What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 Build 64
- Bug Fixes
- Several bug fixes and enhancements in PerfectDisk's defragmentation driver.
- System tray icon shows that PerfectDisk is idle while defragmenting.
- Potential vulnerability of calling CreateProcess() or ShellExecute() functions without using quoted paths.
- Defragmentation of Virtual Machine host files does not work with all options unchecked.
What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 Build 63
- New Features
- Support for per-user quotas set with File Server Resource Manager.
What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 Build 61
- New Features
- PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware is bundled with VMware DiskMount Utility.
- Bug Fixes
- PerfectDisk works incorrectly if per-user quotas are being used.
- Active Directory tree does not display child domains.
- Active Directory tree does not display containers that have a slash character in their names.
- If PD91Agent is set to manual, PerfectDisk fails to start on some machines.
- PD Exchange still tries to compact after unmounting store error.
- PD Exchange - Stop button is disabled during compaction of datastore.
- PD Exchange - Compaction fails if mapped network drive used. Need to verify that UNC path is used.
- PD Exchange - GUI does not display log entries.
- "Maximum Duration hours" setting ignored.
- "Do not start a defragmentation pass while on battery power" option does not work.
- Time lag between the start time of a scheduled task and the actual start.
- Offline schedule created without "Override drive Properties Settings" doesn't use drive property setting.
- Problems with AutoUpdate in Windows 2000 environment.
- Upgrade from PerfectDisk v8 to PerfectDisk 2008 migrates the date and time of last defragmentation.
- Upgrade from PerfectDisk v8 to PerfectDisk 2008 migrates empty offline defragmentation drive settings.
- VMware guests with linked clones or snapshots are not supposed to be defragmented.
- Invalid file error on attempt to add a virtual machine
.
- Defragmentation of a virtual machine fails with unspecified error when it has an additional disk setup.
- Machine goes into sleep mode during the defragmentation of a virtual machine.
- After Analyze, Summary and Most Fragmented Files Disagree.
- On Windows Vista, PerfectDisk periodically changes status causing Task Bar tray icon to "light up".
- Statistics Incorrect/Inconsistent for Number Of Fragmented Files & Size.
- Drive properties notebook opens minimized on certian screen resolutions.
- Initial column width does not accommodate text.
What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 Build 52
- New Features
- Improved boot time defragmentation performance.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed boot time defrag issue on very large drives.
- Occasionally boot time defragmentation passes cannot move a file. Changes were made to minimize this condition.
- A change was made to the boot time defragmentation code to work around changes in Vista SP1. Previously user may have received a driver conflict message and the boot-time defragmentation pass was skipped.
- When querying files with more than 1000 names, PD91Engine may some times crash. This has been fixed.
- During a boot time defragmentation pass on Vista the computer sometimes failed to reboot after the defragmentation pass completed. This has been fixed.
- Fixed defragmentation schedules that would run "in series" while scheduled "in parallel".
- Added to the Excluded Files tab all files excluded from defragmentation by default.
- Formatted the display of file and drive sizes as xxx.xx.
- Put a higher resolution PerfectDisk icon that is displayed when switching applications via Alt-Tab.
- The file $Secure:$SDS is no longer excluded from online defragmentation.
- Fixed inconsistencies and omissions in PerfectDisk's Support Info.
- Fixed negative value of Number of Clusters on the Drive Properties dialog.
- Fixed not working "?" (Help) icons.
- Fixed statistics errors saved to a file in File Organization Summary section.
- Fixed network port configuration via Config.ini file.
- Fixed find files selection on the drive map for small (~300Mb) drives.
What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 for Windows Home Server Build 48
- New Features
- PerfectDisk Add-in for Windows Home Server Management Console.
- Ability to disable the splash screen via Config.ini file.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed misleading statistics results that a drive is optimized for peak performance when free space fragmentation is listed as Poor.
- Added support for A: and B: non-floppy drives.
- Disabled VSS defragmentation options on Windows 2000 environment.
- Added Ctrl/C and Ctrl/Break signals to stop the defrag pass initiated from command line interface.
- Made AllowTrayIcon setting persistent when initially set from the ini file.
- Fixed a drop-down menu for an Exchange schedule on AutoPilot tab.
- Made PerfectDisk 2008 and PerfectDisk v8 Command Center co-exist on one machine.
- Change Disk I/O threshold to provide higher likelihood that StealthPatrol will run.
- Made a first drive in the drive list selected by default on Defragmentation tab.
What's new in PerfectDisk 2008 Build 44
- New Features
- Improved defragmentation speed.
- Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800x600 or 1024x768.
- Added print statistics functionality.
- Updated help files.
- Added ability to set license key via Active Directory Group Policy.
- Added the logging of a reason why the StealthPatrol schedule was suspended.
- Added "Every X weeks" field to the Exchange weekly schedule.
- Added Help Button in PerfectDisk Settings window.
- F1 opens Help.
- Added a warning when manually starting Exchange Defragmentation that this will dismount the datastore/stop the services.
- Added data validation check on Exchange schedule wizard.
- Bug Fixes
- Fixed boot time defragmentation "Insufficient Space" error on Vista.
- Fixed installation on a remote computer problem.
- Fixed setting of the Exchange server name to allow the usage of PerfectDisk 2008 for Exchange on cluster servers.
- Fixed the problem of initiation of boot time defrag on a remote computer that would lead to reboot of the local computer.
- Fixed persistence of boot time defrag settings for FAT16 drives.
- Fixed problem when system tray icon shows idle state even though PD is currently defragmenting a drive.
- Fixed US-only non-localizable date format on Performance tab.
- Fixed file size displayed incorrectly for large files after defragmenting selected files.
- Fixed issue when sometimes fragmented files do not show up in the most fragmented files list.
- Fixed limit for "Every X weeks" field for weekly schedules.
- Fixed PerfectDisk crash when USB drive is removed during a defragmentation of another drive.
- Fixed incorrect saving of statistics to a file.
- Fixed screensaver defragmentation that used to stop when monitor turns off.
- Fixed the display of Daily schedules set to run on Weekdays or Weekends on AutoPilot tab.
- Made Free Space tab hidable in the server version of PerfectDisk 2008.
- Fixed setting of "Stop if any shadow copies exist" option.
- Fixed value of settings for "Every X Days" field when Daily schedules field edited.
- Fixed settings of "Defragment the selected system files on EVERY reboot"; made the behavior consistent with PerfectDisk v8.
- Fixed problem when some file extensions could not be added to the extension list on Free Space tab.
- Made default extension lists consistent on Free Space tab.
- Fixed the problem of the system tray icon not updated after a USB drive was removed.
- Made extension list fields read-only on Free Space tab.