Download UltraDefrag 6.0 Beta 2

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The second beta release of version 6.0 of UltraDefrag has been released. This open source defragmenter can do its job on Windows NT and above. Separate downloads are available for 32bit, 64bit, and ia64 environments, and are only a few hundred kilobytes on average. More information about this program and its possibilities is on this page to find. Below you will find everything that has changed in this release and the first beta from early November.

Changes in version 6.0 beta 2:

  • Added progress indication to the taskbar button for Windows 7 and more recent Windows editions; it can be turned on/off by show_progress_in_taskbar GUI option
  • File fragmentation reports moved from the root directories of the drives to the /reports sub-folder of the program’s directory
  • Added ability to configure the Explorer’s context menu handler; an appropriate section added to guiopts.lua file
  • Bug fix: UD_IN_FILTER forced to be not ignored when individual files/directories are specified on the command line
  • Bug fix: UD_SORTING and UD_SORTING_ORDER environment variables forced to be set properly on GUI startup according to the Preview menu selections
  • Added prefixes for all the debugging messages for easier analysis of logs
  • Internals: many prototypes changed in zenwinx, udefrag, wgx libraries; obsolete routines removed
  • Winx_bootex_check routine added to zenwinx library
  • Udefrag_init_library, udefrag_unload_library, udefrag_bootex_check, udefrag_bootex_register, udefrag_bootex_unregister routines added
  • WgxSetTaskbarProgressState, WgxSetTaskbarProgressValue, wgx_sprintf, wgx_vsprintf, wgx_swprintf, wgx_vswprintf routines added to wgx library
  • Tracing macros for easier debugging added to zenwinx.h and wgx.h files
  • Windows Server 2003 DDK support dropped because of lack of variadic macros support there – use Windows Driver Kit v7.1.0 instead
  • The following translations were updated:
    • Catalan

Changes in version 6.0 beta 1:

  • All the disk processing algorithms were reimplemented to reach better efficiency and shorter processing times
  • FAT optimization was implemented
  • Ability to sort files on the disk by the disk optimization was added; files can be sorted by path, size, creation time, last modification time, last access time – in eighter ascending or descending order
  • Ability to filter out files by size of their fragments was added (fragment_size_threshold option in GUI; UD_FRAGMENT_SIZE_THRESHOLD environment variable in command line tool and boot time interface)
  • Ability to tune the disk optimization by UD_OPTIMIZER_FILE_SIZE_THRESHOLD environment variable (optimizer_file_size_threshold GUI option) was added
  • Ability to suspend/resume the running job was added to GUI
  • Ability to minimize the program to the taskbar notification area (system tray) was added; it can be turned on/off by minimize_to_system_tray GUI option
  • MFT optimization was forced to do nothing silently on non-NTFS disks
  • Quite useless cyan color removed from the cluster map
  • Icons were redesigned to reach better appearance on Windows Vista and above
  • High DPI screen support was improved
  • Internals: flags field removed from winx_file_disposition structure
  • Many zenwinx prototypes changed by replacing short keyword by wchar_t
  • Useless fat32_xxx fields removed from winx_volume_information structure
  • Device_capacity field added to winx_volume_information structure
  • WgxShowWindow and WgxHideWindow definitions added to wgx.h file
  • WgxSetProcessPriority routine added to wgx library
  • Windows Server 2003 DDK needs to be patched in order to compile the program; look at rsc/compilation.dox for details

Version number 6.0 beta 2
Release status beta
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8
Website SourceForge
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File size

666.00kB

License type GPL
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