Experience of Diskeeper

**Platypus** · October 26th, 2006, 08:57 AM

I've seen Diskeeper recommended in the past, so when Version 9 appeared as a give-away on a computer coverdisk, I tried it. (There was a suggestion it could defrag NTFS volumes with clusters larger than 4k - it can't.)

I have it installed on my laptop, and it's a pain! It decides to defrag, and it defrags & defrags & defrags & defrags... It chugged endlessly at 85% while I was away on holidays. If you bring up the application window, it tells you which volume it's defragging, but selecting Stop doesn't stop it, it says Stopping, but disk access doesn't stop. When you shut Windows down, it defrags desperately right up until Windows kills it.

Has anyone used Diskeeper? Is this giveaway version just crap, or is the program not all it's cracked up to be?

**NooNoo** · October 26th, 2006, 09:02 AM

I use diskkeeper thats at majorgeeks ... but then it doesn't have a scheduler...

**Platypus** · October 26th, 2006, 09:30 AM

Diskeeper Lite? I tried that first when I read the suggestion about DK handling >4k clusters. Seemed to work fine, but refused >4k. Then the DK9 appeared as a give-away.

**NooNoo** · October 26th, 2006, 09:37 AM

sorry, I have nothing more other than it's unlikely to be the enterprise edition (which is the version that does larger clusters).

**TechZ** · October 26th, 2006, 12:06 PM

I've been a user of Diskeeper since v7, am on v10 right now, and it's excellent, I skipped a few releases in the middle though.

It's by far a very 'worth the money' program.

**Gabriel** · October 29th, 2006, 04:44 AM

I have used diskeeper a lot - But now I moved to Perfect Disk
Which does a very good job - also defrags exchange db's.

Cheers,
Gabriel

**techs** · October 30th, 2006, 11:13 AM

I use the diskeeper lite.
I stop it from doing the automatic defrags by going into Administrative Tools-Services and changing the startup from Automatic to Manual.
Been doing it for years with no problems.

**PuterGeekGirl** · October 30th, 2006, 03:33 PM

We are running it here in the corporate world, pushed out with a policy...no real issues with it.

**Platypus** · October 31st, 2006, 06:19 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

it's unlikely to be the enterprise edition (which is the version that does larger clusters).

Ah, that's the difference. It's the home edition. Anyway I turned off scheduling and it'll be OK but I thought it strange that the Stop instruction did nothing.

**techs** · October 31st, 2006, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by Platypus

Ah, that's the difference. It's the home edition. Anyway I turned off scheduling and it'll be OK but I thought it strange that the Stop instruction did nothing.

hehe. The Stop in Diskeeper has been problematical for years.