
• few fatal driver bugs were fixed
• driver’s reliability was increased
• now UltraDefrag requires less software for its development
• FOR PROGRAMMERS: build configurator was rewritten in Lua
• NOTE FOR PROGRAMMERS: to successfully recompile the driver run configure.pl script and click ‘Apply patch to MinGW’ button once again