If like us you believe hard drives suffer from poor performance when they become  fragmented ,then the only recourse open to you is load up Diskeeper 7.0 from Executive Software. All other defragmenters on the market, built in or included with utility software  are either too slow, incomplete or labour intensive. Diskeeper will constantly monitor your hard drives and maintain them at the highest performance level achievable, perhaps just as importantly it will do this when your hard drives are in use.

We came across Diskeeper version 5.0 at the Windows 2000  launch party in London a few years ago. Since then we have reviewed version 5.0, 6.0 and now 7.0. Diskeeper runs in three modes, manual, set it and forget and for those with Windows NT/2000.XP boot-time defragmentation. All of these modes are very easy to setup. After installing on our systems here at Blenheim House, both workstations and server, all running Windows XP Professional, we let them get on with defragmentation of the hard drives. Both the server and workstation versions did this in an incredibly short time. Diskeeper 7.0 needs just minutes to do its job, compared to other such software that needs hours.

Here at Blenheim House we unreservedly recommend Diskeeper  Workstation and Server version 7.0.

Diskeeper 7 Workstation runs on any X86-type (including Pentium) computer that is running Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Professional and Home, Windows 95 (OSR 2 or higher), Windows 98, or Windows Me.

Technical Support is free for the first 90 days. This is extended to 6 months when you register via the support card that's in the box.