Disk Defragmenter Changelog
This document contains late-breaking release notes for Disk Defragmenter. For best results, read it in a small window while something defragments in the background.
- Added this document.
- When a new version of Disk Defragmenter has been installed, you will now be asked whether you would like to restart your computer. No computers are restarted.
- Added a privacy policy. Summary: the drives are imaginary and nothing about you is collected.
- Added proper icons and screenshots for people who install Disk Defragmenter to a home screen.
- The drive map now redraws correctly when the window moves to another monitor or the page is zoomed.
- Double-clicking the title bar now maximizes the window, as it should.
- Added support for telephones with a notch in the screen, a sentence that would not have parsed in 1998.
- Rewrote the drive map renderer so large drives scroll smoothly. Fixed certain iPads refusing to draw drives over 1 GB.
- Disk Defragmenter now works entirely offline. You may defragment an imaginary drive on an aeroplane.
- Sound preferences are now remembered between visits.
- KNOWN ISSUE: pressing the Close button may occasionally cause a fatal exception (blue screen). This behavior is authentic and will not be fixed. Press any key to continue.
- Rewrote the defragmentation engine to match the real Windows 98 utility: the read head scatters across the drive, reads and writes sweep in contiguous blocks, and the progress bar reveals one segment at a time.
- Stopping a defragmentation now asks for confirmation first.
- Re-encoded the hard disk sound to period-appropriate fidelity, which saved 850 KB.
- Rebuilt the whole program. It now loads considerably faster.
- Added mouse click sounds.
- The hard disk sound can now be switched off, for people defragmenting at work.
- Added authentic hard disk sound effects. Faster drives click faster.
- Defragmentation now moves several clusters per pass.
- Added the estimated time remaining, which is approximately as truthful as the original.
- First release. Four imaginary drives (C:, D:, E:, F:), one legend, no files harmed.
Disk Defragmenter is simulated by Defrag98, a nostalgia project by Dennis Morello. It never reads, moves or modifies any real file on your device.