New Machine? Nope, Just a Defrag

I run Windows Server 2008 Enterprise on my quad core development workstation to take advantage of the OS’ Hyper-V support. (More info on setting this up at http://www.win2008workstation.com/)

Anyway, Derek at Diskeeper corporation sent along an MVP freebie preview of Diskeeper 2010 so I thought I’d run a defrag overnight. This morning, it feels like I have a new machine! I know this sounds like a commercial, but I hadn’t realized how badly my system’s performance had been deteriorating over the last few months since I repaved the drive. I won’t go into all the marketing terms surrounding this technology. Suffice to say that this product really worked for me.

Derek also sent along a copy of Diskeeper’s performance optimizer for virtual environments. I’ll report back once I give it a whirl.

BTW, I sure wish Microsoft would get on the ball and offer a workstation SKU of Windows Server 2008 R2 for developers. Right now, there are messy technical and licensing issues when you want to install consumer products on what is (technically) a server OS.  Selling a relabelled version of Windows Server 2008 R2 as “Windows 7 Hyper-V Developer Workstation Edition” would solve most of them.

Ken