[kd1966]

I started this thread for the purpose of discussing this new Beta for Diskeeper. What I'd like to see is your comments and such on your installations, running the program, it's options, and how well you think it worked. Don't be shy and please post screenies if at all possible to show us what occurred.
Thanks and look forward to reading your posts!

[phileysmiley]

<u><b>Download</b></u>
Get Diskeeper 10 for Vista <a href="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77534" target="_blank"><b>HERE</b></a>

<u><b>Installation</b></u>
Click Next > Choose folder & Next (this extracts) --
Click Next > Accept & Next > Choose folder and check if want desktop icon & Next > Install > (Register or not) > Finish

<u><b>Setup</b></u> (screenshots illustrate each step)
1) Launch program -- volumes are shown in window:

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2) Click "Quick Start Guide" (upper left) & "Getting Started" window opens:

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3) As instructed, highlight Volume (upper right) & click "Analyze and Defragment Now" (lower left):

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4) Click "Analyze" (lower left) and view results on "Volume Map":

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5) Go back to "Quick Start Guide" to view next steps:

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6)7)8) Click "Job Report" (3 screenshots):

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9) Back to "Getting Started":

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10) Click "Set It and Forget It" (on left) and follow steps in above screenshot:

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11) After highlighting volume D (Vista) and selecting "Enable..." The default is "Smart Scheduling," which runs Diskeeper silently in the background whenever needed, but any schedule may be selected.

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12) Back to "Getting Started" for final steps:

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After following the simple steps above from the "Getting Started" window, Diskeeper is set to automatically defragment volume D (Vista) in one hour and then whenever needed.

Any or all volumes may be defragmented manually, set to a specific schedule, or set to "Smart Scheduling" as above, which requires no work on the user's part after the initial setup.

Unlike other defragmenting programs, work may proceed and programs may be used while defragmenting is taking place.

In this example above, the first defragmentation has not been completed at this time.

[kd1966]

Wow!! Thanks for that Larry - I've had it installed for abotu a day and a half and only have a couple of screenies, but lots of questions yet to be answered..........

It does seem to actually defrag Vista fairly well in comparison to the Vista defragger

[phileysmiley]

DONE -- Installation and initial setup & scheduling

[gries818]

I like the beta, no problems yet

[imnuts]

this thing is so much better than the built in defragger. If MS doesn't get their act together in fixing defrag.exe, Diskeeper and other such programs are going to get a lot of business.

[Knight Rider]

My Lenovo laptop came with Diskkeeper lite installed, do you think this beta would run on XP, I love the program

EDIT:

This Diskeeper build will only install on the specific builds of the 32-bit Vista noted, it will not install on other Windows platforms. Also note this Diskeeper build must be installed/uninstalled by the default Administrator account only

I'm still gonna try anyways

[phileysmiley]

My Lenovo laptop came with Diskkeeper lite installed, do you think this beta would run on XP, I love the program

No, it says it will only install on Vista. Although they do have a fully functional 30 day trial of the XP version.

[kd1966]

this thing is so much better than the built in defragger. If MS doesn't get their act together in fixing defrag.exe, Diskeeper and other such programs are going to get a lot of business.

Yeah, but that's no surprise, as MS has yet to make a decent defragger with their OS's......... the worst of which were pre-XP OS's

[Knight Rider]

Yeah, it didn't work. Anyways, I'm downloading Vista Beta 2 to dual-boot on my main rig.