Jeremy

My install is the same except I do use explorer.exe. I've tried several shells but have always come back to explorer since I'm old fashioned and just used to it. I don't like having to get used to navigating my PC as soon as Windows loads up.

Couldn't agree with you more, Crahak.

Wow, Ghost 2003 is not only an imaging software but also an Internet browser, image viewer, PDF reader, e-mail client, media player, file manager, p2p, etc? I suppose you don't think much of Acronis True Image...

I don't agree with that at all. Neither of our systems here at home have floppy drives and we never have any need for one. You can download a boot CD and burn it as easily as making a floppy these days. DirtWarrior, what is the purpose for the BootCD you want?

You've posted that several times. PerfectDisk isn't crapola, either. Just because it wasn't written by the people who originated the API for defrag, doesn't mean it sucks. And who cares about Scientology... I also don't consider restoring an image file every night or week a way to avoid fragmentation (consistent even). You're essentially doing a defrag by restoring and having your files re-written to the HD in perfect order with no gaps. I suppose the only beneficial thing is that restoring takes less time than defragmenting. However, is it more work for the HD to rewrite your entire partition, or just to defrag the files that already exist? Think about that... Time VS Workload

Well, you've focused so much on bragging yourself up that you forgot to mention the tools you use. I'm sure we use most of the same software anyway, as my main knowledge in PCs goes to security and performance.

Try reinstalling the game?

Latest version of DirectX? Updated video drivers? use Dial-A-Fix to re-register the DX DLLs if you do in fact have the latest DX.

Perform Memtest on you RAM.

Screw floppies.

Yes, I'm aware of all that. However, PerfectDisk can only defragment the MFT, it cannot resize it. If you are using 99% of your MFT and install several programs, it will obviously become larger, and thus fragmented. of course you can just go ahead and defragment it again with PD, or have everything taken care of ahead of time with the resiziing feature in Diskeeper. I personally don't see the big deal in just letting it become fragmented since you'd defragment it immediately afterwards. Like I said before, I just don't like doing it manually anymore. I do think PD does defragment better.

A very good post. Yes, combined with good common sense, a good firewall and using images, AVG isn't too bad. Cheers.

Regarding the MFT, Diskeeper can resize it to a recommended value or a custom one set by the user.

Ok, well, if PerfectDisk had the worst GUI ever but was proven to be the best performing defragmenter of all, wouldn't everyone use it? Anyway, I was simply emphasizing that the GUI is not what should be focused on. I'm not going through this crap again.

The GUI is fine. You're looking for performance, not pretty looks.

Are you trying to create your own custom boot CD or just have one that will allow you to diagnose hardware? Ultimate Boot CD 3.4 GeekSquad Boot CD Reatogo Builder ... 3 good ones right there.

With the new PerfectDisk, you have several options that are not present in Diskeeper. There is the ability to defragment certain USB and FireWire removable storage devices if they support the ability to be defragmented. There's also supposed to be a new feature that allows PD to defragment files without actually opening them first, which is to be beneficial to the performance of your PC while a defrag is taking place. The Fragmentation Threshold is supposed to defragment files whenever they become fragmented if the value is set to 0, which sounds like the equivalent of the SIAFI of Diskeeper, however, it never seemed to kick into action for me. @Zxian, I don't see what the big deal is with PD running a full pass on a drive even if no files have changed. One thing I have observed while using PD is that if you are about to reboot, run a defrag pass so that there are 0 fragments on your drive, then reboot, load Windows and analyse your drive, there will be 15-25 fragments. My point is, if very little change has occurred in the files, when PD runs a full pass, it will only take about 10 seconds. (TAH-MAY-TOE, TAH-MAH-TOE )Granted, if you are using the SmartPlacement defrag and has 1GB+ files on your drive, running a second pass may cause PD to move and optimise it once again, taking longer. That was with v7, so I'm not sure about v8. I will eventually get around to doing an actual comparison. If anyone wants to try it before I do, here's what my plan is. Take a harddrive that hasn't been defragmented in a while, image it, save that image somewhere. Defragment it with PerfectDisk (also set the Frag Threshold to 0) and then copy some large files to different folders and wait about 10 minutes. Copying them multiple times will have those copies fragmented so PD should step right up to the plate and defrag them in no time. Do an analysis and save it off that HD. Then re-image the drive so you're back to it being fragmented. Do the same thing but with Diskeeper and analyze it, also with PD and compare these logs. Post your results here.

Mr. Moderator, I wasn't even on Wikipedia so why are you telling me to click this and that on that webpage?

Oh, I see. I noticed three posts about this "virtual cam" which makes absolutely no sense to me, because if you have no hardware to receive a source image, how the heck...? Anyway, I really feel sorry for a human being who sits on their a** all day just to spam some piece of crap software... the phrase "get a life" really needs to be shoved down their throats.

Try out Trillian. It's multi-protocol, you may have more luck with that.

There we go. Debate settled. Topic can be closed now. Thank you, Tarun.

I still think it was another issue that only made itself apparent to you at that time, which in your case just happened to be when you rebooted after using PD at boot-time. Never ever heard of any defragmenter causing file errors in the 12 years I've been using PCs.

What firewall are you using?

Man, that's got to be THE strangest post I've ever read... ever...

Yeah, I agree. I shouldn't have updated this goddamn thing in the first place, I take full responsibility for the annoyance being the fact that this thread even exists. Die thread, die. I simply don't give a s*** anymore.