Look beneath the surface, clean your PC, shrink your drive

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 by Joe Abusamra
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Many PerfectDisk users install the program, set up an automated schedule or auto defrag to run in the background, and almost never think about defrag again. They've made their slow PC fix and achieved faster PC speed, effortlessly.

And then there are those, of which there are many, that like to watch the map viewer, with all it's color and information about file location and drive layout. And then there's another set of users - those who want to dig deeper into the map -- to get an understanding of what files are where on their drives.

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But there's also another reason to look into the colorful blocks, even beyond fixing slow PC problems. For Vista and Windows 7 users, Windows ability to shrink drives can be very powerful. But it doesn't always work according to plan, according to the Microsoft text book.
In order to shrink a drive, it's very likely that you'll need to clean your PC, either through duplicate file removal or the removal of other unnecessary files. And then, with PerfectDisk's free space consolidation, you're in good shape to shrink the drive.

But you can't easily remove those files to shrink your drive if you don't know where they are. The perfect solution would be to click on a block to gain a better understanding of the files and their usage. Then again, you may want to click on the bit map to see what's where.

A new block viewer to dig deeper....and beyond the colors.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it's an 11. Coming March 2010.

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