Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Open Source
Open source disk tool UltraDefrag hits version 4.0
by Lee Mathews Feb 8th 2010 at 9:33AM
If you haven't heard it mentioned before with other disk defragmenters, UltraDefrag is a solid open source alternative to tools like MyDefrag and Auslogics' Disk Defrag.
Ultra Defrag is packed with functionality, offering whole disk defragmentation and optimization, file and folder defragging (via your right-click context menu), boot-time defragging, and scheduled jobs. The boot-time job allows UltraDefrag to take care of locked system files like pagefile.sys and your registry hives, which are locked while Windows is running.
While UltraDefrag v4.0 isn't the project's first major release, its developers consider this to be the first 'non-beta' due to past issues with reliability. The new version is fast, and after testing it on three different Windows 7 systems (including x64) those problems seem to have been fixed.
Downloads are available for both 32 and 64-bit Windows versions, and both an installer and portable option are provided.
Ultra Defrag is packed with functionality, offering whole disk defragmentation and optimization, file and folder defragging (via your right-click context menu), boot-time defragging, and scheduled jobs. The boot-time job allows UltraDefrag to take care of locked system files like pagefile.sys and your registry hives, which are locked while Windows is running.
While UltraDefrag v4.0 isn't the project's first major release, its developers consider this to be the first 'non-beta' due to past issues with reliability. The new version is fast, and after testing it on three different Windows 7 systems (including x64) those problems seem to have been fixed.
Downloads are available for both 32 and 64-bit Windows versions, and both an installer and portable option are provided.
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Helios said 10:51AM on 2-08-2010
Puran Defrag Free Edition (Free for private and non-commercial use only) beats any of those free Defragmenters
Boot time/MFT defrag too.
http://www.puransoftware.com/Puran-Defrag-Download.html
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mazzthepianoman said 11:57AM on 2-10-2010
I have been using MyDefrag but I am curious to know if anybody has compared how well the optimization works when compared to Ultra Defrag.
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