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Running Diskeeper 2008 Pro Premier on your PC is like having a professional maid service clean your house while you are at work. You leave in the morning with the laundry basket overflowing, dishes piled high in the sink and dust bunnies getting ready to stage a coup. When you come home, the laundry is neatly folded, the dishes are sparkling clean and the whole place has a neat, orderly look. It’s like a new house.
That’s what Diskeeper did for my unkempt desktop PC hard drive. At least it feels that way. It’s as though Snow White and her woodland friends cleaned my computer while I wasn’t looking, whistling the whole time.
The best part is that Diskeeper can defragment your hard drive via its InvisiTasking feature, running in the background while you surf the Web or work on documents. So there’s no need to set aside time to defragment your PC.
The software uses I-FAAST file sequencing technology, which puts the files used most often on the most easily accessible part of the disk, while files you rarely use are placed on the back burner.
You can also choose to do a boot-time defragmentation, which defragments the disk every time you boot up. Also running automatically in the background is FragShield, a tool that prevents further fragmentation, a sort of vitamin for your computer’s health.
Diskeeper can perform an analysis of your PC in a few seconds. It provides a map of your drive’s status, showing volume size, amount of free space, total number of files and fragments in a colorful ribbon graphic. My Hewlett-Packard Pavilion laptop PC showed a lot of blue bands, which indicated high-performing files and folders. But there were also little ribbons of red, showing low-performing files and folders. Pink stripes indicate low-performing system files. This red and pink combo looked like an inflammation.
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