I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a prolonged
time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk
Defragmenter.

Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to do a
far better (and faster) job then the native Defragmenter, I would like to
turn DfrgNtfs.exe off so that it no longer runs when the system is idle.

The thing is, I can’t find any option in Vista (Ultimate) to do that. I
guess there must be some preset schedule in one of the task management
routines, but I sure can’t find it. Perhaps someone here can point me in the
right direction.

All help and advice would be much appreciated.

"akita" wrote
>I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a prolonged
> time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk
> Defragmenter.
>
> Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to do a
> far better (and faster) job then the native Defragmenter, I would like to
> turn DfrgNtfs.exe off so that it no longer runs when the system is idle.
>
> The thing is, I can’t find any option in Vista (Ultimate) to do that. I
> guess there must be some preset schedule in one of the task management
> routines, but I sure can’t find it. Perhaps someone here can point me in
> the
> right direction.

You've posted this to several newsgroups. If you need to post to more than
one newsgroup please crosspost, sending one message to all groups at the
same time, rather than multiposting, which is sending separate messages to
each group. Multiposting is counterproductive and leads to duplication of
effort. In this case this really isn't a hardware device issue.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Rok: Ta, but that's unhelpful ...

"Rock" wrote:

> "akita" wrote
> >I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a prolonged
> > time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk
> > Defragmenter.
> >
> > Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to do a
> > far better (and faster) job then the native Defragmenter, I would like to
> > turn DfrgNtfs.exe off so that it no longer runs when the system is idle.
> >
> > The thing is, I can’t find any option in Vista (Ultimate) to do that. I
> > guess there must be some preset schedule in one of the task management
> > routines, but I sure can’t find it. Perhaps someone here can point me in
> > the
> > right direction.
>
> You've posted this to several newsgroups. If you need to post to more than
> one newsgroup please crosspost, sending one message to all groups at the
> same time, rather than multiposting, which is sending separate messages to
> each group. Multiposting is counterproductive and leads to duplication of
> effort. In this case this really isn't a hardware device issue.
>
> --
> Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]
>
>

"akita" wrote
> Rok: Ta, but that's unhelpful ...
>
> "Rock" wrote:
>
>> "akita" wrote
>> >I recently noticed that whenever my laptop is an idle mode for a
>> >prolonged
>> > time, DfrgNtfs.exe comes in. I understand that this Vista’s native Disk
>> > Defragmenter.
>> >
>> > Since I am using Raxco’s Disk Defragmentation Utility, which seems to
>> > do a
>> > far better (and faster) job then the native Defragmenter, I would like
>> > to
>> > turn DfrgNtfs.exe off so that it no longer runs when the system is
>> > idle.
>> >
>> > The thing is, I can’t find any option in Vista (Ultimate) to do that. I
>> > guess there must be some preset schedule in one of the task management
>> > routines, but I sure can’t find it. Perhaps someone here can point me
>> > in
>> > the
>> > right direction.
>>
>> You've posted this to several newsgroups. If you need to post to more
>> than
>> one newsgroup please crosspost, sending one message to all groups at the
>> same time, rather than multiposting, which is sending separate messages
>> to
>> each group. Multiposting is counterproductive and leads to duplication
>> of
>> effort. In this case this really isn't a hardware device issue.

Maybe you haven't gotten around to all the newsgroups you posted to, eh?
;-)

Which points out one of the many reasons one should avoid Multiposting.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]