No, there’s no merger coming and Hollywood is not joining forces with the federal government. Look up any list of greatest rivalries, and more than likely you’ll see Lakers vs Celtics, Yankees vs Red Sox, Ali vs Frazier, New Zealand vs Australia, Coke vs Pepsi, among others. It’s doubtful you’ll find Diskeeper versus PerfectDisk, [...]

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!
             

Writing in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, staff reporter Jim Carlton delves into the topic of energy consumption, looking at how PC manufacturers are tackling the problem of PCs sucking up “enormous amounts of electricity, often when they aren’t even being used.” Carlton writes that “for a company that has 10,000 personal-computer desktops, for example, just [...]

Growing up in Rhode Island, we had more than our share of pizza joints, with names like Tony’s Pizza, Picasso’s and many more. No surprise, I like pizza. So when I got wind of a recent Saturday night outing in Chicago with a group of men at a local Chicago pizza parlor where the discussion [...]

It’s been quite a year for us here at Raxco Software, as the PerfectDisk 10 family has led to more people, business and government agencies using PerfectDisk than ever before. With our solution set also now covering more than ever - from desktops, laptops, netbooks, and servers to virtual solutions for ESX, Hyper-V and more, and  to Windows Home Server [...]

                                                         
As more and more PCs come to market with x64 architecture, users need to be assured that the applications and software they use on their computers handle the 64-bit architecture corectly. There are certain features of the x64 platform that need to be taken into account when designing and building a [...]

With a topic as hot as virtualization, administrators really need to do their homework when looking at the myriad of solutions for virtual environments. And while the number of virtual defrag solutions is very small, you still need to do your homework. It’s only after digging down into the products that you can really see what [...]

                                   
Milk and cookies getting together, peanut butter and jelly joining at the hip. That’s how some have described the recent announcement of ZeniMax Media, the parent company of game developer Bethesda Softworks, acquiring id Software, the Texas-based developer of game franchises such as Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein. This news generated a lot of excitement [...]

                                                 
The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is a security configuration mandated by the OMB (Office of Management and Budget) of the United States’ President. The FDCC currently exists for Microsoft Windows Vista and XP operating system software. While not addressed specifically as the “Federal Desktop Core Configuration,” the FDCC was originally called [...]