UltraDefrag
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| Original author(s) | Dmitri Arkhangelski, Justin Dearing |
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| Stable release | 4.4
/ September 24, 2010 |
| Written in | C, JavaScript, Lua |
| Operating system | Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows 2003 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows XP x64 Edition Windows 7 |
| Type | Defragmentation program |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net |
'http://forums.malwarebytes.org/index.php?showtopic=68060 UltraDefrag' is an open source disk defragmenting utility for Microsoft Windows. The software was originally written by Dmitri Arkhangelski in 2007, who was later joined by Justin Dearing who wrote an original user manual and UltraDefrag Scheduler application. Later Sayem Chaklader joined the team to completely redesign the project's website. Also he improved graphics belonging to the UltraDefrag project. In the year 2009 Stefan Pendl joined the team. Most new features and improvements since that time were invented by him. UltraDefrag is released under the GNU General Public License.
Features
- Defragments system files (registry, pagefiles...)
- Fast NTFS analysis compared to some other products
- Fast and effective operation (completely defragments without additional passes)
- Safe operation to prevent file damage
- Ability to defragment single file/directory from the context menu in Explorer
- Ability to defragment additional streams attached to NTFS files
- Ability to exclude any unimportant files based on flexible filters
- Ability to defragment files which have number of fragments above specified threshold
- Ability to automatically break defragmentation when the specified time interval elapses
- Human-readable HTML reports
- Powerful command line interface
- Ability to automatically hibernate/shutdown PC after a job
- Ability to make an automatic effective defragmentation through Windows Task Scheduler
- Multilingual graphical interface
- Small binaries (less than 500 kb)
- Portable version available which requires no installation
- Native 64-bit support
- Open-source code licensed under the GNU General Public License
UltraDefrag uses Microsoft's defragmentation API and works on Windows NT, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, and 7 operating systems. It supports FAT12/16/32 and NTFS file systems and, on Windows Vista and later, the Universal Disk Format.
For a list of other defragmentation software products, see list of defragmentation software. The only other Windows-based defrag program with a GNU GPL license is JkDefrag (GPL version discontinued since 2008).
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