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    PerfectDisk is Perfect Crap

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by angelicvoices, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. angelicvoices

    angelicvoices Notebook Deity

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    I know this is a well respected program but I have had nothing but problems with it. The first time I tried to defrag with it my system files were so corrupted that Windows could not recover itself and I had to do a restore. I uninstalled it at the time. Stupidly, after reading many other people's positive reactions, I decided to give it another chance. I installed it again only to discover my free trial had run out. Oh well I thought.. and I unstalled. However, this is not the end. Whenever I would boot windows I get a blue screen with a PDBoot.exe error cannot be found. Well this is a PerfectDisk application.. so great I think it didn't uninstall itself properly. I redownload the program, reinstall, and reboot and yep no more error at startup. I uninstall the program and restart.. ERROR IS BACK. Why will this program not take itself off my computer properly?? Can someone please help me clean up my computer from this crap? Thank you.
     
    angelicvoices, Apr 21, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Try Revo uninstaller and/or using CCleaner to clean the registry
     
    flipfire, Apr 21, 2008
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  3. angelicvoices

    angelicvoices Notebook Deity

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    flipfire - good suggestion about the registry. Instead of using ccleaner I just did a search in regedit and deleted three keys that PerfectDisk left behind. The error is gone. Ridiculous that it takes this kind of measure.. but at least my computer is free of it.
     
    angelicvoices, Apr 22, 2008
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    facadegeniality Notebook Consultant

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    facadegeniality, May 22, 2008
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    Carrot Muncher Notebook Evangelist

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    Bah thats nothing try unistalling norton system works 2003.
     
    Carrot Muncher, May 22, 2008
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    roomservice Newbie

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    Pretty sure perfect disc crashed my computer as well. I tried ashampoo defrager and that made a mess of things as well. I now use auslogics disc defrag, it works very nicely.
     
    roomservice, May 22, 2008
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    It certainly reads as if you are uninstalling it while it is still active. That could cause problems with any program.

    BTW, PerfectDisk 2008 works, well, perfectly, on my PC ;)
     
    AKAJohnDoe, May 22, 2008
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  8. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    auslogics doesnt do a good enough job. not thorough enough.
     
    McGrady, May 22, 2008
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  9. Tusin

    Tusin Notebook Evangelist

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    Man I think auslogics is a bunch of ninja pirates on a seaship to dumbass vile.

    I tried their Defrag program, defraged my HD, in a really fast ammount of time. A little to fast.... So I tried O&O and it still said my HD was 18% fragmented.
     
    Tusin, May 22, 2008
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    AKAJohnDoe Mime with Tourette's

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    Two different defragmentation algorithms would most likely see each other's results as fragmented.
     
    AKAJohnDoe, May 22, 2008
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    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    Perfect disk was perfect crap for me too, rendered my Vista install useless a few months ago.
    So I ran his ass off my computer ASAP.
     
    eleron911, May 22, 2008
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    jd1010 Notebook Evangelist

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    It worked real well for me....but it's strange that people are having problems with it. Isn't PerfectDisk the only other defrag program which is certified my Microsoft?
     
    jd1010, May 22, 2008
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