Thanks to all for your replies. I have decided to go with Perfect Disk as
both it and Diskeeper seem almost the same. PD had a couple of small things
DK didn't have at this time but were going to add, but the deciding factor
was I found PD on sale for a $1 cheaper and FREE shipping and I wanted the
Retail packaging as updates seem to want that or if you go with the
competition down the road they want proof that you owned another brand.

"Andrew Rossmann" <andysnewsreply@no_junk.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.21b20ac811851c8598994a@newsgroups.comcast .net...
> In article <1FC585F7-DFDB-4989-BA4A-6B135A022F68@microsoft.com>,
> dmathews9586@comcast.net says...
>> I hate the way the Vista Defrag works. I can no longer see what it is
>> doing
>> nor can I tell it which drives to defrag. Since I have 2 drives, each
>> having 1 terabytes of space this can be a very slow process. There is no
>> reason for it to try to defrag the 2nd drive as I am using it for backups
>> and storing pictures/music on. What else is out there that you guys/gals
>> would recommend? I downloaded a copy of Perfect Disk trial that I'm
>> trying
>> out. The other one I was looking at is Disk keeper. Perfect Disk has
>> the
>> window to show me what it doing, haven't investigated Disk keeper yet.
>> Suggestions?
>
> I've been using Diskeeper since NT4. I've never had issues with it. I
> even had one computer at work that would sometimes reboot in the middle
> of a defrag (a hardware problem) and no data was ever lost.
>
> I have 2007 Pro on my home Vista system, although I think I could have
> stuck with the more basic Home version. The pro version just adds
> FragShield and 64-bit support. I generally have auto-defrag off, and run
> a manual defrag before shutting down for the day. You do get a display,
> and it even shows the file being moved on the bottom of the display.
> There are also all sorts of other options, most of which I don't bother
> with.
>
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