System - Disk Defragmenters (7)

While PageDefrag does what it says, i prefer UltraDefrag.
It's GPL, but not Portable by default, last i checked.
On the flip side as making it Portable we can put the
performance-sensitive files on the fastest area on the
Drive, the beginning.
Check with Windows Defrag (dfrg.msc) first, in case the swapfile
is already near the beginning. In rare cases i've seen old
UltraDefrag versions put the swap last on the drive. ouch
As always before Defrag, i suggest running chkdsk /f.


Create this file in Notepad, Save As Unicode-format.
ud-boot-time.cmd
;THIS FILE MUST BE SAVED AS UNICODE (UTF-16)
set UD_IN_FILTER=Pagefile;SysEvent;AppEvent;SecEvent;Windows\System32\config;ntuser;usrclass
udefrag -o -m c:
boot-off
echo boot-off
exit


UltraDefrag.bat
ultradefrag-3.3.0.bin.i386.exe /S
copy /y ud-boot-time.cmd %windir%\System32
%ProgramFiles%\UltraDefrag\bootexctrl /r defrag_native
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce /v unud /d "cmd /c %windir%\UltraDefrag\uninstall.exe /S" /f
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce /v unuc /d "cmd /c del %windir%\System32\ud-boot-time.cmd" /f
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce /v unul /d "cmd /c del %windir%\..\fraglist.luar" /f
reg add HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce /v unug /d "cmd /c rd /s /q %windir%\UltraDefrag" /f

The path to bootexctrl may differ on UltraDefrag versions!

Run the bat and UltraDefrag runs at next reboot.
And then uninstalls next time you login.

I know this thread is a bit old now, but I wanted to comment on UltraDefrag.

It's a great application, and my preferred choice of the two as well. Thanks for your post on this u64. I wanted to note that now there is a portal version available from the sourceforge.net website for UltraDefrag, but it doesn't support boot time defrag since without installation, there would be no ud-boot-time.cmd file in the system32 directory. It can created and put in there, then the portable application will allow you to enable boot time defrag. This way you can avoid the install and uninstall with the UltraDefrag.bat script above. Good script though. But then, if it's a portable installation on a removable device, you probably shouldn't run boot time config unless that device is connected and accessible at boot time.

The download link does not work; available from the website ie here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx

The recent and current version (v1) have been very good on my Windows XP SP3 system. I went back to WinContig because for some reason the recent version of Defraggler is really slower than before on my computer. I like Defraggler too, but this newer version of WinContig is extremely fast and I like the built in system check and deleting of temporary files. I like defraggler's interface better, but they are both excellent programs. The wonderful thing about freeware is we can use both! Thanks to the WinContig creator(s) for making another excellent fuss-free program. The exclusion list is also really handy.

aw, i just ran v1 and it crashed on my XP SP3 system. So I guess they don't have all the bugs worked out yet. To bad.

OK, I ran a newer version on my XP SP3 system and it worked just fine. Thanks for a nice easy defrag program with some nice display information and command line features. I actually like how the pre-version 1 versions looked better (less cluttered), but at least this works and doesn't crash and is portable and simple.

Instructions say to remove unnecessary language files, how do you tell when they are numbered, not named?
Also suggest remove either 32, or 64 bit files which are bundled.

@rogerthedodger

I believe Piriform uses standard LCID (locale IDs), English US (1033), English UK (2057), and so on.

... see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb895996.aspx for more LCIDs

Sorry, I should be a bit more clear...

Piriform uses LCIDs as defined by Microsoft
... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664 may offer a bit more info.

I'm not sure if Apple uses a similar system - useless FYI :)

v2.0 available!!
http://www.withopf.com/tools/hdiskdefrag/

Dependencies: Needs admin rights