PerfectDisk & Windows 7 boot time defrag

[egale]

After upgrading to Windows 7 RC last night, I find I can't do a boot time defrag with PerfectDisk. I can set it all up but when I reboot, the defrag is not done. When I get back into PerfectDisk, it is still set up to do a boot time defrag.

Not sure if Perfect Disk doesn't know how to schedule the boot time defrag in Windows 7 or there is something in Windows 7 I need to set up to get this to work.

 

[starams5]

Hi

Try this follow this registry path and enter the data info.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager

Value Name: BootExecute
Type: REG_MULTI_SZ
Data:
PDBoot.exe
PDBoot.exeautocheck autochk *
OODBS

 

[corkyg]

Saw your post on the PD Forum . . .

PD

There was no response from PD Tech support. My sense is that until Win7 is RTM they won't spend any money developing the solution.

 

[starams5]

The info in my post is the solution. Other applications will change the info in the BootExecute reg key which will stop PD from running a Boot Time defrag. Just put the default info back in, reboot, and run Boot Time defrag again.

 

[egale]

I got it to work even easier. First I had to start PerfectDisk using Run as Administrator. Then, there is a support tab where it lists problems it finds with your installation and there is a tab to Fix It. I clicked that and it took care of the problem.

I don't have the program on this machine so I can't tell you exactly what the tabs are but once fixed, I no longer have to run as administrator either.

 

[starams5]

Thanks for the tip eagle. I didn't know that option was there, but then again I've been doing it my way long before there was a support tab. I can't agree with you that it's easier, I just double click my exported reg file and I'm done but for a user who is not familiar with the registry your tip should be good news. The application that modifies my BootExecute preventing Boot Time to run is Vista Manager. Good job!