JkDefrag Portable 3.34 Dev Test 7

1. Instead of using 2 scripts with only the Run() lines different use @AutoItX64 to detect what executable to run.
2. I would say any removable drive with the file system fat32 or fat should be ignored. What do you think?
3. Before listing the drive use DriveGetStatus to check if it is "ready." (Eg. Cd in drive.)

This is a great start. I think you should implement some more of the options that JkDefrag has. The GUI I current use can be found here (http://www.emro.nl/freeware/) It has a lot of options. Again, I know this is your first GUI and I think you did a great job. As you do more with this you can implement more features.

The GUI looks really nice, and it's really simple, too!

Awesome Work! I'll pick out the small stuff later.

Nice start Travis I agree with the suggestion to leave off drives that are empty from the list (floppies). You could add an 'advanced' tab for some of the other options... or an options window, but I like keeping the main screen simple. I'd suggest leaving off the 'GUI' in the title. Also, you should hide the GUI while it is running so extra button pushes aren't an issue.

BTW - Any chance you could use AutoHotkey instead of AutoIt? It's open source (AutoIt isn't anymore) and has fewer false positive issues with antivirus products.

I have no problems with this one. Everything works fine. I think the GUI is a great complement to the app. I'm going to take down my JkDefrag and link to yours.

I just try and I had no objection.
I want to know as I do to translate it into Spanish.
Thanks,

I've just tried using on Vista Ultimate SP1 and I'm running into an error message.

I select the drive and regardless of what option I select (Analyze, Defragment, or Defragment And Optimize I get the following AutoIt Error

Line -1:

Error: Unable to execute the external program.

The requested Operation requires elevation.

Since I'm just using a standard user account in Vista, I decided to try "run as administrator" option directly from the flash drive and it worked. So, it looks like it needs administrator access (at least in Vista)

Here's a directive in AutoIt to cover UAC in Vista -

---------

By default AutoIt scripts run with standard user permissions but AutoIt has been coded to allow the script writer the option to "tag" a script in order to tell AutoIt if it needs to run with full admin rights or not.

To force a script to attempt to run itself with administrative rights add the #requireadmin directive at the top of your script as follows:

; This script requires full Administrative rights
#requireadmin

MsgBox(0, "Info", "This script has admin rights! ")

When the script runs AutoIt will check if it already has full admin rights and if not it will cause the operating system to prompt the user for permission as shown in "UAC Prompts". If permission is not given by the user the script will terminate.

Why would you want to exclude flash drives? I know that it is not necessarily recommended, but I don't think that you should exclude them from the list, as I know many people will want to defragment their flash drives. I personally think that you need to change that back. You can't force users to do the "correct" thing, and if they want to do the "incorrect" thing, then they just won't use your product.

when i wrote earlier that i defraged a flash drive it was an old one that i never use
anymore as its to small for all my apps and no use for anything else but i agree
you shouldn't defrag flash dives

Here's the small PAF stuff as always.

• There's a thumbs.db in App\AppInfo, I think that's yours.
• In the appinfo.ini, the PackageVersion is 3.34.0.0
• I would put the OSNotSupported line right in the source, rather than a string at the top because if someone else uses your launcher, chances are they won't need that string.
• Missing AppSource.txt. Also missing App\Readme.txt.
• In the help.html file is says ConvertAll Portable-Specific, change the and under it I would list the standard four support topics for all apps instead of a homepage.

I think that's it, that was quick. Great work, keep it up!

I just tried it, and it gave that whole "this application wants access to your computer" screen and I was able to defrag both my hard drives.

Keep up the good work

I just had a small thought. What about including John Bentley's StuffPad he has included with Xenon instead of using Notepad?

Edit: I just looked at it, and it's looks like it may need some small tweaking for settings placement and stuff as it was meant for Xenon. But it's in AutoIt, so it should be easy.

Not to run any more off topic, but if you've started work improving StuffPad, and the original author doesn't have any more plans for it, why not take over the project (or at least complete your revisions) and release it as a separate app? If it has that much merit, then it deserves it's own release. You could even include support for other portable apps or portable file extensions if you want to go that route.

If this goes official, I have a high-res logo that I made.

The original JKDefrag logo used one of the Vista hard drive icons, I'm not sure it can be used with the GPL, so if that's an issue, I can remake my logo to use a different drive icon as well.

My logo can be found here.