perfectdisk

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 08:57:44

I use perfectdisk for defragging but noticed lately that its running PDAgent at every stert up and logging what its finding, I dont have any schedules set so why is this agent running and how do I stop it again

Simon · Jul 05, 2009, 10:01:12

I know Rik uses it, and he'll be back on Monday, but I think it's probably just monitoring the drives, so it can defrag as it goes.

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 10:35:18

well I deleted the log now Simon but all it showed was entries every day didnt seem to be doing anything. I dont have it set to auto defrag and just do it manually whenever

Glenn · Jul 05, 2009, 10:56:03

Can it be turned off in the 'services'?

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 11:54:58

was set as 'started' and 'automatic'. so if I change it to Stop the service will it still start as needed or not

Lance · Jul 05, 2009, 12:00:18

If you change it to manual then it will only start when it is needed.

Ray · Jul 05, 2009, 12:05:31

Quote from: Baz on Jul 05, 2009, 11:54:58
was set as 'started' and 'automatic'. so if I change it to Stop the service will it still start as needed or not

Baz, have you changed the startup type in the properties? if it's still set to 'automatic' the service will start again next time you reboot your PC, you need to set it to either 'manual' then it will start when needed, or to 'disabled' in which case it will never start.

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 12:45:36

strange this one. It was set as 'started' in the status so I changed it to 'stop'. Startup type was left at 'automatic'. just looked again and the status is back on as 'started' and there is an entry in the log again. no reboot was done.

it looks as if it starts every time I open Perfectdisk, is that right?

Simon · Jul 05, 2009, 12:50:17

ActiveSync for phones does that too. Quite annoying. You can remove start up entries with CCleaner, and there's also a useful app called TweaK All 3, which I use.

Ray · Jul 05, 2009, 12:53:15

Quote from: Baz on Jul 05, 2009, 12:45:36
strange this one. It was set as 'started' in the status so I changed it to 'stop'. Startup type was left at 'automatic'. just looked again and the status is back on as 'started' and there is an entry in the log again. no reboot was done.

it looks as if it starts every time I open Perfectdisk, is that right?

Looks like it, Baz, I've just tried disabling it and PD throws up a couple of error messages and won't run, looks like it's got to be enabled and does starts up when you open PD.

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 16:27:10

so what is classed as a manual start if you change it to that in services.I thought it was just to do with the scheduling part of PD.

its reset itself to 'started' again

oh yeah see what you mean Ray just tried the same and it gave an error message.stupid

Ray · Jul 05, 2009, 17:01:09

This explains it in a bit more detail, Baz.

Baz · Jul 05, 2009, 17:17:01

thanks Ray.looks like it needs to be on then. I use version 8 but it seems to be similar to what it states in that piece you linked to.

Ray · Jul 05, 2009, 17:25:25

Quote from: Baz on Jul 05, 2009, 17:17:01
thanks Ray.looks like it needs to be on then. I use version 8 but it seems to be similar to what it states in that piece you linked to.

It does look that way, Baz, I've not encountered your problem though, because I run it in the fully automatic mode so it just does it's thing and I don't even notice when it's running.