This shows on the left the window it uses during the Defrag and Optimizing job, and on the right, the report of what it found and what it did about it. Better than this, you can't hardly get. So give this one a try, for sure.... you'll like it.
And, if you're running Windows 8 Pro, like I am here, and you want to use the Magnifier to enlarge something on the screen, there are two keyboard shortcuts for it, that you may find handy:-
Windows Key + Numeric Keyboard's "+" = Enlarge
Windows Key + Numeric Keyboard's "-" = Restore to normal
For a whole list of shortcuts, try these ones, and maybe bookmark them.
Please Note:
I tried the Magnifier not because there's any problem with my new $900 eye glasses, but because I wanted to see if the magnifier could decently enlarge the
800 x 600 images that I'm now limited to on here, having used up my complimentary free one-gig allowance for larger photos, such as those full resolution screenshots I had formerly been posting.
It pains me deeply to report that this Magnifier feature operates much like the digital zoom on our digital cameras, and even though it makes things bigger, it doesn't make them sharper or even average-looking, because what it's doing is
taking that 800 x 600 pixel image and spreading those original pixels apart, and then filling in the gaps between them with other pixels which are an average of the differences between those original adjacent pixels. So the new larger image
is both fainter and less distinct. In the case of a photo, it has a lot more 'noise' in it, and noise reduction programs like Neat Image can't improve that very much, because it's simply "built that way". And that, Dear Reader, is why none
of us astute shutterbugs will touch digital zoom with a ten foot pole, and neither should you. It makes a nice picture look like hell. Whoever invented it meant it only for use while photographing mothers-in-law. Trust me - would I lie to you?
Please Note:
I tried the Magnifier not because there's any problem with my new $900 eye glasses, but because I wanted to see if the magnifier could decently enlarge the
800 x 600 images that I'm now limited to on here, having used up my complimentary free one-gig allowance for larger photos, such as those full resolution screenshots I had formerly been posting.
It pains me deeply to report that this Magnifier feature operates much like the digital zoom on our digital cameras, and even though it makes things bigger, it doesn't make them sharper or even average-looking, because what it's doing is
taking that 800 x 600 pixel image and spreading those original pixels apart, and then filling in the gaps between them with other pixels which are an average of the differences between those original adjacent pixels. So the new larger image
is both fainter and less distinct. In the case of a photo, it has a lot more 'noise' in it, and noise reduction programs like Neat Image can't improve that very much, because it's simply "built that way". And that, Dear Reader, is why none
of us astute shutterbugs will touch digital zoom with a ten foot pole, and neither should you. It makes a nice picture look like hell. Whoever invented it meant it only for use while photographing mothers-in-law. Trust me - would I lie to you?
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