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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows XP
- Date added: October 29, 2006
- Total Downloads: 51,639
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- Average user rating: stars out of 56 votes
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Publisher's description
From DiskTrix :UltimateDefrag lets you defrag and optimize your hard drive any way you want to. Hard drive file use adheres to the Pareto Rule of 80/20. 80% of the time you only use 20% of the files on your hard drive. UltimateDefrag lets you place those unused files out of the way onto the slower tracks of your drive. UltimateDefrag also considers the high performance areas of your hard drive (the outer tracks) and enables you to strategically place the files and folders you want the best performance from to these faster outer tracks. UltimateDefrag also provides the first true disk display metaphor in a defragger. UltimateDefrag can place Directories next to your MFT for very fast MFT/Directory transactions. This alone vastly accelerates performance of your hard drive. Includes over 55 total defrag method combinations. When done right, your hard drive performance will increase by up to 100%.
Version 1.29 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews of UltimateDefrag 1.29
- Average user rating: 3.7 stars out of 56 votes
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: UltimateDefrag 1.29
Pros: I'm using the trial version right now but this program seems to be very very good. It's different from anything I'v ever seen.
Cons: Nothing
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2 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: UltimateDefrag 1.29
Pros: Many defrag options let you attempt to organize your data almost any way you like.
Cons: 1) The interface, displays & functions are rather unpolished, & often times the display will stop updating leaving you wondering whether it has crashed or frozen, which it does frequently under Windows XP SP2.
2) The percent complete stops updating quite often & is rarely if ever anywhere near accurate. I don't expect it to be perfect as it is an approximation, but it is nowhere even in the ball park. Sometimes it will say 98% or even 100% throughout the entire defrag process, other times it will stick on say 39% for example, seems to be one of it's favorite numbers, even when it is clearly 90-95% defragged.
3) It has it's own skin which does not fit well with Windows XP, & the default XP buttons re-appear ontop of it's own when you mouse over them - very tacky. Not something I would expect to see in any program with such a high price tag. I could not see spending top dollar on this in it's current condition, it's just not on par with other products in this range, although I think it has potential to possibly become better than others with some more work.
4) I find the circular disk representation a little hard on the eyes. Even if it were more polished in it's appearance, I don't find it any better to read than the traditional style with colored blocks running left to right & top to bottom in a rectangular area. I like the idea of the circular disk representation in theory, but in practice the traditional style is actually much easier on the eyes.
5) It invariably leaves certain file types fragmented that I have to go back through with other defraggers to clean up afterward. It gets the bulk, but it does not seem to be able to do an entirely thorough defrag job in it's present build v1.28.
In summary, the program in it's current condition does not seem to be of professional quality. Seems more like an amateur personal project, in which case I would say 2 thumbs up, or freeware or beta still in development etc.. perhaps a diamond in the rough, time may tell.
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Version: UltimateDefrag 1.29
Pros: Defrag creates much faster boot times after defrag using File Folder mode. (follow instructions, i.e. recommended file order)
Notwithstanding the comments from other reviewers, I like the disc picture interface.
BOTTOM LINE: Excellent defragger. I have used several, and this one clearly performs the best defrag for those seeking better performance.
Cons: Would like to see an option for placing files at the end of outer track files. (i.e. following the high-performance files)
No check for updates option available. I do not like autoupdate features, but would like to see a check for updates button.
Be wary of placing video files on the inner tracks, playback sucks because the disc read is too slow.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: UltimateDefrag 1.29
Pros: - Can manually decide the placement of files.
- Small size.
Cons: - Tacky, amateurish interface.
- Authors claim only 1% free space is required to defrag, and this wasn't true on my system. The program wasn't able to defrag a drive with 4% free space. On one drive with 14% free space all it did was move some files around without eliminating the fragments.
- The author's theory that making partitions slows down a drive is unclear and unfavourable in a real world scenario. They say that every partition becomes 10% slower than the one preceding it as you keep going toward the center of the disk. It doesn't explain how it affects drives having multiple platters. It also doesn't consider how various RAID levels affect the speed.
- Doesn't have intelligent (automatic) file placement, scheduling and resource usage strategies unlike its competitors.
- Cannot be run as a service.
- Limited features.
- Overpriced. Diskeeper 2007 Home is available for only $29.95, and PerfectDisk 8 for $39.99
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