Diskeeper, anyone used it?

Marty4 · 02-20-2007, 06:42 PM

A friend of my dad recomended this program, downloadable off the internet, for use in routine maintainance with the computers around the house. Has anyone heard of/used this program? Is it any good?

Thanks in advance for any information!

Bozos of Bones · 02-20-2007, 06:49 PM

It is good.
Great even.
Favorite feature is doing stuff with virtual memory. A permanent end-of-disk virtual memory easily obtainable!

PurpleXVI · 02-20-2007, 06:52 PM

Well, I haven't used it myself, but a bit of looking around seems to find plenty of bug reports, though not all of them seem equally reliable. Looks like everything from crashes through data corruption. Data corruption does, in fact, seem to occur almost EVERY time for some people, at least when doing certain types of defrags.

Also appears that it may have some compatability issues with Windows Vista, if you're using that. There also appear to be issues with Diskeeper and tablet PC's.

It also seems like some features may work badly or not at all unless you have Internet Explorer as your standard browser. Definitely the autoupdate function will fail to work unless this is so.

As a final worry, the corporation is run by Scientologists. Quite fanatical ones, apparently, they refuse tech support to people associated with products that Scientology is opposed to. I'd stay away from the product just for that, myself.

Bozos of Bones · 02-20-2007, 06:58 PM

OK, that I did not know. Never bothered to google it up, just got the thing on a DVD. Works fine even thoug I use Firefox, but then again, I don't update it. I don't need to. All I really used it for is the virtual memory part on my last format.
Creepy stuff, about scientology.

Marty4 · 02-20-2007, 07:34 PM

Thanks for the responses!

I figure I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. I'll post back here if something goes bonkers [img]tongue.gif[/img]

02-20-2007, 06:49 PM	#2
Bozos of Bones Apophis Join Date: July 29, 2003 Location: The Underdark cavern of Zagreb Age: 37 Posts: 4,679	It is good. Great even. Favorite feature is doing stuff with virtual memory. A permanent end-of-disk virtual memory easily obtainable! __________________ MAKE LOVE, NOT SPAM!

02-20-2007, 06:58 PM	#4
Bozos of Bones Apophis Join Date: July 29, 2003 Location: The Underdark cavern of Zagreb Age: 37 Posts: 4,679	OK, that I did not know. Never bothered to google it up, just got the thing on a DVD. Works fine even thoug I use Firefox, but then again, I don't update it. I don't need to. All I really used it for is the virtual memory part on my last format. Creepy stuff, about scientology. __________________ MAKE LOVE, NOT SPAM!

02-20-2007, 06:42 PM	#1
Marty4 Symbol of Cyric Join Date: August 31, 2004 Location: VA Age: 33 Posts: 1,127	A friend of my dad recomended this program, downloadable off the internet, for use in routine maintainance with the computers around the house. Has anyone heard of/used this program? Is it any good? Thanks in advance for any information!

02-20-2007, 06:52 PM	#3
PurpleXVI Emerald Dragon Join Date: April 6, 2005 Location: Denmark Age: 38 Posts: 903	Well, I haven't used it myself, but a bit of looking around seems to find plenty of bug reports, though not all of them seem equally reliable. Looks like everything from crashes through data corruption. Data corruption does, in fact, seem to occur almost EVERY time for some people, at least when doing certain types of defrags. Also appears that it may have some compatability issues with Windows Vista, if you're using that. There also appear to be issues with Diskeeper and tablet PC's. It also seems like some features may work badly or not at all unless you have Internet Explorer as your standard browser. Definitely the autoupdate function will fail to work unless this is so. As a final worry, the corporation is run by Scientologists. Quite fanatical ones, apparently, they refuse tech support to people associated with products that Scientology is opposed to. I'd stay away from the product just for that, myself.

02-20-2007, 07:34 PM	#5
Marty4 Symbol of Cyric Join Date: August 31, 2004 Location: VA Age: 33 Posts: 1,127	Thanks for the responses! I figure I'll give it a shot and see how it goes. I'll post back here if something goes bonkers [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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