DiskMax 3.1

[koshyjohn]

Source: DiskMax

Due to popular demand, DiskMax 4 is now compatible with Windows XP/2003 in addition to Windows Vista/2008/7. XP users are requested to leave their comments here...

Special thanks go out to Digit forum members for promoting DiskMax on their blogs/sites! If you have reviewed DiskMax, please contact me so that I can link to you from my site. Please note that the location of DiskMax.exe has been changed to my paid website's server due to high demand causing random periods of unavailability. Kindly make the change at your site/blog...

Do you know why your computer no longer feels as fast as it did when you first got it? It's because of the accumulation of junk files and other data on your system coupled with inefficient layout of your files. So what can you do about it?

Download DiskMax and run it just once - the difference will be instantly noticeable. Your system will be peppier, applications will launch faster, files will open quicker, games will run better, and so on. Running DiskMax from time to time is recommended to keep your system in shape.

Even if you are an advanced user, DiskMax will be useful to you since it automates all the tasks required to keep your system clean and fast, leaving you to enjoy the whole new experience!

Download:
DiskMax (753KB) | DiskMax Help File (190KB)

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[ratedrsuperstar]

good work man.although i would prefer separate programs for these tasks.i.e.,Registry Mechanic,Ccleaner,Perfect Disk,Tune-Up utilities.

but since ur's is a freeware i'll definitely try it after my next windows install

[CadCrazy]

Originally Posted by koshyjohn

Full Disclosure: This program was created by me. It has accumulated close to 9000 installs to date. Softpedia added it yesterday of their own accord and informed me about it, and so...

Congo Buddy. Keep up your good work. Let me check

Go India Go. Tumhe aise programmers ki bahut jarurat hai

[azzu]

nice one man.Kinda Luv it
will supply 2 my frnds who dont hav the Net

[Faun]

good work

[koshyjohn]

Thanks for all the feedback!
Over 100 people installed it just today!

On a fresh Windows Vista install, with all updates installed, DiskMax was able to shave off 2494.83MB for me (yeah, that's 2GB! - and I'm very particular about having a clean system!).

Wait... It gets even better.. A 6 month old Windows Vista installation that a relative came to me with to tune up saw DiskMax cleaning up an amazing... 10GB of junk off it. And since the laptop had only 1GB of RAM, you should have seen the performance difference afterwards.

I'm not blowing my own trumpet - I just get satisfaction knowing that even the most non-technical user can now enjoy the best performance (you need proper registry cleaning utilities for the absolute best performance) without having to learn about the finer details.

Pass it on to friends/relatives who complain of slow systems and tell them to run it from time to time. They'll thank you for it.

423 installs in the last 24 hours and only so many people have an opinion to share?

Check out http://www.koshyjohn.com/software/neosearch.html if you liked this - it's even more popular with over 10,000 installs.

Do you think they merit bundling with the December digit mag?

[dr_jimit]

in my xp, it cleand >250MB at once.
I wold love to include an option to deselect temp Internet file cleaning, as i think it will decrease my "LIMITED" bandwidth.I prefer 1 GB catch even if it slows browsing on BSNL internet.

And ya it doesn't work without internet. so bad for such good program.
My friend is a PC assembler, he needs this on many pc offline.

[koshyjohn]

DiskMax 4.00 is currently under development:

1. Temp inet files will be made optional.
2. It actually works offline too, you just have to wait till it times-out. If someone truly did not have internet, then they shouldn't mind waiting ~45 seconds for the program to start running. DiskMax 4.00 *might* have an option for offline checks by making use of an activation/updation sequence on a machine with an internet connection.

New features include the ability to delete files in use (on restart; eg: index.dat files), far more options, almost 40% more user locations cleaned, support for Windows 7, ability to pause progress, optimization of file layout based on prefetch data gathered by Windows, etc.

Thank you for your feedback.

If there's anyone else who uses DiskMax here, and you have a feature request, please submit it at the earliest so that the required change maybe incorporated into the code.

[anandk]

Congrats ! Good to see such a program

I used it. I would prefer that the list to be cleaned be displayed first, instead of the program directly going ahead with doing the cleanup.

[topgear]

@ koshyjohn - Thanks mate. Thats a good piece of software. Announced your app in here :
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...&postcount=379
Useful Freewares...

It's a thread dedicated to useful freeware softwares :
Useful Freewares...

[amol48]

Good program. I just used it on my new lappy that runs Vista and it cleared 256 Mb of space. Good work! But I think it would be good if you could make the cleaning of Internet and temporary files optional as I didn't want to delete them.

[koshyjohn]

anandk,
List first would be a little hard to implement as my list keeps expanding and I want a good looking GUI. But I have included better documentation along with prompts to take in user choices at appropriate moments to make up for that.

topgear,
thanks for the publicity! I hope you are more than satisfied with the program.

amol48,
Your request has already been implemented in the next version (under dev).

jia,
yours is the kind of situation that this program was created for. how would you compare system performance before/after running DiskMax?

Here's a teaser shot of 4.00:

[mavihs]

will use d next version of ur prg!!!
cant use it nwo due 2 d optional thing not available but nice prg(usefull 4 ppl who dont know much about clearing old data)!!!!
& d new GUI looks good!!!!

[koshyjohn]

Version 4.00 Release Candidate is available for download....

Download the release candidate (minus documentation) at:
http://koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/DiskMax.exe

Please leave a reply if you like it or if you want to see any changes before I finalize it.

[axxo]

getting error on first run

[himadri_sm]

i used v. 4.0 but when it tries to clean the temporary internet files i get this error-
"Line -1:

Error:Exit code: 8.121 Data: Undeclared.

[koshyjohn]

That's certainly unexpected...
What operating system are you using? Which version of Internet Explorer is installed?

I'm assuming you are using XP because it runs fine on Vista and 7. I've made a minor modification to the program that should let you run it without encountering the error again but I still need to know the above details so that I can pinpoint the problem.

Thank you very much for your patience.

[himadri_sm]

the internet explorer version is 6.0.29..i haven't updated it as i only use firefox. i have windows xp sp3 installed.at the time of running the program no other application was running. neway, thanx & congrats for providing this.

[comp@ddict]

Excellent softie, thanks a ton, add another number to the downloads.

[koshyjohn]

Originally Posted by sekhar_xxx

the internet explorer version is 6.0.29..i haven't updated it as i only use firefox. i have windows xp sp3 installed.at the time of running the program no other application was running. neway, thanx & congrats for providing this.

DiskMax 4 seems to be ill-suited for Windows XP (some users reported flickering of the GUI -inherent XP limitation). I've decided to split the product line into two:

DiskMax3.exe for Windows XP/2003
(http://koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/DiskMax3.exe)
DiskMax.exe (version 4) for Windows Vista/2008/7
(http://koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/DiskMax.exe)

It really doesn't matter which version you download - if the program detects that it has not been matched with the right OS, it will guide you to download the correct one. And considering that it is quite small, it is hardly likely to test anyone's patience.

Thank you for your time sekhar. I'm sorry to have inconvenienced you.

[himadri_sm]

Originally Posted by koshyjohn

Thank you for your time sekhar. I'm sorry to have inconvenienced you.

no worries mate...you are doing a wonderful job..i am glad to be of help...best wishes to you!

[freshseasons]

WOW man what a program.It deleted and freed almost 3Gb worth of space on my harddrive.
I dont have words to thank for showing such a wonderful software.

[harryneopotter]

awesome man ... it freed up 4.5 GB space on my HDD ..... really great work ....

[comp@ddict]

Man your softie didn't work, there comes an error line and that's it, the software terminates!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[himadri_sm]

comp addict- refer to the first post

[comp@ddict]

Oh man, thnx, didn't read that part.

[dr_jimit]

Oh man....
Please make a version 3.3 for win XP sp3 that has option to deselect Temp Internet Files.....

Please.......

[himadri_sm]

is there no way to make diskmax 4 work in xp?

[Count Dracula]

Man cool you wrote it on your own.Tremendously cool.Will definately try when I have spare time,I'm loaded with work right now.

[koshyjohn]

Originally Posted by dr_jimit

Oh man....
Please make a version 3.3 for win XP sp3 that has option to deselect Temp Internet Files.....
Please.......

I will make a version 3.3 back porting portions of code from version 4. Actually version 4 was supposed to run on XP too but I got a few complaints about it flickering on XP and crashing (some in this thread). I haven't got a system with XP on it to test anymore (virtual machine is not good enough.. blech).

I am working on version 4 to completion now (documentation in progress). I will then update version 3 or maybe fix version 4 to work with XP.

Originally Posted by sekhar_xxx;

is there no way to make diskmax 4 work in xp?

There might be.. I'm currently just going to improve version 3 to include some features from 4. My list of priorities go like this: finish 4, improve 3, update my website, complete some other in-the-works applications (mem cleaner, etc), and then try to fix 4 to work with 3.

I might be able to fix the error that occurs when version 4 is run on XP but it will be hard to modify the GUI to draw well on XP - because unlike Vista, XP does not have GPU accelerated graphics - XP is just starting to look so so old.

Originally Posted by Count Dracula;

Man cool you wrote it on your own.Tremendously cool.Will definately try when I have spare time,I'm loaded with work right now.

Thank you! Just for the record, I did a clean install of Vista Ultimate, installed SP1, downloaded all updates and installed all my regular software, and, then ran DiskMax. I was expecting something along the lines of 1GB but it removed an immense 4.5GB. Thankfully, I have other members at this forum with similar claims (read above) so you don't have to take my word for it!