By Philip Churchill on February 28th, 2008
PerfectDisk 2008 Updated
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:
- Improved defragmentation speed.
- Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800×600 or 1024×768.
- Added print statistics functionality.
- Updated help files.
- Added ability to set license key via Active Directory Group Policy.
- Added the logging of a reason why the StealthPatrol schedule was suspended.
- Added “Every X weeks” field to the Exchange weekly schedule.
- Added Help Button in PerfectDisk Settings window.
- F1 opens Help.
- Added a warning when manually starting Exchange Defragmentation that this will dismount the datastore/stop the services.
- Fixed boot time defragmentation “Insufficient Space” error on Vista.
- Fixed installation on a remote computer problem.
- Fixed setting of the Exchange server name to allow the usage of PerfectDisk 2008 for Exchange on cluster servers.
- Fixed the problem of initiation of boot time defrag on a remote computer that would lead to reboot of the local computer.
- Fixed persistence of boot time defrag settings for FAT16 drives.
- Fixed problem when system tray icon shows idle state even though PD is currently defragmenting a drive.
- Fixed US-only non-localizable date format on Performance tab.
- Fixed file size displayed incorrectly for large files after defragmenting selected files.
- Fixed issue when sometimes fragmented files do not show up in the most fragmented files list.
- Fixed limit for “Every X weeks” field for weekly schedules.
- Fixed PerfectDisk crash when USB drive is removed during a defragmentation of another drive.
- Fixed incorrect saving of statistics to a file.
- Fixed screensaver defragmentation that used to stop when monitor turns off.
- Fixed the display of Daily schedules set to run on Weekdays or Weekends on AutoPilot tab.
- Made Free Space tab hidable in the server version of PerfectDisk 2008.
- Fixed setting of “Stop if any shadow copies exist” option.
- Fixed value of settings for “Every X Days” field when Daily schedules field edited.
- Fixed settings of “Defragment the selected system files on EVERY reboot”; made the behavior consistent with PerfectDisk v8.
- Fixed problem when some file extensions could not be added to the extension list on Free Space tab.
- 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.
Share this WHS Article with Others:
Why does PerfectDisk 2008 get more coverage than Windows Home Server KB 946676 data corruption?
Is there nothing else to inform us about or provide a time frame for when a resolution will be given?
How about throwing us a bone for goodness sake!
Or how about posting on the Microsoft WHS forums where people who can tell you anything might actually read your post, rather than cluttering up unrelated posts with unrelated comments?
Funny, my build of PD (39) tells me that it’s the latest when I try to update. Doesn’t seem to find build 43??? Did this on both the WHS and client. Has build 43 really been posted?
Oops. Just read the last line of Phil’s note that the build has been pulled. Sorry.
Doug said “Interesting, Roxio PerfectDisk 2008 for WHS continues to be improved, and as we can all see from their openness about the many bugs, they still had demonstrated the ability to fix them.”
While I do commend them on being out front with their problems, IMHO, this list would seem to be one that should be coming out of a pre-beta or beta version of a free-ware type of product…
Hasn’t this company and product line been around for a long time? If that is the case, then I would be quite concerned that they are still dealing with such issues…
Your forgetting that WHS had more than 3000+ bugs, so going by your thinking, that would certainly qualify WHS as beta quality. Not to mention WHS still has the serious data corruption flaw which is based upon it’s core DE technology!
Is it any wonder why WHS developers are working on a second version of WHS, which translates into the reason why no FIX and NO time frame was ever given to provide a resolution for this fatal flaw!
Roxio,
Thanks for your quick response to this issue. I also would love to get your response to my question I left in your add-in forum about the VSS shadow defrag issue some days ago.
I fully agree that WHS is at best beta level software. Having such serious problems, as the data corruption bug, is completely unacceptable to anybody. They know better and shame on them.
But, that being said, I also find such things as “2. Added ability to work in lower screen resolutions, such as 800×600 or 1024×768. ” as also unacceptable in a production product…
I guess I am just use to a higher software development/testing standard for production products.