Superfetch and Diskeeper 2008 Automatic Defrag

[drstanleyd2san]

Will having Diskeeper 2008 Automatic Defrag on along with Vista's Superfetch have any adverse affects on performance? Should I disable one? If so, which one? Thanks!

 

[rezolution]

FWIW, I am using Diskeeper 2008 on Vista Home Premium. I haven't turned off either the Diskeeper automatic defrag, or the vista superfetch, and there are no adverse effects whatsoever. Diskeeper works just fine (it was designed to work transparently in the background), and the system is always very responsive.

Probably you'll get a more reliable answer if you mail Diskeeper support or ask the question on their blog.

 

[drstanleyd2san]

Thanks. I was just worried that there would be conflict in defragging methods and that having both running would put unnecessary stress on the hard drive.

 

[notherdude]

Vista already does auto defragging, it's built in, maybe not as well as Diskeeper, but it sounds like you are just replacing one defrag with another so I doubt seriously it would increase HD activity much if any.

Not even sure Superfetch would have that much HD activity either, it's just putting stuff into RAM. Maybe the indexing service would, unless I am missing something here.