TSGL: Diskeeper lite

[H Davis]

Bob,

I couldn't find any references to Diskeeper in the LangaList issues I've 
kept, but I don't keep them all, or in the Windows Secrets Newsletter 
where Langa has moved in early 2007.

Maybe some of this info will be helpful.

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 From Gizmo Richards Support Alert Newsletter, Premium, Jan 18 2006

2.3 The Best Free Disk De-fragmenter

My top recommendation here has long been Diskeeper Lite V7, the last 
free version of the commercial Diskeeper program now at V10. Or so it 
seemed until I received this email from subscriber Vashek Weis. "Gizmo I 
found Diskeeper Lite 8 on a CD accompanying a new Intel motherboard and 
later when I checked for updates on the Intel site I found Diskeeper 
Lite 9! To get it you need to download the full version (89MB) of Intel 
Desktop Utilities. Once downloaded, run the exe to unzip its contents 
into a folder of your choice. In the directory tree created you will 
find these folders: .../3rdparty/Diskeeper/ and 
..../3rdpartyDiskeeper.64/. Works great and the new Performance tab is 
excellent. In the Readme_EN.txt and in the License Agreement I didn't 
find any rules prohibiting downloading and using this program (on a 
single computer), therefore I am assuming there aren't any. Please note 
that both on my desktop and on my laptop the installation failed unless 
I uninstalled previous version of Diskeeper Lite." Great find Vashek and 
thanks for writing. Windows 2000 and later, 89MB
http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/software/idu /

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 From Gizmo Richards Support Alert Newsletter, Premium, Feb 22, 2007

5.1 How to Remove the Nag Screen from Diskeeper Lite

Diskeeper Lite is a great freebie but the nag screen is extremely 
intrusive. So intrusive that it goaded subscriber "Koolance" to find a 
way of removing it. Here's the way he did it:

"1. First make sure you have set file extensions to be displayed in 
Windows Explorer. To do this open Explorer and go to Folder Options / 
View tab and uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types".

2. Open Notepad and without writing anything select File / Save as and 
then name the file "ShowHtml.exe". In other words create a blank file of 
that name.

3. Open the directory you installed Diskeeper Lite in. Normally this is 
C:\Program Files\Executive Software\DiskeeperLite. Copy and Paste the 
file you just created into this folder. Select YES when ask if you want 
to replace the existing file.

That's it. No more nag screen! The buttons in Diskeeper Lite that bring 
up the "Nag Screen" will now do nothing.

If you want to, go back to Folder Options-->View tab and un-check "Hide 
extensions for known file types".

Another useful trick with Diskeeper Lite is to add automatic scheduling. 
This useful feature is available in the full version but not the Lite. I 
described how you could set up automatic scheduling in issue #138. You 
can read it here:
http://techsupportalert.com/issues/issue138.htm#Section_6.1

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I haven't used either of the items above.

HTH

H Davis

Ron Brunton wrote:
> I don't recall that Langa article, but I have had the paid version of
> Diskeeper for a number of years and versions. I like it a lot, it works with
> Vista and it wasn't all that expensive - the home version is around $50. I'm
> very satisfied with the purchase.
>
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Trio800_BonBon
> Sent: June-23-07 4:17 PM
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> Subject: TSGL: Diskeeper lite
>
> About 6 months ago, Fred Langa was discussing the free 
> version of diskeeper lite, but he also wrote about 
> legal free full version (I think it was Diskeeper 
> Version 7) being available in a 75mb download of 
> utilities from another company. I searched the langa 
> list archives and was not able to find that story. Does 
> anybody remember who offered that download, pr the URL 
> of the Langa story?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
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