PerfectDisk 2008 version 9.00.038

is there a way to shut down the service

i don't like that perfectdisk loads every time more services

i don't care about schedule , and i use pd 1 time in a week


is there a way to disable and let perfectdisk work

 

Set PD's services to manual and they should only start when needed.

Control Panel - Adminstrative Tools - Services

Or Run - type " services.msc " no quotes - enter

 

thanks

does Perfectdisk 2008 turn on the USN Journal

you can check with a chkdsk

 

Nothing but features and benefits and his personal preferences. No proof of speed improvement.

 

There is "proof" of speed improvement here, in the "Great Defrag Shootout". But it isn't really much with any of them.

http://donnedwards.openaccess.co.za/2007/06/great-defrag-shootout-all.html

 

I have done some in depth testing and seen improvement, I need to write the results up - I tested 4 programs (plus non at all), but it will be a while as i have a broken arm which is hindering me...

What I can say is that defraging files helps, free space consolidation helps more, specific file placement helps even more, but you get progressively longer defrag times.

 

That is assuming the tests are objective and scientific. I have been to the site, but could not find the benchmark results.

 

I'm with Bunkhouse Buck. Defraggers make no subjective improvement to my computers. I use them for other reasons.

 

And if we could find an honest and objective non-marketing hype test, we would see that they also make no objective improvement at all. The computer industry is replete with exaggerated claims and outright scams, but the defrag industry is right near the top for bs.

 

I have an objective test. Incremental image backups are half the size if I use Perfect Disk instead of Diskeeper prior to the baseline image. Measured over a several week period. Repeatable.

 

The question to ask, is fragmentation causing you any problem/hindrance to your day to day activities which defragmentation will fix ?

I have yet to defragment my works laptop (new since Sept 07), because I have performance bottles necks that defragmenting would not make any difference to my day to day activities (in my case a very slow LAN).

My objective testing shows a repeatable results that defragmentation helps, BUT the overall performance loss is very small.

IMHO your correct in terms of exaggerated claims, but I would go as far as calling them scams.

I think in terms of defragmentation is that nothing is ever explained to mitigate performance issues due to fragmentation:

Disc access is random, especially in a multitasking OS like windows. Files are not read in sequential order (in general usage), system files like the page file are most frequently accessed, even in between load of apps data - the heads fly about a lot, regardless.

The OS caches, the HDD caches, you get things queued and delayed to be read/written, This reduce performance loss due to fragmentation.

The significance of these fragmented files, my testing shows that only 1% (at most) of regularly accessed file suffer fragmentation (which only reduces performance by 10%), so total regular file access performance loss was 0.1% - this is for regular office email internet use.

 

I did not say they were all scams- I said there was a lot of bs. I know hard drives having been a pioneer in their development, and I simply use Windows XP defrag occasionally. Not sure if it helps or not. I have subjectively tested most defraggers, and if there is any improvement in access times, etc. -it is not very obvious. My view and I have argued this many times in this forum, is that any improvement is marginal- very marginal at best and much less than the claims made by their promoters.