Diskeeper 7.0

[PowerMacG5]

I know that Microsoft's built in defragger is based on Executive's Diskeeper, but is Deiskeeper supposed to remove the original defragmenter and replace it with its own on Windows XP?

 

[corkyg]

Diskeeper 7 installs as a separate program. You can still use the wimpy XP defragger from Executive. I am currently evaluating Diskeeper 7 along with a competitor - a newby on the block that so far beats DK7 hands down. It is PerfectDisk 2000, ver. 5.0. It does everything that DK does, but faster and also defrags the XP MFT files.

PD

 

[PowerMacG5]

Are you sure, because when I run go to run the built in defragmenter in XP, it loads Diskeeper. It also does this when I double click the file in the Windows\System32 directory.

 

[corkyg]

True - the built in defragger in XP is Diskeeper but not version 7.0 It is DK "Lite." If you install 7.0, you will get a separate program icon for it and it will run separately. Download the demo and try it. You have 30 days to play with it.

DK7

 

[zzzz]

corky,
what he means that after you install diskeeper, you cant run the XP built in defragmenter.

 

[PowerMacG5]

zzzz, did that happen for you as well. I purchased Diskeeper 7.0 from CompUSA, and after I installed it, I went to defrag my HDD, and out of habit I went to the built in utility, and it loaded Diskeeper. Then when I went to the executable file for the built in defragger it loaded Diskeeper as well. I just wanna know if this is normal and happens with other people

 

[FOBSIDE]

diskeeper replaces the default defragmenter.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Thanks FOBSIDE.

 

[corkyg]

My mistake! Fobside is right - the Diskeeper 7.0 eval copy did replace the built in low rent diskeeper. That ices it. Am going with PerfectDisk 2000, ver. 5.0. It is faster, and defrags the MFT files for NTFS that Diskeeper won't touch.

Now to see what happens when I uninstall the eval copy of DK.

 

[corkyg]

Postlude - the eval copy of DK 7.0 uninstalled perfectly, and it restored the original DK 1.0 that came with XP.

Now I have PD2000 and DK1, both operational if necessary. Also, the big loser, NSW's Speed Disk (really slow and can't touch the MTF areas.)

PD2000 wins.

 

[PowerMacG5]

corky-q, Diskeeper defragments both the paging, and MTF areas when you do a boot time defragment. If you try to defragment a paging file of MTF file while the OS is online, it will cause errors. Go into diskeeper and select a boot time defragment, make sure you check all the options you want, and then click set. Then reboot and watch the screen that pops up. It shows that it is defragmenting the paging files, MTF files, directories, and standard files. It took a few minutes to run and my computer is running a lot faster.

 

[corkyg]

Cool! That is good - but PD does it better - one pass, right within the normal optimization/defrag. Also, I find its optimization and GUI more informative. The best part is that PD is faster.