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Through the months — hard drive optimized for speed

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Every day we receive numerous unsolicited emails and other forms of messages on a wide range of topics. It’s always nice to receive a message like this, as we did today from Jamie Bellaire, Senior Software Developer at Avatar Software Creations, Inc. in Ontario, Canada.

Jamie’s quote needs no commentary:

Honestly I’ve left it running for all these months and forgot it was even there but a quick check shows my hard drive is fully optimized, kudos to you guys for such a great product!

Well said, thanks Jamie.

PC Magazine’s Top 10 Desktops — optimize them

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When considering new or upgraded technology these days, there’s no shortage of information available online. There are plenty of very smart, technically competent individuals writing blogs and tweeting that I would certainly respect and go to for advice. And while I certainly don’t take them as gospel, I still check on and rely to some degree (at least as part of due diligence) old standbys like CNET, WIndows IT Pro, PC World, etc.

Last week PC Magazine came out with its latest Top 10 Best Desktops list. Whether you completely agree with the list or not, it’s certainly not a bad place to start if you’re in the market. I do like the HP Omni 27 for video work (and play). Of course, if you are picking up a new desktop (or laptop or server) any time soon, remember to keep it running like new. Because if you’re running Windows, NTFS still fragments files and free space

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Welcome….back

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Today is the start of a new era at Raxco Software, with Bob Nolan returning to lead the company after a 10-month absence. But while it is a new start, there are a lot of familiar aspects to it also. We begin a new leg of our ongoing mission to deliver best-of-breed performance, virtualization and storage management solutions along with superior technical support and customer service to the enterprise, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and home and home office markets. Continue reading →

Microsoft Certified Trainers and PerfectDisk

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Microsoft Certified Trainers (MCTs) are an elite, international community that spans more than 150 countries and regions and includes classroom and e-learning instructors, learning consultants, authors, conference presenters, and user group leaders. Microsoft describes MCTs as the ”premier technical and instructional experts on Microsoft technologies, and are the only individuals authorized to deliver training for Microsoft Certification.”

Pete Calvert is a Microsoft MCT and longtime PerfectDisk user. Continue reading →

Boot time defrag for faster performance

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One of the big benefits of PerfectDisk is its boot time defrag capability, which is able to defragment files that otherwise would remain fragmented. These are files such as the Windows pagefile.sys or the file system’s MFT (Master File Table). Your typical run-of-the-mill defrag utility or freeware utility won’t touch these files. Without PerfectDisk, you won’t get a boot time defrag, and the result is not the best disk defrag possible. You want faster PC performance, and part of faster PC performance is a thorough boot time defrag. Continue reading →

PerfectDisk is Utility of the Year

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Through the years, we’ve been proud and honored to receive numerous awards and accolades from the likes of Computerworld. Information Week, Windows IT Pro Magazine, Redmond Magazine, eWeek, PC Magazine, PC World, and more. The honors typically vary according to a publication’s or site’s grouping, but fall under categories like disk defrag utility or performance or storage software.  They have their categories, they match one or 2 PerfectDisk components to the category, and make the award or write the column. Continue reading →

Fragmentation prevention — the next generation

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Years ago, Raxco Software obtained a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a disk optimization strategy we all know as SMARTPlacement. SMARTPlacement organizes the files on a drive according to a user’s unique usage patterns. The result is a drive that is not only defragmented, but is optimized for the user. Free space is consolidated into the largest chunks possible. A benefit of this is that when a new file is created, the chances are much greater that the file is created contiguously- that is, not fragmented. Continue reading →