
Changes in UltimateDefrag 1.32:
NEW FEATURES
1. Option To Respect the Windows
Layout.ini File for Optimal File Layout. The Layout.ini file is a file
generated by the Windows prefetcher. Each time you launch a program or
reboot your system, Windows prefetcher studies the file access patterns
of each program launch or the boot sequence. It stores these files in
the Prefetch folder with a .PF extension. Every 3 days, Windows will
analyze each .pf file in the prefetch folder and will generate a file
that lists the optimum file and folder layout on the disk. This file is
called Layout.ini. Windows itself performs a boot optimization process
every 3 days where it looks for a contiguous free space that it can use
to place files required for optimum system bootup performance. This is
however only a partial attempt and is not necessarily placed on the
outermost tracks. When selected, UltimateDefrag will layout files in
the entire layout.ini file in exact order as specified by the Optimal
File Layout. These files are placed at the very outer tracks. The
result of this is a very significant performance increase at bootup and
during launching of most programs.
2. Added Ability to Sort The Order Of File Extension Types. When you
wish to select files of a particular extension for High Performance (or
archive), you can sort the order of these files by clicking and
dragging. e.g. if you select all files with .EXE and .DLL extension for
the high performance section, you can reorder the order that files are
placed. If EXE is at the top of the list and DLL second, the program
will (after archive has been taken care of first) lay out all files
with .EXE extension first and then files with .DLL extension.
3. Added Ability To Process High Performance And Then Stop the Defrag.
In the event that you may only wish to defrag, process and optimize the
files you have selected for High Performance e.g. the Layout.ini file
or files from a specific folder you may have selected for High
Performance, you can have UltimateDefrag perform that only and then
stop the defrag. This has been added as an extra option under each
defrag method.
4. Added additional Statistics Tab under Volume Information. These
additional statistics are updated dynamically and provide such
information as number of fragments and average fragments per file.
5. Added screensaver mode. When this option is selected, defrag does not run until screensaver becomes active.
6. Added ability to change legend colors through a menu option
BUG FIXES
- A bug in the consolidate method was causing some files to be ignored on some machines
- Shut Down PC and Restart PC after scheduled defrag would not occur on some machines
- Maximum Resource Usage was not displaying the default 100%