Greg Hayes/Raxco Software
April 16th 03, 10:01 PM
Eddie,
Are you sure that Diskeeper is installed correctly? When you install it,
Diskeeper replaces the built-in defragmenter.
The built-in defragmenter and Diskeeper share a lot of the same things -
look/feel and limitations. However, Diskeeper is easier to schedule than
the built-in defragmenter and has the ability to perform a boot time defrag
(required in order to defragment certain files). They both have the same
limitations: both can take multiple passes in order to defragment (it's
possible to do it in a single pass), require way to much free space (no need
to recommend 10-20% free space), don't really consolidate free space
effectively (partition re-fragments faster).
- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage Management/File System
Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.
"Eddie" > wrote in message
...
> I have Diskkeeper by Executive on my machine, but when I
> click the Diskkeeper icon to start the program, windows xp
> defaults me to the system defrag. Anything I can do about
> this? Also the system defrag looks alot like Diskkeeper.
> Are they one in the same with less features? Thanks for
> the help.
Are you sure that Diskeeper is installed correctly? When you install it,
Diskeeper replaces the built-in defragmenter.
The built-in defragmenter and Diskeeper share a lot of the same things -
look/feel and limitations. However, Diskeeper is easier to schedule than
the built-in defragmenter and has the ability to perform a boot time defrag
(required in order to defragment certain files). They both have the same
limitations: both can take multiple passes in order to defragment (it's
possible to do it in a single pass), require way to much free space (no need
to recommend 10-20% free space), don't really consolidate free space
effectively (partition re-fragments faster).
- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage Management/File System
Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.
"Eddie" > wrote in message
...
> I have Diskkeeper by Executive on my machine, but when I
> click the Diskkeeper icon to start the program, windows xp
> defaults me to the system defrag. Anything I can do about
> this? Also the system defrag looks alot like Diskkeeper.
> Are they one in the same with less features? Thanks for
> the help.