What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.67

• PerfectDisk Client
1. Build 66 inadvertently checked the floppy drive file system even though this drive would never be defragmented. This has been fixed.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.66

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Setting License Key Wizard in non-wizard mode (Tab Mode) did not work correctly. This has been fixed.
2. We corrected a bug in thread pool on console which could have caused the Console to crash in high activity conditions.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. When Bitlocker was enabled, boot time defrag passes would abort since bitlocker prevented updating certain files. PerfectDisk has worked around this issue.
2. We corrected a bug in memory allocation when performing boot-time defrag passes on X64 processors.
3. We changed the boot-time defrag Verify stage to allow the bad cluster file to point to cluster which do not reside on the disk. This can occur if the volume was resized after bad clusters where identified.
4. PerfectDisk will no longer display drives which cannot be defragmented. We will only display fixed drives formatted NTFS, FAT, or FAT32.
5. We corrected a bug in the file exclusion enumeration. In earlier versions we would have attempted to move files in the System Volume Information folder even though they were excluded. This was do to the fact that these files did not allow the LocalSystem account to open them so the name could be converted to a File ID. This bug has been corrected.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.64

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. When viewing the History dialog, the text display was sometimes poorly formatted. This has been fixed.
2. Console incorrectly displayed the Last Run Date for a computer added to an existing schedule. This has been fixed.
3. Code was added to support adding computers to a group using the fully qualified domain name (ComputerName.Domain.com).
• PerfectDisk Client
1. Code was added to exclude certain SafeBoot encryption files. Moving these files could cause your computer to become non-bootable.
2. If your drive was very large PerfectDisk displayed some of the statistics using scientific notation. This has been fixed.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.63

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. If you ran the Fragmentation report, the Alert report and the Fragmentation report again, some columns disappeared. This has been fixed.
2. When Saving or Printing the Alert report, an extra column was added. This is was a hidden column used for initial sorting. This has been fixed.
3. In the Managed Computers dialog, Vista machines were not displayed. This has been fixed.
4. When using the Configure Client Settings Wizard, you could set the Proxy settings associated with the AutoUpdate settings, however you could not clear them. This has been fixed.
5. On the Machine View tab, the Next Scheduled Run date was not always populated. This can occur if you have a one time schedule which has already been executed. This has been fixed.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. When performing a boot-time defrag pass on Vista with the pagefile on a non-system drive, you received an Access Denied message. This was due to the IO manager opening and closing a handle to the pagefile. NTFS does not monitor for closing of the pagefile. We have worked around this issue.
2. When performing a boot-time defrag pass on a volume which was shrunken using the Drive Manager on Vista, PerfectDisk failed with a buffer overflow error. This was because when the drive was shrunken, the $Bitmap file was not reduced to match the drive size. We have worked around this issue.
3. Single file defrag was not supported on unmounted drives. This has been fixed.
4. There was a display issue when manually defragmenting an Exchange data store. This has been corrected.
5. When un-installing PerfectDisk you sometimes received the following error in the event log:
   "SELECT * FROM PDEvent" whose target class "PDEvent" does not exist".
   This has been fixed.
6. When using Find File the color displayed for the selected file sometimes changed. There was a bug which caused this if the first block being displayed contained files of different categories. This has been fixed.
7. Changes were made to the Screen Saver schedule to stop quicker on Win2000 and XP, and to run on Vista.
8. Localization support was added for German and Japanese.
9. Unmovable files were sometimes listed twice in the statistics. This has been fixed.
10. The UI could sometimes exit on a race condition when defragmenting multiple Exchange data stores. This only affected the display and not the actual defrag pass. This has been corrected.
11. If a boot-time defrag pass was set for next reboot, and an online defrag pass was executed on the same drive, the offline pass was cancelled. This has been fixed.
12. Fixed a display issue with PerfectDisk logs. If your time zone was GMT+ then log display was incorrect and delayed. You would observe the log file as being empty until some period of time passed and them the logs would populate. This has been fixed.
13. Additional code was added to allow PerfectDisk for Exchange to log more information to the application event log.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.58

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Corrected column sorting issues in the Console machine view and Reports.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. We added code to store the column widths on the Exchange Tab.
2. Corrected the boot file management options for Vista. Originally we only allowed PerfectDisk Manage and Disable
3. Corrected a bug when displaying statistics. The bug caused the statistics to be listed twice when displayed.
4. Corrected a schedule bug which was preventing online defrag schedules from starting when they were preceeded by an offline schedule.
5. Worked around a hardware driver issue on XP, Win2000 and Windows Server 2003 which effected boot-time defrag. In Srv03 & Vista a new storage control, IOCTL_DISK_COPY_DATA, was added that defrag operations should attempt to use when moving file data to accomplish two results:
   • reduce the problem of VolSnap.sys shapshots being prematurely purged and
   • increase performance where the underlying hardware may be able to "move" file data by just shuffling pointers.
   If this new control fails, data is moved the normal brute force way (i.e. read it from here and write it to there). We have discovered that some hardware reported success when indeed they failed to correctly redirect the pointers. This issue can cause data loss.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.54

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Build 50 introduced some bugs with GUI resizing and positioning. These have been resolved.
2. We have modified the Command Center database to perform faster when using SQL Server or the Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine (MSDE). These performance improvements are automatic for new installations of the Command Center using SQL Server/MSDE. Existing Command Center installations will require modification of the database. To modify an existing SQL Server based database, please see knowledge base article 598.
3. Enhancement: Changes were made to display the computer information row by row instead of waiting for all rows before displaying any information.
4. Fixed numerous issues with the Managed Computer Dialog. Renaming, and moving groups caused the UI to exit.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. Build 50 introduced some bugs with GUI resizing and positioning. These have been resolved.
2. When defragmenting sparse files, PerfectDisk did not do a perfect job. This has been corrected.
3. A bug effecting PDAgent on 64-bit platforms has been corrected. The bug preventing PDAgent from starting.
4. The statistics display was modified to only display 100 files in the Excluded Files tab. Previously PerfectDisk displayed them all and this could cause significant delays. In some cases it took up to an hour to display 25,000 excluded files.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.50

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Fixed a bug which caused excessive delays when changing the password of managed clients.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. PerfectDisk is now Certified for Windows Vista. Minor changes were made to meet the certification requirements.
2. We changed when the last schedule run time is updated to prevent some scheduler conflicts when two or more schedules were set to run at the same time.
3. Fixed a boot-time defrag limitation when external attributes were too large.
4. Fixed a bug in the post defrag statistics. The elpased time and CPU time did not support values greater than 24 hours. This has been fixed.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.48

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Fixed SQL statements for Schedule, and Historic Fragmentation reports.
2. Dropped the auto-refresh frequency of the Command Center to once every 30 minutes.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. No changes

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.45

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Corrected a bug which caused the password used on deployment to be incorrectly encrypted. This resulted in a bad length or bad data error on deployment of PerfectDisk from the Command Center.
2. Alternate synchronize interface is available for customers experiencing sync issues.
3. Added a registry value to block going to the Raxco web site when clicking on the Online Resource Tab.
4. Fixed a SQL statement for SQL 2000 and SQL 2005 servers.
5. Added more detail to the error messages when the Command Center fails to connect to a client.
6. Stopped the auto-refresh function from rerunning reports. This was causing the report data to change while you were reviewing it.
7. Stopped the auto-refresh function from refreshing the Online Resources Tab.
8. Increased the size of the History Dialog.
9. Corrected various sort issues where data was not being sorted according to its data type (dates, numbers, text).
10. Added support for non-English characters to the email notifications (utf-7 encoding).
11. Help Files have been updated.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. Added additional code to support Vista. This still requires the special Vista Beta from Raxco Software.
2. Added a registry value to block going to the Raxco web site when clicking on the Online Resource Tab.
3. Fixed a bug where the disk bitmap was not being updated when it should have been.
4. Added code to clean up the WMI database when uninstalling PerfectDisk on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
5. Corrected a display issue when resizing the screen.
6. Added code to prevent the same file type being used in multiple File Type Groups. For example, .txt can now only belong to a single file type group.
7. Corrected various sort issues where data was not being sorted according to its data type (dates, numbers, text).
8. Changed the defrag driver to support Vista on X64 platforms. This still requires the special Vista Beta from Raxco Software.
9. Help Files have been updated.

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.35

• PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Some enhancements were made to the Command Center:
   Command Center will refresh every 30 seconds to get the latest data
   Reports are now color coded to indicate alerts/warnings
   Print functionality was added to Reports
   Ability to connect to a remote computer was added to the Report results
2. Several changes were made to the Managed Computers functionality. Browsing computers was fixed and made faster. Bugs were corrected when manually adding computers. Enhancements were incorporated to make it easier to know when computers did not have assigned logins.
3. Screen Saver and One-time schedules were added to the Schedule Report.
4. Remote Desktop Connection does not work if the Command Center is on a X64 or IA64 operating system. This has been corrected but will require an un-install and re-install of the Command Center.
5. You could not edit a screen saver schedule from the Command Center. This has been corrected.
6. Email notification did not always work as expected. We have fixed this and tried to give more meaningful error messages if the email configuration is not valid.
• PerfectDisk Client
1. Some enhancements were made to PerfectDisk:
   Ability to abort a schedule shutdown was added to the Tools menu
   Additional statistics were added including a Drive Performance Rating and historical file and free space fragmentation trends
   Print functionality was added to the logs and statistics.
2. When installing v8.0 over an existing v7.0 installation, some PerfectDisk v7.0 settings were not correctly migrated to v8.0. This has been corrected.
3. When using Config.ini to preconfigure all v8.0 schedules, settings, etc, some values were not correctly set. This has been corrected.
4. Schedule maximum duration was incorrectly set if the schedule included both online and offline passes. This has been corrected.
5. Even though a schedules pass should occur in series, it some times started defragging all drives in parallel. This was due to a timing condition and has been fixed.
6. There were some issues with single file defrag and excluding files on mount points. This has been corrected.
7. There were several Exchange defrag issues with configuration settings and schedules. They have all been fixed.