Diskeeper 9.0 Professional - Single User

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Product Features

• Maximum defragmentation performance and control for frequent PC users
• Defragments undetectably in the background, just "set it and forget it"
• SmartScheduling mode automatically schedules background defragmentation
• Graphical displays show how much performance is being lost to fragmentation
• Screen saver mode defragments while your system is idle; easy-to-use interface

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00062XIHY
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 22, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,837 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

No matter how powerful your PC is, fragmentation will slow it down. Its just a matter of time. In fact, the harder your system works, the faster it bu ilds fragmentation. Manual, single-pass defragmenters simply cant keep up--in o rder to maintain performance, youd likely spend more time defragmenting than yo u did using the computer! Why bother with a time-consuming manual process, when Diskeeper 9 Professional Edition simply makes the problems of fragmentation go away forever?

Diskeeper 9 Professional Edition allows custom configuration tailored to the wa y you use your system. Fine-tune Diskeeper to your likings or select the defaul t options then "Set It and Forget It", and youll never need to worry about frag mentation again!

Features:

• High-speed defrag engine: At the heart of Diskeeper is a patented high-spee d multi-pass engine that runs 300- to 500-percent faster than the built-in defr agmenter. By running in the background, Diskeeper is completely unobtrusive--in fact its so fast and so efficient that you may not even notice when the defrag mentation engine is active.
• "Set it and forget it" operation: Diskeeper keeps your PC running at its sp eed and reliability potential on its own, even while you are using your compute r. Install and schedule Diskeeper 9, and fragmentation is taken care of automat ically in the background.
• Enhanced scheduling flexibility: Diskeeper 9 provides a range of scheduling options including custom time and day scheduling, screen-saver mode, and exclu sive SmartScheduling mode, which dynamically schedules defragmentation accordin g to your systems usage patterns.
• FragShield: Fragmentation of the MFT (Master File Table, your disks virtual table of contents) and paging file (disk-based extension of memory) causes cra shes, freezes, and lock-ups. FragShield prevents these critical system areas fr om becoming fragmented, eliminating a major cause of crashes, freezes, and lock -ups.
• Boot-time fragmentation: Certain system files (including the MFT in Windows 2000 and NT and the paging file in XP, 2000, and NT) cannot be safely defragme nted while the computer is up and running. Use the Diskeeper 9 boot-time mode t o safely defragment these files and restore your computers reliability
• I/O Smart: New in Diskeeper 9 is I/O Smart technology, which pauses backgro und defragmentation when other programs or processes need access to the drive. I/O Smart ensures that defragmentation with Diskeeper 9 never slows your system down--in fact, its virtually undetectable.
• File performance mode: Fragmentation of a few large files can cause the big gest slowdowns. New File Performance defragmentation mode targets these perform ance bottlenecks and rapidly defragments them for a quick performance boost.
• Fully configurable defragmentation modes: Diskeeper 9 allows you to set the priority level (how much CPU time Diskeeper gets as opposed to other running p rograms) as well as the defragmentation method (max disk performance, quick def ragmentation, file-performance defragmentation, or free-space consolidation). D iskeeper allows up to two schedules per volume, each with its own priority leve l and defragmentation method.
• Enhanced system tray icon: The Diskeeper system tray icon appears any time the defragmentation engine is active, and adjusts its functionality according t o user permissions. Administrators can open the Diskeeper user interface and co mpletely control the current defragmentation job, while non-administrators can "bump" a defragmentation job to a later time.
• Expanded performance displays: The Diskeeper user interface includes perfor mance and reliability analysis graphs that illustrate exactly how much speed an d reliability are being lost to fragmentation on an individual machine. New Per formance Map provides an "at-a-glance" indication of fragmentation conditions o n each individual volume.
• Power saving mode for laptops: For mobile users, Diskeeper 9 includes a pow er saving mode that suspends background defragmentation while the system is run ning on battery power.

Putting an end to fragmentation-related slowdowns once and for all is simple: J ust get Diskeeper 9 Professional Edition, "Set It and Forget It", and keep your PC running like new forever!

Product Description

Advanced “Set It and Forget It” functionality No matter how powerful your PC is, fragmentation will slow it down. It’s just a matter of time. In fact, the harder your system works, the faster it builds fragmentation. Manual, single-pass defragmenters simply can’t keep up—in order to maintain performance, you’d likely spend more time defragmenting than you did using the computer! Why bother with a time-consuming manual process, when Diskeeper 9 Professional Edition simply makes the problems of fragmentation go away forever? Diskeeper 9 Professional Edition allows custom configuration tailored to the way you use your system. Fine-tune Diskeeper to your likings or select the default options then “Set It and Forget It”, and you’ll never need to worry about fragmentation again!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Tool: A must-have, August 9, 2005

By	Robert Bouillon (Cranston, RI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent piece of software, and I recommend it for everyone. This tool is as valuable to me as Lavasoft's Ad-Aware.

I'm a computer professional and as soon as most people find out, their first response is, "Oh my god you need to look at my computer it's SO SLOW. You need to look at it." My typical regiment is:

1) Download, Install, and Run Lavasoft's Ad-Aware
2) Scan for viruses using McAfee's free online scan (Always up-to-date, despite what may be installed)
3) Run through the registry's run and startup folder to stop unnecessary programs from starting on load
4) Download, Install, Schedule, and Run Diskeeper.

People are amazed at how much faster thier computer runs. In fact, after a fresh install I also run Diskeeper just to squeeze every drop of performance out of the PC as possible.

Two important things to note:

- Why is defragmenting important?
- Why not use the built-in defragmenter?

Answers:

Let's say you're writing a document in MS Word. You save the document and close it. Then you begin to write another word document. When you save the second document to disk, windows will likely put the new file immediately after the old file. Well, what happens when you add new stuff to the first file if the second file took up the space the first file had left immediately after it? Well it saves the new changes in the space AFTER the second file, hence creating a fragmented file.

A fragmented file is a file the is not contiguous, and has segments in different physical locations on the hard disk. Picture a fragmented file as a file with other files inside of it, breaking it apart.

If you research hard disk statistics, you'll see 2 common factors in rating hard disk performance: Seek time and transfer speed. Transfer speed is the MAXIMUM speed in which your hard disk can transfer the information over a wire from the disk itself to the computer, after the data is located. Seek time is the average amount of time it takes for the hard drive to locate the file on the disk, when it's not already reading it.

Picture a record player. You place the needle on the song you want to play. As long as you leave the needle in place, the music will play. If you want to change the song, however, you need to life the needle and place it at the location of the new song. When you replace the needle, the music continues. Hard drives are very similar.

If the hard drive is reading a file, it is transferring that file over the wire as quickly as it can read it. If that file is fragmented, however, it needs to "Seek" the location where the file continues. A lot of people will know this as a "Clicking" sound the hard drive makes.

If the computer is trying to read multiple files at once (as most computers do, ESPECIALLY when booting up), and those files are fragmented, the drive is doing a LOT of seeking and less actual data transfer. This is often referred to as "Thrashing" by IT guys, or "Grinding" by others. You'll notice this if your hard drive is doing a lot of work, but your computer is acting very sluggish, making what would be a fast computer very slow. This is because your hard drive is spending more time looking for the data (Seeking) then actually reading the data (transferring), and sending it to your computer.

The hard drive is usually the performance bottleneck for most personal computers. Diskeeper greatly increases your performance by allowing your hard drive to read the files as quickly as possible, making the slowest part of your computer much faster.

Lastly, the built-in defragmenter is slow and "Clunky." It takes a great deal of time to defragment, and doesn't optimize the drive as well to prevent further defragmentation. Moreover, you have to trigger the deframenting manually, and then you can't use your computer for hours. No one ever really does that...


BOTTOM LINE:
Want your computer to run like new every day?

Install Ad-Aware
Install an Anti-Virus
Install Diskeeper

Run your computer like a PRO.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you running fast., April 28, 2005

By	S Smyth (Belfast, Co Antrim United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Because of the explosion of video and audio editing on PC s, it is imperative to keep your media drives / partitions in as defragmented a state as possible, and on a regular basis, to ensure speedy and reliable operation. It’s amazing how much fragmentation quickly occurs on a media drive/partition. or even after applying a Windows service pack, such as SP2.

Windows does come with its own defragger, but it can only be run manually and can’t - unlike Diskeeper Pro - perform a boot-time defrag to get fragmented page files and other difficulties resolved with NTFS formatted drives/partitions, which you really need to be using for media editing, instead of FAT32. The Win 98 defragger is useless unless run in Safe-Mode, but this isn’t a problem for Diskeeper.

This is a well priced product and has many other features to keep your files and drives/partitions in good shape.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ugraded from Exec. Diskeeper 8.0 to 9.0, July 25, 2005

By	S. Yusuf "ogcvi" (U.S Virgin Islands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Great software. The defragging of a hard drive use to take hours when I used the manual windows defragger. I was so impress with the quick and easy use of the software on the 8.0 Pro version that I went and bought the 9.0 Pro version. You can set it up on schedules to work in the background while you work or while the computer is in screensaver mode. I opt for the everyday when ever the file fragment got to 1.0 percent that the software would start. The software started and I never even knew it was running. Unless I look at the taskbar and see a new icon. You can have many and I mean many programs and windows opened and the defragger would still work flawlessly. The performace of the computer never dips. I have XP Pro 3.0Ghz CPU and 1 GB of memory and I use my computer to the max. I have 1 GB of memory like I said that I use and and I still think that it is not enough. I really you my computer to max. I sometimes overclock the cpu and with the defragger I keep the computer as fast as the first day I started it. Trust me anyone you buys this for their computer will definitely not be sorry. I loved it some much that I cannot wait for the 9.0 Pro version to come in the mail. There is so many new features in the new version. The current version has a schedule called set it and forget it. Which literraly mean set it and forget it. The defragger only comes on when it needs to. Everything is totally automatic.