- NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE TO BOOT TIME PERFECTDISK 14 PRO PRO
- NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE TO BOOT TIME PERFECTDISK 14 PRO PROFESSIONAL
Update: Version 1.1 of PDRx will be coming out later this year. ( Update: I have since relented and installed it again.
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NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE TO BOOT TIME PERFECTDISK 14 PRO PROFESSIONAL
I will not be reinstalling PerfectDisk 8 Professional anytime soon either: I'm suddenly not so certain of the quality of the software. I was relieved to uninstall it and reclaim 20.5MB of wasted disk space. It's one of those "we know best for you" packages that is more likely to stuff up your machine than actually fix anything significant. I get the feeling that the entire package has been cobbled together and rushed to market without proper testing or consideration of the user. There is no boot time defrag facility, unlike PD8, and the "Screen Saver" defrag option is extremely irritating because it carries on with the file it was busy with even after the screen saver stops. I decided not to try the performance tuneup because the program wouldn't tell me which options are already set and which ones need to be changed. So the dozen or so sites I visit like Amazon, Yahoo Mail and BBC News where a permanent cookie is actually quite useful, all have their cookies removed and I have to answer a whole load of boneheaded questions when I return. What were they thinking?Ī similar fate awaited my "cookies" - delete all or nothing. hlp files used by Office97 and other packages. I decided to test the registry cleanup, and was relieved to find the "Rollback" function worked, especially after the "cleanup" facility decided to delete references to dozens of. The file it displays as being 380MB in size is actually 1.79GB compressed, and 4.37GB uncompressed. Out of curiosity I went to look at the Data folder for SQL Server, and discovered another bug: it gets the size of the compressed files wrong.
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Next I tried the feature that allows you to analyse the file usage on the hard drive. The "after" analysis was basically the same, indicating that PDRx either can't or won't defragment files that massively affect the performance of the machine. Now compare that to the "before" stats displayed by the built-in WinXP Defrag program: I ran the defrag and after 10 minutes PDRx had finished, and displayed the following image.
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I could find no way of listing the names of the fragmented files, or how badly fragmented they were.Įven the hard drive display failed to show the massive files that are significantly fragmented: see top picture. I ran the "Quick Scan" of drive C: and PDRx told me there was nothing wrong, other than the free disk space was fragmented (see below). The problems started when I did the stress tests: copying a 4GB file to a compressed folder, and then restoring the data to SQL Server, again in a compressed folder.
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The interface is simple and easy to follow, and well organised. The second good point is that PDRx shows the name of the file being analysed or defragmented, which is one of the more annoying aspects of PD8. Almost every feature I tried didn't work properly. But it isn't worth the money: it's like PerfectDisk Lite with bugs, and it's a massive 25.8MB download. The first good point I noticed is that at $29.99 it's cheaper that PD8's $39.99. The less they market this product the longer Raxco will remain in business. Going from PD8 to PDRx is like going from the sublime to the ridiculous. I found out about the Rx Suite from the PerfectDisk blog.
NOT ENOUGH FREE SPACE TO BOOT TIME PERFECTDISK 14 PRO PRO
I was looking forward to reviewing PerfectDisk Rx Suite 1.0 by Raxco, since I have been using PerfectDisk Pro 8 for some time already, and found it to be pretty thorough, albeit stubborn and sluggish at times.