Rather than relying on one-off defragmentation routines, Diskeeper runs continuously in the background grinding away to keep your file system tidy. This reduces the processing load both during the writing and reading process, theoretically speeding up your computer. The automatic IntelliWrite function limits file fragmentation by steering Windows to write files contiguously. Diskeeper takes a more holistic approach that includes protection against file fragmentation. It's relatively unsophisticated though, and can only be executed as a one-off housekeeping job that you deploy when the Windows files system has become heavily defragmented.
Diskeeper 2010 aims to overcome this fragmentation problem and keep you file system in tip top condition.Īll versions of Windows come equipped with a disk defragmentation utility. While this has no impact on the way you use and manipulate them, over time your hard disk's performance will wane as it both struggles to both collect and reassemble, and divide and distribute file slithers across its magnetic platters. Over time, repeated reading, editing and writing of files inevitably means that they become fragmented across your hard disk.
#Windows diskkeeper Pc#
Summary: Diskeeper dramatically maximizes the speed of your hard disk file accesses without requiring you to give up your PC for defragmentation.Although your computers operating system represents files and folders as contiguous items, the physical reality on your hard disk is rather different. And the future looks bright: Because Diskeeper doesn't get in the way I won't be tempted to avoid disk optimization for so long. And its thoroughness rewarded me by morphing a sluggish computer that had needed defragmentation for too long into a peppy performer again. In informal testing, Diskeeper didn't win any speed awards, but it didn't get in the way while it ran in the background, either despite the torture testing that I threw at it.
So the slight latency while the utility performs its background defragging is reduced even more. Based on data provided by the software's publisher, the number of remaining free-space fragments after running the latest version of its product is a miniscule fraction of those fragments compared to its previous version, which was none too shabby.ĭiskeeper10.0's Smart Scheduling feature is also more proactive in dynamically adjusting automated defragmentation based on volume-level fragmentation. If you have experienced defragmenting problems on a computer that's very low on free disk space or that has very large files, you'll appreciate the latest version of Diskeeper.
#Windows diskkeeper pro#
So I installed the product on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine for this column. Installation was uneventful, but 98 went bump in the night each time I started the utility. For example, I first tried to test Diskeeper on a PC running Windows 98 SE, which the Diskeeper specs say is a supported OS.
#Windows diskkeeper trial#
The trial versions also allow you to ensure that the sophisticated algorithms of Diskeeper actually work on your computer.