DiskMax 3.1

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

koshyjohn said:

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...

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

Go India Go. Tumhe aise programmers ki bahut jarurat hai

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

good work

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 *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?

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.

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.

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.

@ koshyjohn - Thanks mate. Thats a good piece of software. Announced your app in here :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1051059&postcount=379
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25901&page=13

It's a thread dedicated to useful freeware softwares :
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25901

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.

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:
*koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/dm400demo.png

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!!!!

*koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/dm400demo1.png

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

Download the release candidate (minus documentation) at:
*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.

getting error on first run
*i43.tinypic.com/2dkcqhw.jpg

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.

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.

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.

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

sekhar_xxx said:

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.

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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
(*koshyjohnuk.googlepages.com/DiskMax3.exe)
DiskMax.exe (version 4) for Windows Vista/2008/7
(*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.

koshyjohn said:

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

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

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.

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

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

comp addict- refer to the first post

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

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

Please.......

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

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.

dr_jimit said:

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

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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.

sekhar_xxx; said:

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

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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.

Count Dracula; said:

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.

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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!

Will it work in windows 7?

Indyan said:

Will it work in windows 7?

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Absolutely. It has been tested on Windows 7 beta. DiskMax will identify Windows 7 as Windows Vista because Win7 will start identifying itself as Win7 only when it hits RTM.

You will need to start DiskMax with administrative privileges if you need to perform all activities like clearing event logs, scanning other user accounts, defragmentation, etc.

I am not keen to make DiskMax refuse to run without administrative privileges so the duty of elevating it is left to the user. (Right-click and select 'Run as administrator' for those who don't know - all this will be in the documentation I am compiling)

Installed it and gave it a whirl.
Here are a couple of screenshots :

# Detects Win7 as Win Vista.
*img11.imageshack.us/img11/8493/diskm2rw6.jpg
# Recovered about 15gb.
*img24.imageshack.us/img24/1391/diskm4.png



Suggetion : #Add support for other popular browsers like Opera, Safari and Chrome.

# I would have the minimize and quit buttons at top right, in order to be consistent with windows ui.

good work..s/w looks cool..let me try...

@Indyan
15GB? That's amazing. Your Windows installation must be pretty old to have accumulated that much junk... Or you are just a really heavy user..

I agree with your comments regarding the minimize and quit buttons but there is a programmatic reason why it had to be done this way... I intend to try to return to the Windows ui norm but I am pushing that to a release further down the line...

Thanks for your comments and screenshots!

I installed the beta build in 2nd or 3rd week of Januaury. And I had used Tuneup Disk Cleaner a couple of weeks back. So it's certainly impressive.

OT: Indyan dude .. check ur inbox ...


Edit : Thanx buddy for the prompt action.

@Indyan

How old is that win7? On a freshly installed win7 build 7022, DM shaves off 570 MB or so.

I already started the install date.^
Anyway, its so huge because of the large number of softwares I have installed.

is there no way to use this software without registering over the internet?i have a few friends who wanted to use it but they do not have an internet connection.

DiskMax 3
"Registration" is actually a request placed for a web counter (like the one on webpages) which will increment on each request so that I know how many installs have taken place. It will try to connect for about 3 times and then time out if unsuccessful. DiskMax will then start running as usual. However, unless registered, the user will have to go through this whole cycle every time DiskMax is started. (The same repeats for an update check)

I request that, if possible, the user "registers" DiskMax so that looking at the popularity of my various applications, I can decide which one I can allocate more of my time to for improvement.

DiskMax 4
This version is much more relaxed about the whole thing. There is an update check about 3 days after install so that users can evaluate the program before allowing it to connect to the internet to check for updates. If the user decides not to check for updates, there is a penalty waiting period of 15 seconds before DiskMax 4 starts up and works as usual. Please note that, as stated in the EULA, no information of any sort is ever transmitted onto the internet at any time.

I have included an professional help file in the latest copy of DiskMax 4 available. Those of you who are using it, please tell me if the help file explains everything about DiskMax clearly.

DiskMax 4 is now compatible with Windows XP/2003.
DiskMax 3 has been discontinued.

Please read the first post for more...