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I've been thinking about this defrag UI bug, and have started to wonder if they are working on the code to bring it over into the Settings app under Storage where it actually belongs now, whether anyone like it or not.
I mean, like everyone else I would prefer a defrag UI that would show the pretty colored blocks being moved around, but that cost system recourses, totally unnecessarily.
Nope something more powerful: UltraDefrag download | SourceForge.net
You can fully optimize a hard disk at boot if you set the script up this way, Example for C: drive
Code:@echo off ;-------------------------------------------------------------------- ; UltraDefrag Boot Time Shell Script ;-------------------------------------------------------------------- ; !!! NOTE: THIS FILE MUST BE SAVED IN UNICODE (UTF-16) ENCODING !!! ;-------------------------------------------------------------------- ;set UD_IN_FILTER=*windows*;*winnt*;*ntuser*;*pagefile.sys;*hiberfil.sys ;set UD_EX_FILTER=*temp*;*tmp*;*dllcache*;*ServicePackFiles* ; exclude big fragments which rarely benefit from defragmentation ; set UD_FRAGMENT_SIZE_THRESHOLD=20MB ; if your system drive is an SSD uncomment the following ; line to exclude slightly fragmented content as well ; set UD_FRAGMENTS_THRESHOLD=20 ; uncomment the following line to increase amount of debugging output ; set UD_DBGPRINT_LEVEL=DETAILED ; uncomment the following line to save debugging output to a log file set UD_LOG_FILE_PATH=%UD_INSTALL_DIR%\logs\ud-boot-time.log udefrag -o C: udefrag %SystemDrive% boot-on exit
Most of those "newly discovered" bugs are either longstanding or recurring. Mention of them pops up with every new build and we all marvel about how could have they missed it now and than they fade away or get fixed until next build. Some would inevitably make out of it a "tempest in a teacup" while MS says that it's looked at and will be fixed soon.
Altogether, why the heck are we surprised ?
For me, defrag is not important at all, fragmentation has been minimal ever since W7 and haven't gone past a percent or so even with autodefrag is off. I just run manually Optimize on SSDs about once a month. Here's a HDD that wasn't ever optimized in couple of years and used for transient storage only.
And second HDD even older (3 years) used for everything including downloads and temporary data
As long as there is enough free space fragmentation is minimal to non existent.