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Glad that you like it - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevie....asp?frame=true Look under the section titled Evalution Issues and look at item #1. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

"What's the best defragger under WinXP Pro for: -> the registry" Are you referring to internal fragmentation of registry hives (due to deleted registry keys) and compacting the registry hive to recover space? OR are you referring to defragmenting the registry hives as they exist on disk - so that the hives are contiguous? If the latter, then no "special" defrag software is needed. Microsoft's defrag APIs fully support defragmenting registry hives while Windows is running. ANY defragmenter should be able to defragment registry hives. - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

I personally think that Executive is reverting back to the "old" way that software was licensed - based on the "power" of the machine - in this case, based on the size and number of drives instead of the number and speed of the CPUs (like mainframe software used to be priced). Our experience is that most companies would rather spend $200 for the ability to defrag a server - regardless of number and size of drives -rather than $1000 - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

No version of Diskeeper V8 is certified for Windows 2000 OR Windows Server 2003. Go to http://www.veritest.com/certification/ms/cfw/cfw_reports.asp for a list of certified applications. Regarding which version of Diskeeper V8 you need to purchase. If you are running a server version of Windows, then you would need to purchase a server version of Diskeeper. Workstation versions will not install on a server version of Windows. Now, the tricky part. Which server version of Diskeeper do you need to purchase. Is your system a web server? Then you might need Diskeeper Server Web. If you want the ability to defragment large drives (greater than 100GB), then you would need to purchase Enterprise Edition or Datacenter edition. At a retail price of about $1000 for Enterprise Edition, I personally think that is way too much money to pay simply for the ability to defragment large drives when there are solutions available for a lot less. The file system (NTFS) doesn't change amonst the various flavors of Windows Server (or workstation for that matter). - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows File Systems Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Verify who has what permissions to access the pagefile. Does System have access? - Greg/Raxco Software Microsoft MVP - Windows Storage

Too bad. I was really interested in hearing of your perception of why PD didn't "stand up" to DK. What did you end up paying for Diskeeper Enterprise Edition? When I bought it for testing/comparision purposes, it cost me $1,000.00 Pretty steep for a defragmenter! - 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.

Actually, it wasnt' much of a "debate". We barely got started before you stopped participating. You had made a claim that PD didn't stand up to DK. I had asked you to elaborate and you never responded. If you would like to continue our "debate", it's your turn - 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.

According to the Diskeeper V7 Second Edition Build 430 readme: "The Diskeeper NTFS boot-time engines have been modified in this build to verify they have exclusive access to the volume being defragmented. This change ensures that no other drivers or services can modify the volume while the boot-time defragmentation is running. If the volume cannot be locked, an error message appears describing this and the boot-time defragmentation will not run." Prior versions of their NTFS boot time engine DIDN'T verify that they had exclusive access to the volume being defragmented 8) How were they previously guaranteeing file system/data consistency ;( I can certainly see why thy are strongly recommending that people update... - 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.

Moving directories online on FATx partitions isn't supported by Microsoft's defrag APIs. To do this requires a boot time defrag. While O&O provides a boot time defrag ability, it doesn't provide a way to select directories. Symantec is recommending PerfectDisk to their customers because they found it from a network management perspective better that what else was available and from a defrag performance perspective better that what else was available (Symantec looked at all of the commercial defragmenters available). Symantec needed to recommend a defragmenter to their enterprise customer and was looking for something that could do the equivalent job or better than SpeedDisk was able to do (by bypassing Microsoft's defrag APIs) - the ability to work well in conditions of low free space, the ability to consolidate free space and speed. I don't mind if you quote me. - 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.

Hey APK, you might want to update your site - a lot of the information is out of date. Microsoft's defrag APIs fully support defragmenting registry files online - it doesn't take a boot time defrag in order to do. Also, PageDefrag will only be able to completely defragment the pagefile IF there is a piece of contiguous free space the size of the pagefile. If there isn't, then it won't be able to completely defragment the pagefile. This means that you first really need to run a defragmenter that does a good job of consoli[censored] free space - which rules out most defragmenters "Speedisk has advantage for networking folks that HAVE to maintain servers". Symantec is discontinuing SpeedDisk for their enterprise customers (servers). Symantec is now directing their enterprise folks to PerfectDisk for their enterprise defrag needs. "The latest FULL model of O&O Defrag also defrags MFT, Pagefiles, directories, & registry". Unless I am mistaken, O&O defrag only allows defragmenting of directories on NTFS partitions. On FATx drives, it is not currently supported. - 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.

"Setup is unable to create enough contiguous space on your hard drive for a GoBack history buffer of 3.187GB" This means that the free space on the drive is fragmented and that GoBack isn't able to find enough contiguous free space to create its history file. You need to defrag with a disk defragmenter that does a good job of consoli[censored] free space (something that the built-in defragmenter really doesn't do a good job of doing). - 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.

How did PD not stand up to Diskeeper? Was it a matter of speed or was it something else? - Greg/Raxco Software

Thanks for cutting-n-pasting the marketing material from Executive Software's web site. However, you forgot to include marketing material from the other defrag vendors - who also claim to be the fastest defragmenter available for Windows - have the most advanced defrag technology, etc - Greg/Raxco Software MVP Windows Storage Management/File System Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software - www.raxco.com, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

O&O Defrag is based out of Germany. It may take a while for a response... - Greg/Raxco Software