For over a decade, home consumers, business and government agencies looking for the best defrag tool have used PerfectDisk, with its close ties to Microsoft development and industry innovation. How users have been able to enjoy the same defrag tool deployed at companies like CNN, Subway Restaurants, Gibson Guitar, IBM and thousands of others.
There's another large set of consumers who want that same power and quality that PerfectDisk provides, but also want additional tools and slow PC solutions...and they want it from an industry leader. Slow PC fixes are needed by just about everyone to fix slow PC. When thinking about the best registry repair and best registry cleaners, Raxco software has not traditionally been one that people have sought out. Same thing to find and delete duplicate files. But to fix slow PC, thousands of users are now turning to Raxco Software and PerfectSpeed PC Optimizer.
With a safe registry cleaner, duplicate file finder, trace remover and the powerful defrag engine of PerfectDisk, PerfectSpeed can be the perfect solution to fix slow PC, especially for the person or small business with minimal or no computer expertise. You'll be able to read more here about PerfectSpeed and its evolution over the coming months. And it will be evolving.
Looking for slow PC tips? PerfectSpeed is one place to start...or finish.
The debate about whether or not free is good enough for a defrag of the data on your disk drives will likely go on as long as Windows and NTFS are around. I've discussed the merits of third-party defrag software that is not free here before, but I'm not doing that today. However, there are some instances and conditions that lend themselves to a much easier conclusion and a clearer delineation between free and "not free". And I do want to share an interesting user experience with you.
Like the case of the CNN newsroom that was brought to a halt because its servers were so severely fragmented. And a recent story that was brought to my attention by Andrew Hart of Australia. Andrew is a heavy Photoshop user and has 5 1TB hard drives that he gives quite a workout with all he does. And he needed to defrag Windows 7. He gave a couple of freeware defrag tools a try. For his environment, they didn't cut it.
This is how Andy describes his situation:
"After only 3 days of trialing it, albeit to the point of having tried, almost exhaustively, all the available defrag options on very large, heavily fragmented data drives, I have concluded that PerfectDisk 11 PRO is a very competent and comprehensive defragging program. I am very pleased to have it looking after my 5 x 1 Terabyte HDDs in a 64-bit Win 7 computer. On days when I am working in Photoshop CS5, which is quite often, I can generate and delete several gigabytes of image data in a single session, and this makes it virtually mandatory to have a defrag program with robust strength, speed and intelligence to keep my system from becoming bogged down and unresponsive. I have tried the defrag utility built into Win 7 64-bit, as well as another free 64-bit program, but unfortunately neither are quite up to the task of both completely defragging and simultaneously compacting all free space quickly in a single pass. For those requirements I have to look to PerfectDisk."
How to make your PC run faster? There are various things that can help, defragmentation being one. When people look at a defrag utility to defrag Windows 7 or auto defrag XP, at the individual user level, freeware may be considered. But they might not be good enough for the biggest, baddest and ugliest of your drives - the ones with large files that are edited, created and deleted frequently. And when you add things like the ability to find and remove duplicate files, the decision becomes easier still.
Sometimes the best things in life are free. Sometimes, however, as in the case of the best defrag software, free just doesn't cut it.
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In the June 2010 edition of the magazine, Greg Steen gives an overview of PerfectDisk 11 Server in his article
Toolbox: New Products for IT Professionals. One thing Steen covers that is sometimes overlooked by IT personnel and also some reviewers, is that PerfectDisk "is both RAID- and SAN-compatible and is certified to run on your Windows server OSes. PerfectDisk 11 is also aware of and can work with SQL Server and Exchange Systems to ensure that those disk arrays stay in good shape."
Green also points out that PerfectDisk 11 can help with virtualization performance with its integrated tools to help vSphere performance and Hyper-V performance, as well as provide SQL Server performance improvements, Exchange defrag, reporting and even its ability to find and delete duplicate files.
PerfectDisk 11 Server in the June 2010
TechNet Magazine --
here.
Reasonable people can have reasonable disagreements, and often do. Politics, music, travel, to name a few. And of course, our favorite - defragmentation. And while we naturally feel PerfectDisk gives you the best defrag, what often makes the decision to use PerfectDisk a no brainer is the large amount of functionality beyond disk defragmentation and free space consolidation - PerfectDisk’s Space Management component.
From freeing up space consumed by unnecessary files, to being able to find and remove duplicate files with PerfectDisk's duplicate file removal, to seeing a full view of a drive, many users find these tools invaluable. And the fact that they come included with a top-line defragger is all the better.
Leslie Alder of Austin, Texas writes that she was leaning towards PerfectDisk because she was impressed with the free space consolidation “that other tools I looked at did not address very well. But then I came across the Space Management piece of PerfectDisk and I was sold. I do a lot of video editing and I love being able to clean up my drive. After the cleanup and a defrag, my laptop and desktop run like new.” A slow PC fix that includes the ability to easily find and delete duplicate files.
To the moon, Leslie.
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