Schedule Defrag

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I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the
application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me out
here.

Thanks for looking at my problem
 
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Skip Bisconer said:
I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to
find the
application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some
one help
me out here.

Thanks for looking at my problem
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Keep in mind that you can only schedule the command line
version, defrag.exe. You won't be able to schedule the GUI
version, dfrag.msc.

That said, defrag.exe should be located in your
C:\Windows\System32 folder. If it's not present, you can
restore it from your XP installation CD.

Put the installation disk in your CD drive.
Go to Start -> Run and enter cmd.exe in the Open box.
Click OK.
In the Command prompt window, type the following command and
hit the enter key.

expand D:\i386\defrag.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\defrag.exe

Note: The above command assumes that your CD drive is D.
Substitute the correct drive letter if it's not. Also, there is
a space after expand and defrag.ex_.

Here are a couple of articles with more info.

How to Automate Disk Defragmenter Using Task Scheduler Tool in
Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555098

Schedule a Task to Defragment Drives
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/gehrke1.mspx

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Skip Bisconer said:
I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the
application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me
out
here.

Thanks for looking at my problem
Click to expand...

Make a simple batch file to handle the defraging of your drives. Defrag.exe
must be installed for this to work.

This is my batch file created with Notepad (must be a text file): defrag.bat

defrag /f C:
defrag /f D:
defrag /f E:
End

Then create a Scheduled task pointing to the defrag batch file that you
wrote to handle the defrag.
 
Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you go
to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it
will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point in
time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is
necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag more
than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful.
Kaja
 
Kaja said:
Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you
go
to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it
will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point
in
time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is
necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag
more
than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful.
Kaja
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I have found that if it actually does a defrag under the situation that you
are talking about, it does a very poor job of it. I really have my doubts
about Windows making intelligent decisions concerning defragging a drive
because my wife's computer hadn't been manually defragged and it was getting
slower and slower. I ran defrag manually after checking the drive for errors
and not finding any. It took 6 hours to defrag the machine and it ran just
beautifully after.
 
Why on earth would it be a bad thing??
Kaja said:
Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you
go
to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it
will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point
in
time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is
necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag
more
than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful.
Kaja
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