Now just a few days away from Microsoft’s launch of the highly-anticipated Windows 7, the media can’t seem to get - or I should say give - enough. We’re now into the final stretch where even the mainstream media weighs in. And Dell is making a push on the business side for Windows 7, as [...]

Writing in the October 5th issue of Computerworld, Mitch Betts reports on tech analyst Jack Gold’s new cost model that casts doubt on many companies’ new mantra of holding on to notebooks for 2 years beyond the usual 3-year life cycle, in order to avoid the capital expense of replacing them. Gold argues that with battery replacements, [...]

                                                 
We’ve put together a page on our web site as a resource for those of you looking at Windows 7 and researching the issue of defragmentation.
You can view the page here: www.perfectdisk.com/windows7defrag.
Windows 7 arrives later this month - for those of you taking the plunge, have fun!
             

                                                                                          
We’ve released a new white paper that outlines some of the key differences between PerfectDisk and the Windows 7 built-in defragmenter. You can download the paper here.
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Consolidating directories improves drive performance. The performance improvements come from the speed at which any disk scanning or analysis takes place. This includes everything from user performed file searches to anti-virus scans and backups.
The Windows 7 defragmenter does not perform any directory consolidation, making it…..slower, less efficient and more resource intensive.
Everyone — well, many, many [...]

Many people use PerfectDisk to better shrink their drives. PerfectDisk helps because of its free space consolidation capability, which puts data at the front of the drive, making the rest of the drive free and clear for shrinking. Here’s what to do.
If you have System Restore enabled (which it is by default), the files/clusters taken up [...]

                                              
There has been a lot of positive press about Windows 7, and the noise gets louder every day as we approach the October 22nd launch date. One of the positives that has been mentioned by some is a faster boot time under Windows 7. Writing in his blog The Blade, Microsoft MVP [...]

Continuing PerfectDisk’s longstanding tradition of certification, Microsoft has certified PerfectDisk 10 for Windows 7. Microsoft’s certification programs are designed to ensure that third-party software applications operating on Windows 7 meet specific requirements for compatibility and reliability on Windows 7. No other disk defragmenter has achieved this certification from Microsoft.  You can read the press release [...]

PerfectDisk 10 Build 119 is now available. Here’s what’s changed with the client:
New Features
     - Updates made for Windows 7.
Bug Fixes
     - Boot time defragmentation on Windows 7.
     - Group Policy Weekly Schedule repeatedly deleted and recreated.
Several bug fixes have also been made to the PerfectDisk 10 Enterprise Console.    
You can “Check For Updates” under the Product Resources [...]

                                                  
Continuing with our series on the limitations of the Windows 7 defragger, I”ll take a look at VSS today. In Windows, the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) provides access to previous versions of files, supports various types of backup activity, enables creation of stable snapshots of open files, and provides mechanisms for creating Restore [...]