Daily Defragmentation Eliminates Waits for Anti-Virus Scans.

BURBANK, Calif. -- Executive Software announced that Fortune 500 Company, Icon Computing, improved the speed of virus scanning by over 400% by defragmenting with Diskeeper(R). Daily defragmentation is critical to speed up important security tasks such as running anti-virus scans.

According to Phil Pinto, Network Administrator at Icon Computing, "Daily defragmentation is the single most important thing that I can do -- short of virus prevention -- to keep my system running at top performance. Performance of a machine deteriorates over time. Today, with the size of some files, it does not take long for the NTFS Files System to become significantly fragmented. Scanning this computer for viruses using eScan Virus Control would take over 3 hours to scan about 220,000 files -- before my drive was defragmented with Diskeeper -- now it takes less than 40 minutes. I have a large number of services that start with windows, and disk defragmentation is critical to keep the system running smoothly."

Studies done by Executive Software compared the performance of fragmented and defragmented drives when virus scans were run. In each case virus scan times were considerably faster when the drive was defragmented.

Diskeeper 9.0 Editions are available for sale and can be purchased through your favorite reseller. Diskeeper trialware downloads are also available at http://www.executive.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?pr=dkpr.

About Executive Software

Founded in 1981, Executive Software specializes in the number one automatic defragmenter(TM) for corporations globally. The company is the world leader in system performance/defragmentation software for Windows NT(R), Windows(R) 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and OpenVMS(R) operating systems, producing more than 98 percent of the network defragmenters used in the corporate market. Executive Software is located at 7590 North Glenoaks Blvd., Burbank, CA 91504. Phone numbers are 800-829-6468 and 818-771-1600. A variety of system management tools, trialware and free utilities are available at www.executive.com. Executive Software's European headquarters can be reached at www.execsoft.co.uk or by calling [phone].

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