UltraDefrag is powerful Open Source defragmentation tool for Windows NT.

UltraDefrag is the first open source disk defragmenter for Windows which supports defragmentation of system locked files by running during the Windows boot process. Also one of the primary goals of the program is doing the job as fast as possible.

It's engine is very fast, because it is created as kernel-mode driver. They are three interfaces to them: graphical, console and native. First is very useful, because it use cluster map visualization. Console is good for task scheduler, and native tool – for advanced users and programmers. Design of the UltraDefrag is very ergonomic: no skins, no localization, no animation and so on. It’s true small and powerful program! It can be used on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. NT 4.0 support is currently unavailable.

Features and restrictions:

• optimal algorithm
• support basic include/exclude filters
• exclude zero-length files and files that are placed in MFT
• full support of compressed files processing
• 'Compact' command optimize free space disposition
• generate useful html report
• nice graphical interface
• doesn't support volumes with more than 4.294.967.295 clusters
• doesn't work on NT 4.0

What's New:

• few important bugs in disk processing routines were fixed
• few bugs in MFT optimizer were fixed
• one bug causing boot time interface freeze after "Good bye..." message was fixed
• the following translations were updated:
  • Finnish, Indonesian, Italian
• some additions to the tips, FAQ and GUI sections of the documentation