Are You Running the Wrong Edition of PerfectDisk?

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As many of our customers who know the PerfectDisk brand make the transition from physical servers to virtualized servers, they aren’t necessarily aware of the critical difference between PerfectDisk Server and PerfectDisk vSphere or PerfectDisk Hyper-V.

Knowing the difference in the capabilities of these solutions can mean a choice between productivity-stifling I/O bottlenecks and an efficiently-run operation with a major return on investment.

PerfectDisk Server is the best solution for optimizing physical server performance but if you’re running servers in a virtualized setting, read on… Continue reading →

Maintaining High Availability & Performance in a Virtualized Environment

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Do You Like Your Pizza Ready On Time?

National Systems Center (NSC) has been providing technology solutions to the food service industry since 1973. The company currently hosts the QuikOrder online ordering website which provides restaurants with a state-of-the-art system for receiving and fulfilling customer orders. NSC services a number of restaurant groups, including one of the United States’ largest pizza chains. Continue reading →

10 Fixes For Common Device Driver Errors

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Believe it or not, Windows XP is still the most-used operating system around, with over 45%* market share, even though it’s been around for 10 years and has been replaced nearly three times.

The older your operating system, the more likely you are to have old, outdated drivers interfering with the performance of your PC, the devices attached to it and added software. Outdated drivers can even affect the latest operating systems. PerfectUpdater provides an all-in-one fix and is compatible with Windows 7, Vista and XP.

Update Your Drivers with PerfectUpdater

You may recognize some of the following common error codes generated by your Device Manager:

1. This device is not configured correctly. (Code 1)

  • Reason: Device drivers are missing or configured incorrectly.
  • Solution: Update your drivers.

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Update from VMware Partners Exchange

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Bob Nolan, Raxco Software’s CEO, attended the VMware Partners Exchange (PEX) in Las Vegas last week Vegas; this is the show where VMware meets with its worldwide partners and kicks off the new year.

Here is a brief overview of the show from Bob:

There were keynote addresses by the VMware co-presidents, Paul Maritz and Carl Eschenbach, Chief Technology Officer Dr. Steve Herrod, Channel Senior Vice President Scott Aronson and others. These guys have all been in place for the 3 years I have attended these events, and its clear they have a plan and are sticking to it. There are some very bright guys here. Continue reading →

How To Turn Off 5 Annoying Windows Features

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How many times a week do you need to close out a nagging message at the bottom of your desktop? Do you ever find yourself in the middle of a task when Windows decides it’s time to shut down and reboot without your permission?

We’ve all encountered annoying system features we wish we could turn off. With a few registry edits,  now you can!

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Fix Your Slow Android Smartphone

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Fix Your Slow Android Smartphone

“I just used PerfectDisk to defrag my HTC EVO Android phone. I connected to the PC in my office and the phone’s SD card shows in the PC’s directory. PerfectDisk said the card was 10% fragged and at 60% performance. After about an hour it works great. Continue reading →

Raxco is gold again (or still)

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For the 12th consecutive year, Microsoft has recognized Raxco’s accomplishments by naming us a Microsoft Gold Partner again, for 2012. This award does not come easily, and we don’t take it lightly. There are numerous requirements to achieve this honor. Most notably, there is a long set of requirements and tests PerfectDisk has to go through. Microsoft engineers put PerfectDisk through a rigorous set of usability, functional and compatibility tests to ensure it meets Microsoft standards.

While we get some gold plaques for our walls, our customers get the satisfaction and comfort of knowing PerfectDisk is part of Microsoft’s elite set of certified applications.

8 Reasons Your Virus Protection Isn’t Perfect

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Just over two weeks ago, I was visiting a friend who suffered a virus attack on her laptop. Annoyed and perplexed, she told me the only thing she could think of was that she had received a Facebook wall post from a friend inviting her to see the people that had viewed her profile. Being less technically aware than I, she clicked on the link hoping to see a list of those who were curious enough about her to view her profile page and photos. Needless to say, she had fallen for what seemed like the oldest trick in the book, at least to an Internet geek like me.

Protect Yourself from Malicious Facebook Links – Download a Free Trial of PerfectAntivirus

I use the term “geek” loosely because I have worked in the online market for about a decade but a true IT geek I am not. I would say I’m more technically-savvy than a big chunk of the population – I started using the Internet in 1993, I can set up a wireless router, hook up your Internet cable modem, and I even know little tricks like doing a system restore and looking at the source code of a web page to unmask links.

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