Im going to get Perfect Disk 11, had version 10 and really liked it, the question is ive seen Perfect Speed on Raxco website, is this just a gimic or does it actually work? Don't really like messing with the registry. Any views would be appreciated.
Perfect Disk 11 and Perfect Speed?
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Dunno about a gimmick but it costs the same as perfectdisk and appears to contain the perfectdisk engine, so theres no harm in trying it. Though there are freeware defraggers [mydefrag springs to mind] that do the same job in a less intrusive fashion.
Nobody needs to spend £20 on a disk defragmenter, let alone a glorified registry cleaner. Fragmentation just doesn't slow down a modern home PC very much until it reaches high levels. I'd be extremely surprised if you could notice any performance difference after using PerfectDisk compared to a decent free program like Defraggler, or even the built-in Windows defrag. Lots of free programs will even do the 'advanced' stuff like boot file optimisation.
As for PerfectSpeed... like all registry cleaners, it's snake oil. It's very hard for these programs to identify which registry keys can be removed, apart from a few very obvious ones. And at any rate, modern (post-XP) versions of Windows don't seem to be particularly susceptible to registry-related slowdowns. I'd be pretty surprised if you could notice an improvement after using that, too.
It certainly doesn't do anything else useful. It deletes your temp files - which CCleaner will do for free. It clears your history - which CCleaner will also do for free. And it'll change a few settings for you - which you can do for nothing.
As for PerfectSpeed... like all registry cleaners, it's snake oil. It's very hard for these programs to identify which registry keys can be removed, apart from a few very obvious ones. And at any rate, modern (post-XP) versions of Windows don't seem to be particularly susceptible to registry-related slowdowns. I'd be pretty surprised if you could notice an improvement after using that, too.
It certainly doesn't do anything else useful. It deletes your temp files - which CCleaner will do for free. It clears your history - which CCleaner will also do for free. And it'll change a few settings for you - which you can do for nothing.
Windows Defrag is more than sufficient.
Defraggler is a free option if you absolutely must have a few extra near-pointless defrag settings.
If on Windows 7 and possibly Vista, you can set the defrag to run on a schedule so you never have to worry about it ever again.
Whatever option you choose, don't spend money on it.
Defraggler is a free option if you absolutely must have a few extra near-pointless defrag settings.
If on Windows 7 and possibly Vista, you can set the defrag to run on a schedule so you never have to worry about it ever again.
Whatever option you choose, don't spend money on it.