Summary: Diskeeper dramatically maximizes the speed of your hard disk file accesses without requiring you to give up your PC for defragmentation. 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. Many new things have been added to the O&O Defrag engine that make using it, especially under Windows 10, even better. 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. 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. The trial versions also allow you to ensure that the sophisticated algorithms of Diskeeper actually work on your computer.
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