PerfectDisk Professional 12.5.308

3.8 out of 5 stars 3.8 (572 votes)

(November 21, 2011)

Windows 2000/Vista/XP / Shareware; $44.95 / 36,035 downloads

PerfectDisk redefines enterprise disk defragmentation addressing an issue that Microsoft, in various published artices, states is often the cause of poor system performance on a system. Provides the most comprehensive solution for defragmentation by optimizing virtually every file on the system, including the Master File Table ($MFT), all metadata, paging files, and directories. Patented SMART Placement technology arranges files on a disk to ensure that free space is consolidated and the future rate of fragmentation is minimized.

  • Publisher

    Raxco Software

  • Homepage

    PerfectDisk

  • Limitations

    Yes - 30 day timeout

  • Latest Changes

    - Contact Raxco Support for new license. PD 12.0 license will not work

    - PerfectDisk Boot log location fixed

    - OptiWrite installation and upgrade issue on Windows XP fixed

    - Check for Updates URL fixed

    - Space Management features not correctly displaying for PerfectDisk Professional fixed

Reviews of PerfectDisk Professional

  1. 2 out of 5 stars
    Stephan44

    Reviewing 12.5.308 (Dec 12, 2011)

    Leave this product alone. You can not stop the auto-update process.
    You are not in control anymore. From now on Perfectdisk will decide for you.
    How good software can turn into bad. Pity, Pity.

  2. 2 out of 5 stars
    soldier1st

    Reviewing 12.0.0.290 (Sep 9, 2011)

    Defragging is not as useful as it once was, SSD's don't need defragging and Windows Vista/7 already come with a good defragger, Why waste money when you don't need to?

  3. 3 out of 5 stars
    Lsavagejt

    Reviewing 12.0.0.290 (Sep 9, 2011)

    I own this thing; exactly why I don't know. I haven't tried this latest version but it takes forever to defrag my son's 4G game and always leaves fragments. S.M.A.R.T is not working, and it constantly complains about excessive metadata. Either I don't know what I'm doing or this software just doesn't work, but either way, this software is just too complicated and the interface is too crowded and confusing, and it always says my computer is running at peak performance even though the map is full of red squares.

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    Sorb

    Reviewing 12.0.0.285 (Aug 19, 2011)

    I downloaded the trial version today. It's annoying how it starts doing stuff that I didn't ask and I had to turn off a lot of settings. Also the "Most Fragemented Files" list is buggy, it does not seem to always update. If I'm going to defrag I want to know what's fragmented first. So far I don't love this version.

  5. 1 out of 5 stars
    smokingbeagle

    Reviewing 12.0.0.285 (Aug 17, 2011)

    BSOD.
    : ((

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