Add-In: PowerSwitch

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

An add-in for those of us that like saving power (which we should all be). PowerSwitch ads a tab in the settings dialog which enables you to set a power down state to wake up and to sleep your home server and which method to use, either shutdown or hibernate if supported.

PowerSwitch

More info is available here.

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Data Corruption Bug and How to Avoid it

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

Terry Walsh from WeGotServed talks about the data corruption bug that has hit Windows Home Server and points out how to avoid it over on The Media Center Show Podcast.

Available here.

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PerfectDisk 2008 Updated

February 28, 2008 — Philip Churchill

The defragmentation tool PerfectDisk 2008 has been updated to build 43. The following features and fixes are for all versions of PerfectDisk 2008. eg Professional, Server,  WHS etc:

  • New Features
    1. Improved defragmentation speed.
    2. Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800×600 or 1024×768.
    3. Added print statistics functionality.
    4. Updated help files.
    5. Added ability to set license key via Active Directory Group Policy.
    6. Added the logging of a reason why the StealthPatrol schedule was suspended.
    7. Added “Every X weeks” field to the Exchange weekly schedule.
    8. Added Help Button in PerfectDisk Settings window.
    9. F1 opens Help.
    10. Added a warning when manually starting Exchange Defragmentation that this will dismount the datastore/stop the services.
  • Bug Fixes
    1. Fixed boot time defragmentation “Insufficient Space” error on Vista.
    2. Fixed installation on a remote computer problem.
    3. Fixed setting of the Exchange server name to allow the usage of PerfectDisk 2008 for Exchange on cluster servers.
    4. Fixed the problem of initiation of boot time defrag on a remote computer that would lead to reboot of the local computer.
    5. Fixed persistence of boot time defrag settings for FAT16 drives.
    6. Fixed problem when system tray icon shows idle state even though PD is currently defragmenting a drive.
    7. Fixed US-only non-localizable date format on Performance tab.
    8. Fixed file size displayed incorrectly for large files after defragmenting selected files.
    9. Fixed issue when sometimes fragmented files do not show up in the most fragmented files list.
    10. Fixed limit for “Every X weeks” field for weekly schedules.
    11. Fixed PerfectDisk crash when USB drive is removed during a defragmentation of another drive.
    12. Fixed incorrect saving of statistics to a file.
    13. Fixed screensaver defragmentation that used to stop when monitor turns off.
    14. Fixed the display of Daily schedules set to run on Weekdays or Weekends on AutoPilot tab.
    15. Made Free Space tab hidable in the server version of PerfectDisk 2008.
    16. Fixed setting of “Stop if any shadow copies exist” option.
    17. Fixed value of settings for “Every X Days” field when Daily schedules field edited.
    18. Fixed settings of “Defragment the selected system files on EVERY reboot”; made the behavior consistent with PerfectDisk v8.
    19. Fixed problem when some file extensions could not be added to the extension list on Free Space tab.
    20. Made default extension lists consistent on Free Space tab.

    Existing users can update from within the program interface and new users can download an evaluation copy and get more information from here.

    • UPDATE: Build 43/Service Pack 1 of PerfectDisk 2008 has been temporarily pulled. You will not see this if you try to update now. A new build and service pack will be coming shortly.

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