Raxco PerfectDisk 8.0 SP1 scheduled for 20 Oct 2006 or earlier

Chubb · Oct 12, 2006

Raxco PerfectDisk 8.0 SP1 scheduled for 20 Oct 2006 or earlier

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October 11, 2006

Enhancements to Version 8 Coming

We are pleased to announce that we are bringing enhancements to Version 8, about a month after the product's launch. They will be available as part of Service Pack (SP) 1. The official release date for SP 1 is October 20th, but it will likely be available earlier. It will be available to anyone running Version 8 via the AutoUpdate capability. You can, of course, always check for updates from the Help tab in PerfectDisk.

Here is just some of what you'll find in SP 1:

- A new Performance tab that includes bar charts showing file fragmentation and free space fragmenation for a user's drives, before and after PerfectDisk's defrag passes, over a period of time. This will let you more easily see the direct benefits of regularly defragmenting.

- New drive performance information that shows the health of a user's drives.This graphical information, displayed in bar chart form, lets users easily see how their drives are performing. The drive health information is based on fragmentation levels of data files, free space, system files and directories.

- Enhanced Command Center reports. Color-coding has been added for warnings and alerts, making it easier to see problems and potential problems.

- New Auto-refresh of tasks status in the Command Center.

- A new Abort Shutdown button to allow an easier way to abort a computer shutdown.

- New Print functionality for the statistics available within PerfectDisk.

There are also other minor enhancements made, as well as bug fixes. Look for SP 1 over the next few days, and receive even more benefits from defragmentation with PerfectDisk 8.
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Chubb · Oct 13, 2006

Just received the mail from Raxco that PerfectDisk 8.0 SP1 is now available through AutoUpdate.

Chubb · Oct 13, 2006

http://www.raxco.com/pd80_updates/whatsnew.htm

What's new in PerfectDisk build 8.00.35

* PerfectDisk Command Center
1. Some enhancements were made to the Command Center:
Command Center will refresh every 30 seconds to get the latest data
Reports are now color coded to indicate alerts/warnings
Print functionality was added to Reports
Ability to connect to a remote computer was added to the Report results

2. Several changes were made to the Managed Computers functionality. Browsing computers was fixed and made faster. Bugs were corrected when manually adding computers. Enhancements were incorporated to make it easier to know when computers did not have assigned logins.

3. Screen Saver and One-time schedules were added to the Schedule Report.

4. Remote Desktop Connection does not work if the Command Center is on a X64 or IA64 operating system. This has been corrected but will require an un-install and re-install of the Command Center.

5. You could not edit a screen saver schedule from the Command Center. This has been corrected.

6. Email notification did not always work as expected. We have fixed this and tried to give more meaningful error messages if the email configuration is not valid.

* PerfectDisk Client
1. Some enhancements were made to PerfectDisk:
Ability to abort a schedule shutdown was added to the Tools menu
Additional statistics were added including a Drive Performance Rating and historical file and free space fragmentation trends
Print functionality was added to the logs and statistics.

2. When installing v8.0 over an existing v7.0 installation, some PerfectDisk v7.0 settings were not correctly migrated to v8.0. This has been corrected.

3. When using Config.ini to preconfigure all v8.0 schedules, settings, etc, some values were not correctly set. This has been corrected.

4. Schedule maximum duration was incorrectly set if the schedule included both online and offline passes. This has been corrected.

5. Even though a schedules pass should occur in series, it some times started defragging all drives in parallel. This was due to a timing condition and has been fixed.

6. There were some issues with single file defrag and excluding files on mount points. This has been corrected.

7. There were several Exchange defrag issues with configuration settings and schedules. They have all been fixed.
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