OT: Raxco Software's PerfectDisk 8.0 Professional for Windows Vista

Since performance of Quicken 2008 appears to be a topic of interest, I thought I would share some of my experiences optimizing Windows Vista.

I have been using Diskeeper for years, and was anticipating using Diskeeper

2007 Pro Premier on my new ThinkPad T61 with Windows Vista Ultimate x86 32-bit.

I was not happy with Diskeeper's defragmentation in Vista Ultimate.

I left my ThinkPad running for 2 days hoping the background defrag would do its job, it didn't.

Searching fo an alternative, I found Raxco's PerfectDisk 8.0 Professional:

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I would highly recommend this as an alternative to Diskeeper for anal Windows Vista users :-)

Bob

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Bob, I've been using Diskeeper for years, and I've been curious about PerfectDisk, as I'm not entirely happy with Diskeeper either. Even though this is OT, could you elaborate a bit on why you prefer PerfectDisk?

Thx and Regards,

Margaret

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Margaret:

When I get a new machine, I like to create a tight clean image, using True Image, thanks to you ;-) Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier would defragment most files, but would leave huge holes between filled areas. DK would then run automatically in the background, and move files to the end of the hard drive. I like the front to be used since I can then use Disk Director to re-size partitions without having to move more files around.

There was also one system file that DK could not defragment at all. I can't remember the name of the file, but I Google'd it, and found a forum post about PerfectDisk being able to defragment that file.

So, I downloaded the trial version of PerfectDisk, and voila, that one file that was in DOZENS of fragments was defragmented.

You can also set up PerfectDisk to defragment system files at EVERY reboot, only takes a few seconds, but I DO like knowing my system files are in one piece w/o having to do a Boot-time defrag.

DK Pro Premier is $60 for an upgrade, but here's the kicker:

Raxco even offers a $25/license trade-in deal for users of Diskeeper:

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Bob

Thx and Regards,

Margaret

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"Bob Wang" wrote in news:Z-2dnaajFPLosXbbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

I'm confused. Subject says Perfect disk 8. Body talks mostly about perfectdisk 7.

Raxcco's website has several products, and it is not really clear to me what the differences are: Perfectdisk 8 Perfectdisk suite (seemes dumbed down, but with addition of unrelated products)

3-pack of Pro for $70

Does it work equaly well on Vista Home Basic as on XP Pro or Home?

Thanks for any info. My slow $400 laptop with Vista Home Basic was immensely speeded up with ATF-cleaner, which very, very efficiently removes temporary files.

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Han:

I am using PerfectDisk Pro 8.0, I was comparing it to Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier. Sorry for any confusion. I have only used it on Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit, can't say anything about other versions.

Bob P.S. The 3-pack is a great deal IMHO.

I'm confused. Subject says Perfect disk 8. Body talks mostly about perfectdisk 7.

Raxcco's website has several products, and it is not really clear to me what the differences are: Perfectdisk 8 Perfectdisk suite (seemes dumbed down, but with addition of unrelated products)

3-pack of Pro for $70

Does it work equaly well on Vista Home Basic as on XP Pro or Home?

Thanks for any info. My slow $400 laptop with Vista Home Basic was immensely speeded up with ATF-cleaner, which very, very efficiently removes temporary files.

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Bob Wang

"Bob Wang" wrote in news:KNednW3qgsXJp3bbnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@comcast.com:

Thanks Bob!

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Han

I've been using PerfectDisk for a few years. I never looked back to the Diskeeper days. PerfectDisk is a better disk defragmenter. It does a better job in one pass than Diskeeper did in multiple passes.

The Raxco customer support people are good to work with as well.

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Tried the evaluation download on my cheap laptop, but there is some problem. This is what I told PerfectDisk:

Trying to run a boot time defrag after analyzing C: Machine is Acer ASpire 368-2633 (cheap laptop) running Vista Home Basic, Norton Protection Suite, SUPERAntispyware, and Comodo BOClean. After the analysis and instruction for boottime defrag, PerfectDisk suggests offline reboot, but there are "open handles". It suggest rebooting, to which I say yes. Then, machine does not shutdown, except by holding down power switch.

Upon reboot, windows ask for normal startup, bacause of the sutdown error.

Then vista seems to start (horizontal progress bar moves), and the defrag too, but an error (driver conflict?) occurs, machine will boot to login screen without doing the boottime defrag. If I login and then redo the drive C analysis, same thing happens. Need powerswitch powerdown, and it repeats all over

However, if I reboot again from the login screen, before logging in, defrag seems to occur (messge no active pagefile????)

So I need to reboot twice????

Of course, this Acer laptop runs a type of PowerQuest imaging program which uses a PQservice drive, normally not visible to Windows, but visible to PerfectDisk.

The hard drive has 3 partitions: PQService Drive C ("programs" Drive D ("data")

It is drive C that needs defragging, according to PerfectDisk, the others are fine.

Any info appreciated before I buy PerfectDisk 8.

The double reboot is annoying, but it seems to work now (performed the boottime defrag, now is working on "regular" defrag, while in Vista).

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