What's new in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 895
Feb 18, 2020
- Improved detection of SSD drives.
- Improved display on high resolution/DPI monitors.
- Improved detection of S.M.A.R.T. enabled drives.
- Duplicate File Finder excludes InstantRecovery/InstantRescue, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Apple Drive folders.
- Fixed graph display of drive temperature in S.M.A.R.T. Advanced Mode (graph would show impossibly high temperatures)
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 894 (Apr 30, 2019)
- Automatically fix/replace missing registry keys caused by major Windows Updates not migrating all PerfectDisk related registry keys.
- SSL Connection issues connecting to vCenter Server 6.7 fixed (PerfectDisk vSphere).
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 893 (Aug 1, 2018)
- Issue with restoring excluded drives fixed.
- Windows 10 files that load during boot time defrag automaticaly decompressed to allow boot time defrag to work.
- ReFS drives larger than 16TB not being seen/processed correctly issue fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 892 (Apr 10, 2018)
- Issue with PerfectDisk communicating with vCenter Server 6.5 fixed.
- Improved detection of Windows 10 compressed files for Boot time defrag.
- Performance improvements for ReFS defrag operations.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 891 (Sep 7, 2017)
- Issue with PerfectDisk communicating with vCenter Server 6.5 fixed.
- Boot time defrag failing on Windows 10 due to compressed system files issue fixed.
- For VMware, fix inability to connect to Host using domain login specified in the form “domainuser”
- Fixed out of order/missing log entries in the PerfectDisk Log File.
- Fixed issue reporting the analyze duration when an optimize operation is aborted because the fragmentation threshold is not met.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 890 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Detecting high FAL files issue fixed.
- Boot time defrag failing on Windows 10 due to compressed system files issue fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 885 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Boot time defrag failing on Windows 10 due to compressed system files issue fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 880 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Unable to save settings due to drive serial number issue fixed.
- Build 880 is the RTM release of the PerfectDisk 14 Business Editions - including Server, vSphere Guest, Hyper-V Guest, Business Professional and Enterprise Console.
- New Feature - Global Settings/Global Alert Settings/Log Alerts logs PerfectDisk generated fragmentation related alerts to the Windows Application Event log where they can be detected by monitoring programs. This new feature is available in all editions of PerfectDisk 14.
- New Feature - Thin Provisioned drive auto-detection added to PerfectDisk 14 Server, PerfectDisk 14 vSphere Guest and PerfectDisk 14 Hyper-V Guest.
- New Feature - Client Auto-Synch to PerfectDisk Console added to PerfectDisk 14 Server, PerfectDisk 14 vSphere Guest, PerfectDisk 14 Hyper-V Guest and PerfectDisk 14 Professional Business.
- New Feature - Enhanced integration with Citrix Servers added to PerfectDisk 14 Business Editions.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 14.0 Build 865 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Support for Windows 10
- S.M.A.R.T. enhancements:
- Basic and Advanced Modes
- Improved detection of S.M.A.R.T. drive failure prediction
- Improved detection/handling of S.M.A.R.T. enabled SSD drives
- S.M.A.R.T. alerts written to PD/Windows Application Event Log
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 13.0 Build 843 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Added the ability to detect files that are approaching the NTFS File Attribute List max size of 256KB and exclude them from defragmentation operations. Files that exceed this limit can not create additional file fragments - resulting in application or other errors. Note that this limit has nothing to do with the actual size of a file. This limit has to do with how badly fragmented the file is. If a file is badly fragmented and is approaching this limit, defragmenting the file could push it over the limit.
- Log Viewer sorting issue fixed.
- Changes made for PerfectDisk for vSphere to work with vSphere 6.0.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 13.0 Build 842 (Jul 7, 2016)
- SMART drive temperature issue fixed.
- Hyper-V Guest - Invalid Class error when attempting to defragment a guest when VA is enabled on Server 2012 R2 issue fixed.
- Added support for virtual hard disk shrink operation for Hyper V Server 2012/2012 R2.
- During XP shutdown, PDAGent.exe creates an application error issue fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 13.0 Build 821 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Improvements made in StealthPatrol "idle" processing.
- Selected File defrag on mount point issue fixed.
- PerfectDisk Exchange fails to create backup file issue fixed.
- Scheduled task runs twice in a row issue fixed.
- Support for defragmenting ReFS drives added.
- Support for defragmenting CSVFS drives added (2012/2012 R2).
- Boot time defrag options missing in Drive Perferences for mount points and unmounted drives issue fixed.
- Pagefile stats not included in Analyze and Defrag stats fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 13.0 Build 783 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Expired PerfectDisk 12.5 evaluation license prevents 'Apply License' on installation of PerfectDisk 13 issue fixed.
- Boot time defrag logging issue fixed.
- Product registration failure on Windows 8.1 with high UAC issue fixed.
- Check for Update doesn't find available update issue fixed.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 13 Build 776 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Fixed an issue on Windows 8.1 systems where Windows wouldn't boot after requesting a boot time defrag:
- Windows 8.1 systems only
- PD12.5 installed
- Hotfix applied to allow PD12.5 to run on Windows 8.1
- Upgraded using PD13 Build 770 provided to pre-release customers
- Boot time defrag requested in PD13
- Fixed issue where OptiWrite settings were not being correctly migrated on upgrade from PD12.x to PD13.
- This update only addresses issues seen upgrading from PD12.x to PD13.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 12.5 Build 306 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Fragmentation Prevention with OptiWrite:
- PerfectDisk's new OptiWrite technology prevents most fragmentation in your drive before it occurs, which prevents your system from slowing down. OptiWrite detects when Windows is going to fragment files and intelligently redirects I/O to stop the fragmentation from occuring. System performance is maintained and the need to utilize CPU and Disk I/O resources to defragment files is greatly reduced. Because less defragmentation is needed, there is a direct benefit in the form of energy saved in both CPU usage and in the reading and writing to a disk. It saves users both in energy costs and in the time required to defragment a file system.
- Intelligent SSD Optimization:
- SSD Optimize is an optimization method for SSDs that focuses on free space consolidation without defragmentation of files. Solid State Drives are not affected by file fragmentation like traditional electromechanical disk drives. As such, it will leave files in a fragmented state while consolidating free space into large pieces. SSD Optimize is included as a standard feature in all editions of PerfectDisk 12.
- StealthPatrol Automatic Defragmentation:
- PerfectDisk’s exclusive StealthPatrol tab is used to set automatic fragmentation prevention and optimize your system when it isn't busy. Auto-optimization affords you the flexibility to optimize your system when it is idle or when the Windows screensaver is active. Auto-optimization provides the flexibility to not run during certain periods of the day or when a user-defined application is running. No other defrag or optimization utility proves this level of flexibility.
- Advanced Boot Time Defrag:
- PerfectDisk's advanced boot time defrag capability is able to defragment files that otherwise would remain fragmented such as the Windows pagefile.sys or the file system's MFT (Master File Table). PerfectDisk employs a sophisticated locking mechanism to ensure the defrag is done safely. PerfectDisk 12 includes significant enhancements to the boot time defrag locking mechanism which greatly improves driver compatibility when locking drives, and leads to a much smoother boot time defrag operation. Internal and external testing has verified that these conflicts have been virtually eliminated.
- New Dynamic Zone Engine:
- PerfectDisk 12 improves its operations for faster and more efficient defragmentation and optimization. During processing, PerfectDisk deals with parts of a drive at once - a zone. PerfectDisk 12's new dynamic zone engine significantly reduces the overhead of moving zones in and out of memory, drastically improves RAM utilization and enhances engine speed on both small and large drives, but particularly on large drives.
- Improved User Experience:
- New Engine Statistics: Streamlines the visual presentation of drive statistics and adds various new metrics.
- New Most Fragmented Files List: Combined with the Drive Bitmap Block Viewer, greatly enhances the ability to quickly identify and optimize fragmented files.
- New Interactive Scheduling Calendar: Provides a monthly view of all scheduled tasks with on-the-fly task editing.
- New Pre / Post Optimization Tasks: Allow PerfectDisk 12 to execute shell commands and scripts both prior to and post optimization.
- New Automation Tab: Centralizes key automatic optimization features and settings.
- New Global and per Drive Settings: Introduces the ability to set global settings and per drive overrides for various features and settings.
- New Language Settings: PerfectDisk 12 can now be localized using the preferred language setting. (coming soon)
- Automatic Drive Type Detection (USB / Flash / SSD / Firewire): PerfectDisk 12 has a new feature that detects if any USB, flash, SSD, or firewire devices are attached to the machine and will display them by their unique icons in the Defragmentation tab.
- Enhanced Selected Files Defrag: The Selected Files defrag can now include as many as 100 files for defragmentation.
- Improved command line support: Users can analyze and obtain statistics directly from the PerfectDisk command line, especially helpful for automated, batch reporting systems or for tie-ins to enterprise management consoles.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 183 (Dec 29, 2010)
- The patch file to 11.00.182 was corrupted, so a new patch file was create to 11.00.183. New installation of 11.00.182 was not effected. The bug only effected patching from an earlier build to 11.00.182.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 182 (Dec 6, 2010)
- We corrected an issue which was preventing the PerfectDisk user interface from correctly saving user settings to the registry.
- We corrected a scheduling bug on virtual computers. When the start time was missed the user interface displayed a date of 1899.
- We corrected an issue with the welcome screen always displaying when PerfectDisk was launched even though is should not have.
- We ensured compatibility with Exchange 2007, SP3 and have allowed PerfectDisk to defragment data stores in this configuration.
- We corrected a bug which caused PerfectDisk to crash if the MFT exceeded 80GB.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 178 (Dec 6, 2010)
- We corrected a bug when creating Auto Pilot schedules for Exchange Data stores on Exchange 2010. If individual stores were selected instead of all stores you would get an error.
- A new feature was added to allow controlling the behavior (display) of the registration dialog. This can now be blocked using group policy, the config.ini file or the Enterprise Console
- A new feature was added to control the VSS settings from Group Policy or the config.ini file.
- A new feature was added to control the custom SmartPlacement settings from Group Policy.
- We modified the behavior of the Screen Saver Auto-Pilot schedule to allow the monitor to power off. Prior to this version Screen Saver schedules would not run if the monitor powered off as not screen saver was present. This behavior was modified to recognize the corporate need to have monitor power down to save energy.
- The defragmentation logic was modified to minimize skipping files during a defragmentation pass. Prior to this version a file could be skipping after failing to move when requested. This logic was changed to only skip the file under more restrictive terms.
- We corrected a flaw in the SmartDefrag logic where the proper defragmentation algorithm was not always being used.
- We added support for Japanese translations.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 174 (Dec 6, 2010)
- Correct issues connecting to and displaying data stores for Exchange 2010
- Change behavior when stopping a defrag pass. PerfectDisk used to display the statistics at the time you stopped even though they were inaccurate. PerfectDisk no longer does this.
- The display files in block feature has been disabled during a defrag and analyze pass since there was no data to display
- Corrected some display issues on the virtual machine tab
- Added support for translation into Japanese
- Corrected some statistical calculations when files are being added and deleted from the drive during the defragmentation pass.
- The list of drive types that can be impersonated was limited to prevent confusion. The purpose of impersonating drive types was due to the inability to accurately determine whether or not a drive is a solid state drive.
- Corrected a display issue on the Hyper-V host product. GUID was being displayed in lieu of the guest computer name.
- Clarified the code to ensure the user realized the schedules maximum duration only applies to the online portion of the schedule. There is not maximum duration for a boot-time defragmentation pass.
- Ensure that PerfectDisk does not attempt to perform an offline defragmentation pass on a FAT/FAT32 from a schedule. This functionality is not supported.
- Corrected some typo's in displayed text
- Changed the default behavior regarding file modification date on FAT/FAT32 drives. When no date exists we now display nothing. We used to display 1980.
- Improved the layout to better fit all the on screen data
- Corrected a bug when defragmenting drives greater than 2,147,483,648 clusters (8 TB with 4k cluster size)
- Improved boot-time defragmentation logging.
- Corrected a display issue with the schedule tab buttons when using Group Policy.
- Certain error messages were improved to aid the user in understanding what went wrong.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 170 (Apr 22, 2010)
- Release of PerfectDisk Virtual editions.
- Changed the behavior of how solid state drives are defragmented.
- Usability enhancements added.
- Built in defrag schedule has been disabled to prevent thrashing the drive with two different defrag programs running at once.
- Fixed a bug which blocked boot-time logging on 64 bit Windows.
- Added ability to enter Proxy information when using AutoUpdate feature.
- Fixed some column sizing issues and typos.
- Added a feature to allow shutting down after a manually initiated defragmentation pass. Previously this feature existed for schedules only.
- Progress removed from the tray icon as the percent complete was wildly inaccurate.
- Fixed display issues where San Serif font was specifically called for. It the computer did not have this font PerfectDisk could display schedule information.
- Corrected some refresh issues in the user interface where settings were being changed but the display was not updated until the user interface was closed and reopened.
- Fixed an issue where the duplicate file finder could delete files from the Programs File folder on 64 bit computers. By default this directory should have been excluded.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 11 Build 165 (Mar 9, 2010)
- Defrag Software for PCs:
- Work and play even faster. PerfectDisk 11 Home Premium has been enhanced with new features to keep your desktop, laptop or netbook running like new.
- Faster Analyze:
- Analyze a drive up to several hundred percent faster depending on your drive, number of files and file sizes.
- Enhanced large drive support:
- New algorithms ensure faster defrags for even the largest drives; and as always -- no extra cost, no matter how large the drive.
- Enhanced Solid State Drive (SSD) support:
- Automatic detection of SSDs ensures these drives can be optimized for the best possible performance boost.
- Enhanced StealthPatrol automatic background defrag:
- Optimizes drives faster and uses fewer resources than other defragmenters.
- Enhanced VSS (Visual Source Safe) support:
- Support VSS threshold configuration lets you set a unique threshold for VSS data.
- Enhanced user interface:
- Improved graphics and layout make PerfectDisk easier to use than ever before.
- Enhanced Selected Files Defrag:
- You can now select up to 100 files to defrag to save time and resources if you don't wish to defrag the entire drive; great for heavily used files.
New in PerfectDisk Home Premium 10 Build 93 (Jan 27, 2009)
- Improved performance:
- Saving you time and resources, PerfectDisk's engine now runs up to 30% faster.
- Exclusive to PerfectDisk – Smart automatic StealthPatrol:
- Working during computer idle times, StealthPatrol now intelligently self-adjusts to conserve your computer's valuable resources.
- Faster Free Space Consolidation:
- PerfectDisk's industry-leading free space consolidation features now work faster than ever before.
- Enhanced AutoPilot Scheduling:
- A wide range of scheduling options gives you complete control and flexibility over your defrag schedule.
- Enhanced user interface:
- Easier to use than ever before, PerfectDisk's user-friendly interface includes tabbed navigation, setup wizards and graphics of your hard drive's fragmented files.