mst software, a company based in Germany, has released at 08/18/2005 mst
Defrag 1.8.

mst Defrag product web page: http://www.mstsoftware.com/c_mst_defrag.aspx

mst Defrag is the world's first proactive defragmentation software. Working
completely in the background, mst Defrag efficiently defragments and
optimizes hard drives without causing interruptions or slow-downs, and
without requiring any scheduling whatsoever.

Quite simply, once you install mst Defrag, your disks will be automatically
optimized for maximum performance at all times, rather than only after a
manual or scheduled defragmentation has been performed, as is the case with
all other defragmentation utilities. Because of this, mst Defrag is the only
solution that prevents disk-based performance bottlenecks from ever
occurring.

Using mst Defrag, you can also defragment the drives of distant network
computers as easily as those of local drives. Specialized client software
for workstations and servers is available.

The new features of mst Defrag version 1.8 are as follows:
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- multiple Clusterviews
- shading Clusters (Windows XP look)
- IOGuard (better control of IO usage)
- optional error testing (ChkDsk) before defragmentation
- Power Events (for Notebooks and Server USVs)
- System Tray Icon

Costs:
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mst Defrag Home Edition license USD $15.90
mst Defrag Workstation Edition license USD $29.90
mst Defrag Server Edition license USD $89.90

Volume discount licenses are available through our volume license program.

Reviews of the press (excerpt):
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- Computerbild (11/2005)
Price-Performance Winner mst Defrag.
"A significant acceleration was achieved with the price-performance winner,
mst Defrag Home Edition. For 9 Euro, a bargain, the software makes the
computer 25 percent faster."

- PC Praxis
The German magazine, PC Praxis, reviewed mst Defrag for its Nov. 2004 issue
and has chosen it for recommendation.

"mst Defrag performs defragmentation in the background and prevents
fragmentation even before it occurs. This foreseeing method is called
'pro-active' ". Furthermore, "... it accelerated data access on our
computers by 10-20% ... this is a very good result".

- KickstartNews
KickstartNews has thoroughly tested mst Defrag and judged it to be "quite a
gem", outstanding compared to other defragmentation software. "mst Defrag
is an important performance enhancement tool that you would
expect to be included in the OS".

About mst software:
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The company mst software, founded by Martin Stiemerling in Berlin/Germany,
innovates software solutions for the Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003 operating systems. mst software specializes in software
solutions that enhance the performance and security of these Windows
platforms.

mst software web page:
http://www.mstsoftware.com

Other software products available from mst software:
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- mst TotalAccess Disk
- mst Password
- mst RealDelete
- mst MD5 (freeware)
- mst IsUsedBy (freeware)

Press contact:
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Susan Hollmann
(mailto:press@mstsoftware.com)

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mst software - Windows Tools

Birkenhof 56,
16767 Leegebruch, Germany
Tel: +49 (3304) 20 66 61
URL: http://www.mstsoftware.com

This is very similar to Diskeeper, I wonder how the two compare. Anyone?