Coming Soon - PerfectDisk 8

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Still looks ugly, if will not be major improvements or huge bugs fixed in the 8.0 version personally i will stick with the good, old 7.0 :no:

I think you should upgrade, as i noticed that its much faster now. Also now you can defrag a single file.

Here is the changelog :

NEW patent-pending Resource SaverTM technology allows PerfectDisk to find all the pieces of a file without first opening the file, saving all the system resources typically required to open each file. This allows PerfectDisk to more efficiently defragment even the largest of drives with minimal system impact.

Statistics: The following NEW features have been introduced in the Statistics:

Addition of new graphing ability to visually track fragmentation and performance statistics over a period of time.

Additional File Type statistics have been added. There are several pre-defined file types based on file extension (text, program, music, graphic, video) as well as users can add additional extension to these defined file types. This allows users to quickly identify what "types" of files are on their system (number of files and size on drive) and which ones are taking up the most space.

Last Analysis or defrag bitmap statistics are available. This allows USERS to run PerfectDisk and see the result of a defrag pass that occurred (at) some time in the past when the user wasn't monitoring the result.

AutoPilot Scheduling: The entire scheduling capabilities are now under the NEW name AutoPilot Scheduling. The following NEW and ENHANCED features have been introduced in the Scheduling:

Scheduling has been ENHANCED to allow for more robust combinations. For example, you may schedule a defrag to run weekly on Mondays and Thursdays only.

NEW Screen Saver scheduling for the Professional version of Windows has been introduced. This allows users to have PerfectDisk automatically defragment their drive(s) when Windows detects that their computer is "idle" (not being used by the user) and the drive hasn't been defragmented in X days (user definable). This gives an additional method to allow you more flexibility to scheduling defragmentation.

NEW Single File Defrag: Rather than defragmenting the entire drive, this allows users to quickly and efficiently select a single file for defragmentation (e.g., graphic or video file that you may be working on, game file, etc.).

NEW Consolidate Free Space Defrag: part of PerfectDisk's Space Restoration TechnologyTM. This method creates the largest piece of contiguous free space available which can be useful prior to creating large files or in performing partition resizing operations. It is also useful prior to compressing a virtual hard drive on a virtual machine, as a large amount of contiguous space can be recaptured.

NEW I/O throttling: PerfectDisk automatically detects if the drive is "busy" and thus reduces its drive I/O usage during that time. This allows PerfectDisk to run on very busy drives without imposing any additional load.

NEW CPU throttling: PerfectDisk allows you to raise or lower the CPU priority at which it runs. While PerfectDisk actually uses very little in CPU resources, it allows customers that have CPU bound systems to feel comfortable running PerfectDisk at a lower priority and not impose a noticeable CPU load on the system.

NEW Automatic shutdown after defrag: PerfectDisk has the ability to automatically shut down the system after a defrag pass has been performed (Workstation versions of Windows only).

NEW Power Management: PerfectDisk detects if a system is running on battery (UPS) and then decides whether to stop or not start defragmentation. This is most applicable to laptop users who need to preserve battery life. This is also useful for systems running on a UPS.

NEW On Screen Help: PerfectDisk has introduced the On Screen Help functionality that gives you an overview of the actions that can be performed when a particular section of PerfectDisk is in focus. The help window is located at the right side of the PerfectDisk window and can be resized or closed.

PerfectDisk Command Center

For corporate users, the new PerfectDisk Command Center, a management console for deploying, scheduling, configuring, managing, and reporting on your enterprise defragmentation. The PerfectDisk Command Center is designed for the corporate user who manages a group of computers in large scale corporations. PerfectDisk Command Center provides the ability to deploy, manage and configure multiple computers on networks without users needing to know how to use Active Directory or 3rd party tools.

The goal of the Command Center is to provide the ability to manage a group of computers remotely and simultaneously. The PerfectDisk Command Center provides a single glance status summary showing any fragmentation "issues" found with your managed computers. "Issues" could be that a defrag pass has never been performed, a scheduled defragmentation pass didn't run as configured, file fragmentation is high, free space fragmentation is high, etc...

Alerts are color identified to visually draw attention to any problems that administrators can then quickly resolve.

Administrators can deploy and update PerfectDisk quickly and efficiently across a large number of systems. Administrators can check the status of deployment and updates at any time.

Provides the ability to custom define groups and only see those computers that you want to manage. If you only manage 10 computers, you don't want to see 100 computers in your network.

Provides email notification if an Alert or Warning threshold is reached. Administrators do not have to remember to check if there are issues. PerfectDisk notifies them automatically if there are any issues. This removes the checking from their daily/weekly checklist of things to do.

For each managed computer, a connection directly to terminal service/remote desktop is provided. If there is an issue, the administrator can directly remote into that computer without having to leave the PerfectDisk Command Center. This saves time in troubleshooting.

PerfectDisk Client statistics are accessible from the PerfectDisk Command Center, allowing administrators access to the data for reporting purposes.

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Malisk

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Still looks ugly, if will not be major improvements or huge bugs fixed in the 8.0 version personally i will stick with the good, old 7.0 :no:

Looks ugly? :huh: :huh:

What are you valuing in a defrag application exactly??

I certainly found the lower resource usage look tasty, for one thing.

Heck, I'd use a text mode defragger if that would be far better than the competition.

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Arckon

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after looking at the second set of screenshots, I guess the UI aint THAT BAD. I still don't like the yellow and blue because it reminds me of Norton. If anything, they should have set it to use the system color scheme instead. But other than that, I'm going to upgrade my v7 to v8 because of the performance improvements.

@Jugalator, In v7, you can use PerfectDisk from the command line. I don't remember what the commands were though.

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Gavin001

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Looks ugly? :huh: :huh:

What are you valuing in a defrag application exactly??

I certainly found the lower resource usage look tasty, for one thing.

Heck, I'd use a text mode defragger if that would be far better than the competition.

QFT!! :D

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Gavin001

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Any time i try to install this i get blue screens and have to run my computer from the last known good config. it gives an error with DeFragFS.sys and LF30XP.sys and i believe LF30XP is Lock Folder XP.......would that be conflicting with Perfect Disk?? :s

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I just tried 8.0 and i'm going back to my old, good 7.0, why:

- don't like the interface

- more heavy on resources than 7.0

- it doesn't defrag faster than 7.0 like someone says on this topic

- i got a blue screen of death after the first defrag

- look and feel like the ''bloated'' Diskeeper

Maybe is just my impression but Raxco has to work more in the 8.0 releases, i will try it again when a new version comes out. :)

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Cyber Dog

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Anybody find it weird that they're using the QT toolkit to form the GUI now? Could this mean that they're expanding to more OSes?

Like what? I mean most other OS's don't have the defragmentation needs Windows does...

The sad thing for me is to run it on my server it'd cost $240. $240 for a defrag tool, when there's a free one built in? Good luck with that sales pitch.

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