B
+Bob+
Looks like a bunch of excuses to me.
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Looks like a bunch of excuses to me.
B
+Bob+
Not unless you use a third party defrag solution.
Lame... but removing useable features and giving us a blind interface
is soooo Vista.
However, you can get verbose text output of the analysis and more
defrag options using the command prompt.
Open the command prompt as an administrator, then type without quotes
"*defrag ?*"
That will give you a list of options.
For eg "defrag C: -a -v " gives verbose analysis for the C drive.
Trying that, thanks.
Do note that freeware third party utilities usually lack some of the
useful features of commercial defragmenters (and some of Vista's as
well!) such as online MFT defrag, automated operation, VSS compatibility
etc. Choose carefully.
What's VSS compatibility?
B
+Bob+
Use Auslogics Defrag and save yourself time and hassle. I've never even
had Vista successfully finish a defrag...I stop it after several hours.
Auslogics finishes in about 30 minutes for me AND lets you see the
progress. I can't recall right now if it shows any percentages.
Checking it out, thanks.
J
Josh
Plenty of tests show that the third party defraggers and the Vista
defragmentor are about as effective as each other. Frankly I don't care how
long it takes because with vista it really isn't neccessary to manually
defrag, it does it in the background and that's the point.
Rather then purchasing diskeeper... why not just adjust your system
maintenance procedure? if its no longer necessary to defrag manually then
why bother? Set it to auto defrag every night if you feel its that
necessary...
defragmentor are about as effective as each other. Frankly I don't care how
long it takes because with vista it really isn't neccessary to manually
defrag, it does it in the background and that's the point.
Rather then purchasing diskeeper... why not just adjust your system
maintenance procedure? if its no longer necessary to defrag manually then
why bother? Set it to auto defrag every night if you feel its that
necessary...
B
+Bob+
Plenty of tests show that the third party defraggers and the Vista
defragmentor are about as effective as each other. Frankly I don't care how
long it takes because with vista it really isn't neccessary to manually
defrag, it does it in the background and that's the point.
Rather then purchasing diskeeper... why not just adjust your system
maintenance procedure? if its no longer necessary to defrag manually then
why bother? Set it to auto defrag every night if you feel its that
necessary...
Personally, I don't want automatic procedures running the background
when I am potentially working. I prefer to defrag manually when I know
I will not need the machine for a stated period of time.
Regardless though, I like to know the fragmentation % as well as the
progress through the process. The graphical display was also useful
for a quick look at fragmentation issues.
Since the command line can still give us this information, it's
obvious that this is another Vista "feature" - where MS has removed a
previously valuable feature in the interest of dumbing down something
that worked fine already.
Looks like MS's design group is where the really dumbing down has
taken place - amongst the staff, which is really dumb.
B
+Bob+
'Shadow copies may be lost when you defragment a volume'
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312067)
'The Diskeeper Blog: DK'08 Feature Spotlight - VSS Compatibility Mode'
(http://www.diskeeperblog.com/archives/2007/12/dk08_feature_sp.html)
Best regards
Thanks
P
Poutnik
Another idiot with an ill informed opinion.
Alias
Well, i call this for myself "Advanced Linux user syndrome".
Linux and Unix are great OSs,
in some aspects much better than Windows.
But especially Linux has serious sideeffects.