With the federal government about to get much larger, the biggest swarm of consultants, "Beltway Bandits" and the like are already starting to infiltrate the Washington, DC area, home of the US government and your favorite defrag company. They're looking for a piece of the stimulus pie and anythi...

                              Sorry for the delay, 10 is coming! French and German versions of PerfectDisk 10 are on their way, and will be available in about a month. Vielen Dank für Ihre Geduld....

Is CHKDSK actually any good? I had a problem a few months ago where my hard drive started corrupting my files. I don't blame chkdsk for this, but when I was trying to sort out how I could recover some of these files, somebody implied that all chkdsk did was mark the sector bad, rather than try and s...

                             Sure, how else are we, who pride ourselves in superior customer service, supposed to feel when we don't see our name listed in Business Week's March 2nd cover story on Extreme Customer Service -- In a Tough Year, 25 Companies That Get it Right?...

Every Sunday, I perform a set of jobs on all my computers. They help optimize the system, save hard disk space, increase security and privacy, etc.   Clean: Using CCleaner, I clean the PCs including all the browser caches and various other application caches. (Read my introduction to CCleaner here....

What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1  a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous...

Written by Simon Mackie. Image by sxc.hu user tryout0 It’s a lovely spring-like day here in Bristol today, which has inspired me to do some cleaning. But I’m not cleaning my apartment (which is spotless, of course); I’m tidying my laptop, getting it into tip-top shape so that it ke...

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                             This post summarizes the differences between PerfectDisk 10 Professional and the PerfectDisk 10 Home Edition. Before getting to the differences, let's look at what they have in common. The answer is -- a LOT. The PerfectDisk 10 Home Edition gi...

Filed under: OS Updates, Windows, Beta It may not be one of the sexier changes Microsoft has made in Windows 7 beta, but the company has changed the way the operating system handles disk defragmentation. Microsoft developers Rajeev Nagar and Matt Garson have written a lengthy post on the Engineering...