Perfect Disk Do I need it?

Scuse my brutality, but to much defragmenting HD is a bad practice.. I used to run Diskeeper on Win98SE, activated "Set and forget" function and that resulted my system freezing for no reason.
Further (to much) defragmenting is as bad as not defragmenting at all.. Specially if you run Win98SE which tends to, and works better if disk is fragmented ( it fragments the disk by default)
I think original Windows defragmenters are enough to keep your disk in good health. If you want to spend money, buy something usefull to keep your putter and registry in top condition. (If you experiment alot with different programs. Your Uninstaller! 2004 Pro is great. )

Quote Your Uninstaller:Your Uninstaller! can automatically detect broken registry keys from Add/Remove list and entirely clear them with your permission, also it can detect unused files left by uninstalls and prompt you to completely delete them.

Big registry and large number of unnecessary files can make your system real slow wich makes you think your disk is fragmented.

 

Scuse my honesty . Win98 is so far gone from my mind that i can't remember what it was like to defrag on W98, however defraging XP definately does give my system a speedboost, whether this is enough of a reason for anyone else to buy PerfectDisk (or DisKeeper) well that's not my decision.
BTW. I have never experienced any freezing when scheduling.

 

in response to NetTraveler-

It must be stated that there is a huge difference in the FAT32 file system of W98, ect... and the NTFS found in XP. Trust me whatever defrag strategies are appropriate for one, very likely don't apply to the others. Some would argue that NTFS needs defrag less (bostering your case). My point is that NTFS needs to be defragmented with a much more sophisticated approach, therefore (bolstering my case, I believe) PD becomes more necessity and less luxury.

To Ronjor-

If I interpret that quote, it means you should set it my way ?

Okay, here is the other thing...I ran NTREGOPT and PAGEDEFRAG and originally hesistated to relay my results because they may sound like I have gone off the deep end, but my result was that NTREGOPT saved less than 10% space and PAGEDEFRAG said the first 6 hives were already continous and the 7th had only one extra fragment. I did not like something about the programs, however so I restored it the way it was before, but to each his own.

- HandsOff

 

OK i am still confused because i understood the question that you put to perfect disk, and I understand the answer they gave you. The only thing I still feel i need clarification on is which radio button corrosponds to which setting.

the first one (your setting) is "recommended", and yet they may be addressing users other than XP users....

the second one (my setting) is letting PD handle "all layout.ini files". Well if it is handling them all, does that not mean that it is defragging them?

I don't mean to put the weight on you, Ron, I might check, only i am not a registered user. (I never register anything i don't have to, and when I do i usually provide fictions info. for those of you who say company x will never compromise your personal info, all I can say is why do I now receive computer generation snail mail for "bozo theclown", "redmond redneck", "Me", ect...then again, perhaps I should not have exaggerated so much on my "household income" or been so expansive about my ecclectic "interests"

- HandsOff

 

Ronjor,if I understand correctly the way you have indicated in your screen shot, Perfect Disk will take care of everything. I have followed the postings with interest.

 

Computer doing fine. I have two new toys. First Defense and Perfect Disk. I am impressed with both. I scheduled an update with FD last night and checked the log today to make sure it worked. It indicated 3 errors. It was files with Process Guard. In PD if there is any other settings I should know about I would appreciate the help. Which bitmap display do you use XP or Perfect Disk?

 

WilliamP
I am glad you decided to get PD. If your experience is like mine you will really benefit from using it. As for settings, I set mine to defrag system files at each boot (as does Ron) this usually does not need to be done, so it just adds maybe 5 seconds to boot time. However if it does need to be done, you get it done right away. As a little side bonus, over time you get a feel for just which activities lead to fragmentation of metadata. So I would suggest that one. Its easiest to set by opening PD right clicking a drive, click properties tab and check always..." Good Luck!

Ron
there are more files included in the optimization in choice 2, however, they are not as necessary to actually boot the computer as the ones in choice 1. therefore the choice is not quite simple to me. what if i want my firewall, antitrojan, antivirus, and certain other progs to be optimized to start as quickly as possible? I choose choice 2 which might result might be a slower boot, and yet a faster state of usability. in this scenario i guess more autostart programs will be optimized? that's one reason i hate it when fluff programs worm their way into autostarting.

-HandsOff

P.S. - i did email support, yet more and more i think experience will be the best teacher.

 

Hmmmm, interesting. I have run/updated FD-ISR literally many dozens of times the past several months WITHOUT A SINGLE ERROR but then again, I do not own Process Guard. I was thinking about purchasing PG, now I'm gonna have to reconsider; I'll go without ANY program to keep FD, I like it that much.


Acadia

 

I guess because of the security of PG ,FD couldn't open the files. I wouldn't get rid of either program. May be a way to deal with it.

 

I'm in the process of deciding which Defragger to get. It's between DiskKeeper, PerfectDisk, and O&O Defragmenter Pro.

You never hear much about O&O Defrag Pro, although in a review by the UK PC Pro magazine, it came out top.

Has anyone else used it ?

 

William, have you restored or booted into one of the Snapshots that had errors? Are you able to make FD work EVEN WITH the errors? I have never had any errors so I have no idea how a FD snapshot would work that had errors in it.

Acadia

 

Peter2150,

Did you compare O&O 6.5 with PerfectDisk 7 ?

Also, why does the Download version of PD cost more than the CD version ? Seems a bit odd!

 

Should you disable AV Real-Time protection when defragmenting ?

 

The O&O 6.5 didn't worked well on my system with the SP2, but before I've the SP2 it works very well.
I prefer the O&O, instead of Diskeeper, but the new version of PerfectDisk is very nice...

 

Ditto

 

Perfectdisk just takes 55 seconds to defrag my hard disk drive! Amazing!