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two more defrag tools - "UltraDefrag" and "Advanced Defrag"

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Lutz_:
I just came a cross these two defraggers which seem to have not been mentioned yet in all the defrag discussions here.

-  UltraDefrag is an open source project which claims to provide a comparatively fast defragmentation.  The program has many of the advanced options found in commercial defraggers and also in MyDefrag.   I have not tried the program myself yet.  According to their forum, the next version should have a much faster full hard drive optimization procedure.
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/overview.html

- Advanced Defrag presents some novelties.  The website claims that it defragments MFT, registry , as well as the regular files all without requiring a re-boot and boot-time defragmentation. I gave it a try and it is doing "something" as advertised.  I do not have the expertise to figure out how successful the defragmentation really is.  The fragmentation scan is extremely fast compared to Perfect Disk or Puran Defrag. The simple defragmentation is also  quite fast, but the full optimization took about 20 hours on a 100 GB harddrive that was only half full and previously defragged with Advanced Defrag.  The background defragmentation option did not slow down my computer at all.  You might want to be careful, as the registry defrag also carries out "registry fixes" without offering a backup or an option to decline the fixes. I have not had any problems due to the about 20 fixes it carried out.  Not very confidence inspiring is the lack of a physical address on the Advanced Defrag website.  The authors English seems to need some polishing; but so does mine.   ;)
http://www.advanceddefrag.com/

Does anybody else have any experience with these tools?

f0dder:
The arrogance of the UltraDefrag developers doesn't really make me want to even try the app... also, quickly browsing their documentation I couldn't find any reason why they're implementing the defragmentation as a driver - there has to be a darned good reason to do this because of all the problems it imposes, but yet they don't write about it in any easy to locate place :huh:

Innuendo:
The arrogance of the UltraDefrag developers doesn't really make me want to even try the app...-f0dder (December 02, 2009, 02:10 AM)
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Any app that has to have UAC disabled in order to work will never touch my hard drive.

f0dder:
The arrogance of the UltraDefrag developers doesn't really make me want to even try the app...-f0dder (December 02, 2009, 02:10 AM)
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Any app that has to have UAC disabled in order to work will never touch my hard drive.
-Innuendo (December 02, 2009, 12:10 PM)
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Not just UAC, but also driver signing...

MrCrispy:
That app gives a bad name to open source - as if most OSS needs to run as full admin with unsigned drivers!

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