Download UltraDefrag 5.0.0 RC2

Version 5.0.0 of UltraDefrag is in development and the second release candidate has now 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. Since beta 3, the following changes and improvements have been made to the program:

Changes in RC2:

• ability to defragment NTFS attribute lists was added
• check for the volume dirty flag was added to the volume analysis
• ability to select all disks by pressing Ctrl+A was added to GUI
• ability to analyze disk by pressing Enter or double-clicking on the list row was added to GUI
• the following translations were updated:
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Italian
  • Iloko
  • Czech
  • Slovakia
  • Portuguese (BR),
  • Romanian
  • Filipino (Tagalog)
  • Catalan
  • Spanish (ES)
  • Hungarian,
  • farsia
  • Yiddish
• installer has been enhanced in the following ways:
  • usage tracking can be enabled/disabled during silent installations using the /S switch:
    • /DISABLE_USAGE_TRACKING … enable/disable usage tracking through the web
• added command script to create translation report as text/plain and text/wiki
• few little bugs in volume processing routines were fixed
• volume letter being processed was added to GUI title
• a header was added to ‘udefrag -l’ command output
• Internals: coding style changed: tabs replaced by four spaces
• is_dirty flag added to winx_volume_information (zenwinx.h) and volume_info (udefrag.h) structures

Changes in RC1:

• FILTER SYNTAX CHANGED to provide better flexibility
• ability to defragment folder itself without defragmentation of its contents added to the context menu of Windows Explorer
• GUI options forced to be not overwritten at GUI program exit
• MFT optimization implemented
• repeat action menu and toolbar button were added to GUI
• –repeat command line switch was added to the console interface and to the boot time defragmenter
• volume label is now displayed by the console interface for -l and -la switches
• ability to defragment a few more internal NTFS files ($Secure streams
• $Extend folder and its subfolders) was added
• ability to defragment reparse points was added
• all the volume processing routines were optimized for speed
• one bug causing incorrect time limit treatment was fixed
• added display of the time limit at boot time
• MFT zone draw was adjusted to be more precise and correct
• few bugs in cluster map redraw algorithm were fixed
• few bugs in volume processing routines were fixed
• console interface help screen now includes examples
• the following translations were added:
  • Latin
  • Hebrew
  • Javanese
  • Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
  • Spanish (MEX)
• the following translations were updated:
  • Portuguese (BR)
  • Yiddish
  • Hungarian
  • Spanish (ES)
  • English
  • Finnish
  • Italian
  • Iloko
  • Filipino (Tagalog)
  • Catalan
  • Danish
  • Norwegian
  • Portuguese
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Korean
• installer has been enhanced in the following ways:
  • now checks Mutex to prevent install/remove while the program is running
  • installer supports full, micro edition and custom installation
  • component selections are remembered between installations
  • interfaces can be selected individually
  • shortcut icons can be selected individually
  • all selections can be done through command line switches during silent installations using the /S switch:
    • /FULL ………….. install full edition
    • /MICRO …………. install micro edition (no GUI, no help, no icons)
    • /ICONS …………. install/remove all shortcut icons
    • /BOOT ………….. install/remove boot time component
    • /CONSOLE ……….. install/remove console component
    • /GUI …………… install/remove GUI component
    • /HELP ………….. install/remove documentation
    • /SHELLEXTENSION …. install/remove Explorer context menu handler
    • /STARTMENUICON ….. install/remove start menu icon
    • /DESKTOPICON ……. install/remove desktop icon
    • /QUICKLAUNCHICON … install/remove quick launch icon
• one little bug causing log file path truncation in GUI was fixed
• one bug causing infinite loops in volume optimization was fixed
• progress percentage calculation was improved
• volume analysis was allowed for full disks having no free space
• Internals: winx_create_mutex, winx_open_mutex, winx_release_mutex, winx_destroy_mutex, winx_stristr, winx_wcsmatch, winx_patcmp, winx_defrag_fopen, winx_defrag_fclose functions added to zenwinx library
• binary tree manipulation routines were added to zenwinx library; they’re based on the GNU libavl red-black trees with parent pointers
• winx_fbsize, winx_dfbsize, udefrag_fbsize, udefrag_dfbsize routines replaced by winx_bytes_to_hr, winx_hr_to_bytes, udefrag_bytes_to_hr, udefrag_hr_to_bytes routines in zenwinx and udefrag libraries
• winx_exit_thread prototype changed by adding the exit status parameter
• zenwinx_native_init and zenwinx_native_unload routines replaced by winx_init_library and winx_unload_library routines respectively
• winx_init_failed and winx_kb_init routines added to zenwinx library
• winx_init routine removed from zenwinx library
• WINX_FTW_SKIP_RESIDENT_STREAMS flag added to winx_ftw and winx_scan_disk routines
• WgxGetToolbarBitmapForMenu, WgxCreateMenuBitmapMasked functions added
• calling conventions removed from all the function prototypes in all the libraries
• silent mode (-s switch) added to lua5.1a_gui program