UltimateDefrag is a free disk defragmenting utility for Windows. While defrag utilities are a dime a dozen (cheaper actually, since there are plenty of good free programs). UltimateDefrag sets itself apart from the crowd by letting you give priority to the files and applications that you use the most. Essentially, what that means is UltimateDefrag will move the chunks of data you need the most to the highest priority portions of your hard disk.
While UltimateDefrag's "high priority" feature won't make your programs run any faster, you may notice that programs launch a bit more quickly.
You can choose from several different methods for defragmenting your hard disk. You can process fragmented files only, consolidate your directories so that they're all next to one another on you hard drive, order files and folders by name, organize your disc by the most recently used data, or select the auto feature to let UltimateDefrag decide what's best for your PC.
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5-23-2008 @ 1:43PM
BillyG said...
Somebody doesn't defrag their HD! Mine only had 2 green circles :-)
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5-23-2008 @ 2:00PM
RP said...
Maybe yours is empy? :-)
5-23-2008 @ 2:12PM
RP said...
I had to download it -- anything with a circular diagram must be cool. And it shows you which files are where... a novelty.
Yeah, mine was all green too, but then I clicked the "Analyze" button. The chunks turned mostly blue, with some red.
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5-23-2008 @ 2:30PM
Rocketboy said...
Whoppie, it crashed the first time I tried to stop a defrag and exit.
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5-23-2008 @ 8:18PM
poopy_pants said...
what a waste. the display is kinda neat but the program is a POS. stick with auslogics disk defrag. it's super damn fast and accurate.
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5-23-2008 @ 10:36PM
Jared C. said...
Any clue what this would do to a RAID setup? particularly RAID0
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5-28-2008 @ 3:55PM
Mikado said...
You probably wouldn't like it. Of course, anybody running RAID0 is used to working without a net.
5-24-2008 @ 6:46AM
jfjb said...
don't I remember the good old Norton defrag program used do the same where-do-you-want-your-files, plus the whole nine yards everybody and his sister are doing...
long time no see for a "file-location" contender or am i missing something?
Oh, yes, it's free.
What's a POS, poopy-pants?
This program didn't blow on me, but when I right-click on the drive to get the volume info AFTER analyze was done.
Doesn't crash BEFORE analyze.
Ran a SATA 250GB full at 80% in several hours, yes, but I was drinking beer, so who cares?
Oh... sorry, you want real-time-defrag? Never mind, then.
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5-29-2008 @ 7:58AM
Mikado said...
Reading their "documentation" raises all kinds of red flags. It reads exactly like a used-car huckster wrote it. Often that's a sign of more hype than substance. The defragmenter appears to work well, though the claimed benefits are dubious at best. I also wonder if the defrag program considers block remapping, where a drive reports that it's reading or writing from a certain c/h/s location while physically writing the file where ever it wants to (common on large block devices).
But the display sure is cool looking.
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8-20-2008 @ 1:52PM
Rui said...
I use JKDEFRAG (GNU).
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
It's simple and it can be set as screen saver (for those who forget defragment).
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