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startmeup
ok, I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check
the progress?
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Gordon
startmeup said:ok, I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check
the progress?
Why? Vista defrags in the background while your machine is idle.
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Richard in AZ
startmeup said:ok, I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check
the progress?
If you need to entertain yourself, turn on your screen saver.
Watching the boxes, or lines, in defrag is not a Vista option.
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Steve Thackery
I need to see the progress of disk defrag like in xp where can I check
You don't really "need" to.
It's a design decision to remove the graphical display, because for one
thing it is meaningless, and for another, there aren't enough pixels on your
screen to correctly display the disk sectors and files. So any display
would be a "fudge" to look pretty, rather than a meaningful indication of
fragmentation.
Vista is designed to defrag invisibly, and it works perfectly well. It is
kicked off automatically once per week, and runs only when your computer is
idle (at the lowest processor and I/O priorities) so it can't impact on your
usage of the PC.
And it works fine. Honestly, you really can just forget about
fragmentation.
If you don't believe me, just use your computer normally for a few weeks.
Then run 'defrag c: /a' and see if there is any significant fragmentation.
I bet there won't be.
SteveT
the progress?
You don't really "need" to.
It's a design decision to remove the graphical display, because for one
thing it is meaningless, and for another, there aren't enough pixels on your
screen to correctly display the disk sectors and files. So any display
would be a "fudge" to look pretty, rather than a meaningful indication of
fragmentation.
Vista is designed to defrag invisibly, and it works perfectly well. It is
kicked off automatically once per week, and runs only when your computer is
idle (at the lowest processor and I/O priorities) so it can't impact on your
usage of the PC.
And it works fine. Honestly, you really can just forget about
fragmentation.
If you don't believe me, just use your computer normally for a few weeks.
Then run 'defrag c: /a' and see if there is any significant fragmentation.
I bet there won't be.
SteveT
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celisewood
Richard in AZ said:If you need to entertain yourself, turn on your screen saver.
Watching the boxes, or lines, in defrag is not a Vista option.
Ya well...what if you're not trying to entertain yourself but would like to
see if ANOTHER microsoft product that does the defrag is lying to me. It's
always saying it cannot defrag and I opted to run it every day for the past
month to see if it ever does. I'd really like to SEE if it's crazy or if it's
really not defraging.