[Ian]

Please leave your comments about Diskeeper 2007 in this thread

[FlakMagnet]

I use Diskeeper on a daily basis (2007 Pro Premier edition), and I love it to bits!

With the invisitasking option, I no longer have to think about defragging my disk - it just happens! At first I was very sceptical, and checked often to see what state my disc was in. But there are very rarely fragmented files, and when there are (after doing lots of file operations for example), they are tidied up in the background without me noticing. Fantastic!

I can also honestly say that defragging with invisitasking has no noticeable impact on system performance - the program intelligently only uses the CPU and Disc when no other application is using them.

I am a software developer and work in an office with many other developers. A few complain bitterly about the performance of their PCs, but after defragging their discs, complain less. I don't think many people defrag, and that really is a shame - you get performance for free when you keep your disc tidy.

One note on the review here. The reviewer shows screenshots of the level of fragmentation on his disc, mentioning the red areas as being fragmented files. What the reviewer has actually shown is the file 'performance' view, and not the file 'structure' view. It is the structure view that shows the fragmentation level

[murdoch]

Welcome to PCReview FlakMagnet, nice name

[floppybootstomp]

Hiya FlakMagnet, thanks for pointing out my boo-boo

I don't suppose your real name is Craig Jensen by any chance?

All I know is that after defrag all those nasty red ones, mostly, have disappeared but I thank you for pointing out the error of my ways

It will be interesting whether your rather over-complimentary post above leads to a long term presence here or is merely a flying visit. And I'm curious as to the origin of your chosen Forum name - are you expecting to attract flak?

Welcome to the forum

[FlakMagnet]

Hi Guys


First of all, I get the name FlakMagnet from playing online games (UT2004 etc). I got the name after being killed repeatedly by someone with the Flak Cannon. He suggested I was sooo bad, that I must have been attracting his shots like a magnet It's kind of stuck with me, and it use the name in all forums I join (I have a bad memory, and this helps keep my brain as uncluttered as possible ).

@floppybootstomp : Sorry to dissappoint, but my name is not Craig. My real name is Mark Douglas, but I know there are other games who use the same gamer tag as I do, so maybe Craig also plays games as FlakMagnet?

I posted here because I just happened accross the review (found a link from somewhere, but can't remember where - I did warn you earlier about my memory). I really love Diskeeper, and I was interested to see what reviewers thought of it too I work in the software industry, and I really appreciate software developers who put a lot of effort into making their products useful, easy to use and 'good looking'. It's just far too easy to make software that doesn't stand out from the crowd.

I had not seen or heard of PC Review before I stumbled accross this review, but I have since added it to my favourites, and plan to revisit regularly. I found floppybootstomps review very fair, clear and unbiased - which is exactly what you need in a review. A reviewer must understand what it is they are reviewing in order to provide a good review, and PC Review seems to have good reviewers. This is great, because not all review sites are like that, and not all are unbiassed unfortunately (not mentioning any names).

Great work guys - keep up the good reviews

[floppybootstomp]

Alrighty, you've convinced me, you're not hand in glove with Diskeeper

I'm glad you replied and hope to see more of you here.

And I go by the name of Slippery in online Games, including UT2004, though I haven't played it for probably around a year now.

Thank you for your comments

[FlakMagnet]

Lol! No, I don't work for Diskeeper. Although I can see why you thought I might


Unfortunately, I work on accounting software for a company called Infor in the UK. I am a Software Architect, so I design and implement software, as well as lead a small team of developers.

If only it was as exciting as Diskeeper

[crazylegs]

Tried this software the trial version didn't like it at all..

Since installing the software the damn hard drive light doesn't go out and its driving me up the wall, so I uninstalled it...And yes peace at last...The hard disk has stopped going ten to the dozen...

I won't be reinstalling it thats for sure....I think i'm gonna stick to good old defrag in windows once a month...

[muckshifter]

... the damn hard drive light doesn't go out and its driving me up the wall

Yeah, I know what you mean ... my CPU won't idle for more than a few seconds & my memory is in constant use also. The only way I have found to stop all this 'activity' is to turn the bloody PC off.


I mean, what use is havin a HD if something is going to use it all the time ...

Hey! I just had a brilliant idea ... take the HD LED off the MB ... It won't flicker anymore.

[FlakMagnet]

Originally Posted by crazylegs

Tried this software the trial version didn't like it at all..

Since installing the software the damn hard drive light doesn't go out and its driving me up the wall, so I uninstalled it...And yes peace at last...The hard disk has stopped going ten to the dozen...

I won't be reinstalling it thats for sure....I think i'm gonna stick to good old defrag in windows once a month...

Sounds like you had Auto-Defrag turned on. If you don't like that, you can turn it off and perform manual defrags.

I guess it also had a lot of work to do too to defrag your disk. Once it is defragged, it only has to maintain the drive rather having to perform a huge defrag. So if you had let it run to completion, you would have noticed that the HD LED would stop flashing.

The defragger in Windows is just too slow and doesn't actually defrag the disk completely. You have to run it many times in order to get anywhere near a fragment-free disk. Diskeeper is much quicker and actually does defrag the disk in one go!