Diskeeper

Diskeeper is software for automatic defragmenting hard disks. It was developed for the VAX mini-computer with VMS operating systems to hit the market later for Microsoft Windows. It is a product of Diskeeper Corporation ( formerly Executive Software ).

The integrated in the operating systems Windows 2000, 2003 and XP defrag tool Defrag is a stripped down version of " Diskeeper " that does not offer all the features of the full version.

The issued in November 2009 version Diskeeper 2010 is not only defragment, but actively reduce the occurrence of fragmentation.

In 2000, the Federal Office for Security in Information Technology (BSI ) to examine whether Diskeeper could be used for data espionage because the Diskeeper Corporation has close contacts with the Scientology sect. After Microsoft had published a guide to allow the use of Windows 2000 without Diskeeper, the review of the source code from the Federal Ministry of the Interior was deemed no longer necessary.