[access-uk] Re: diskeeper and jaws
- From: "Stephen Green" <stephen.tina@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:33:28 +0100
Oh, you may have me there - by the time I checked my drives with the Microsoft
defragmenter, I had already uninstalled diskeeper, so I have no idea how they
interact.
i wish I could think of a pithy comment about people who belittle the choices
others make, but I can't.
Steve Green
----- Original Message -----
From: Wendy Sharpe
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 11:53 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: diskeeper and jaws
Steve
Many thanks for that comprehensive explanation. I am reassured that I am not
the only one in the boat, and it is a pity that JAWS doesn't seem to get on
with Diskeeper very well.
I did try checking with Disk Defragmenter in the system tools menu, but it
seemed to open up Diskeeper as well and still wouldn't let me analyse.
I have also used JAWS cursor to explore the screen when Diskeeper is open,
but it is very cluttered with words and graphics all mixed up, and it is hard
to find checkboxes to click on.
Thanks again.
Wendy
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Stephen Green
Sent: 09 August 2007 23:08
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] diskeeper and jaws
Perhaps I should start by saying that my experience with diskeeper has been
exactly the same as Wendy with jaws 8 and win xp home. When I launch diskeeper
and highlight the drives to find if they are being defragmented automatically,
jaws goes into a right tizzy and announces quote enabled disabled disabled
disabled disabled disabled unquote.
From there it gets worse as when I ask it to analyze the drive, a message
appears after about ten seconds saying that the operation has failed.
To try and sort this out, I telephoned diskeeper's u.k. technical support,
but after half an hour of struggling, we decided to call it a day until my wife
came home from work and could tell me what was going on on the screen.
However, with jaws running she was totally unable to get any sort of feedback
from the program which would report via speech the status of the drives. The
only thing she was able to tell me was that there was a screen showing that the
clusters had in fact been defragmented completely with all the blue blocks on
one side of the screen and the white blocks on another.
Therefore my conclusion is that if you install diskeeper without deviating
from the default settings, it will install with automatic defragmentation
switched on and jaws users will have to trust that it is in fact working
properly. However, you can check that the drives are properly defragmented by
using Microsoft defragmenter in system tools to report their status.
That apart, I was amazed at how quickly diskeeper rearrange my c drive with
20 Gb of data and my d drive with 300 Gb of data, performing the task in the
time between installing it and when my wife came home 5 hours later.
Finally, I must admit that my computer is slightly quicker, but I'm wondering
if its really worth 25 pounds.
Steve Green
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