Dfrgfat.exe .. How to disable

[NSN]

Please don't get frightened, this is not a SCSI question ,,,,,,,
I am running XP with SP2 on an Asus P4C800E-Deluxe. My drive is a
Maxtor SCSI 36 Gig running off an Adaptec 29160N PCI card.

If I leave my computer running without any input for more than 10
minutes I get much disk activity, By leaving Task Manager open and
observing the processes, I was able to trace this activity to the
launching of dfrgfat.exe.

I want to prevent dfrgfat,exe from running but cannot find out how it
is being launched. I tried running msconfig and services.msc but find
nothing that seems to relate to this problem. I suspect that something
is launching dfrg.msc which in turn is activating dfrgfat.exe.

In any event, I temporarily renamed all occurrences of dfrgfat.exe to
dfrgfat.old thus disabling it. This has stopped the unwanted disk
activity (defragmentation). However, I would like to solve the
problem in a proper manner, not by renaming a program.

Can anyone help??

Norm

 

[Gerry Cornell]

This thread from Google may be of interest:
http://snipurl.com/dxsk

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Thanks Gerry:

I tried. Typing defrag /REVERT got me a " /REVERT not recognized. I
looked in Tweak UI but could find no reverence to defragging.

Norm

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Norm,

/REVERT does not appear to be one of the switches for defrag.

defrag
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/defrag.mspx

One switch that they do not show there is -boot or /boot. As in defrag
c: -boot or defrag c: /boot. This forces boot optimization.

Looks like your hard drive is formatted FAT32 otherwise DFRGNTFS.EXE would
be running.

This is part of the Prefetching process. Prefetching is a good thing.

Optimizing Startup Times by Using Defragmentation Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_uutk.asp

Idle Task Scheduling: The ProcessIdleTask API
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/benchmark.mspx#EDAA

Hard Disks Do Not Turn Off After Your Computer Has Been Idle
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q313300

TweakUI
[+] General
Optimize hard disk when idle

Optimize hard disk when idle
[[This allows Windows to rearrange files on the hard disk when the computer
is not in use to improve performance. This is a system wide setting which
requires a restart for changes to take effect.]]

Why you'd want to disable Prefetcher is beyond me, but...

How to Disable the Prefetcher Component in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307498
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[NSN]

Wes:

Thanks for the great response. I will go through your reply thoroughly
during the day. Much info for me to digest.

THANKS !!!

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Here another extract from Google for you to look at:
http://snipurl.com/dy75


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Wes:

Thanks for the great response. I will go through your reply thoroughly
during the day. Much info for me to digest.

THANKS !!!

Norm,

/REVERT does not appear to be one of the switches for defrag.

defrag
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/defrag.mspx

One switch that they do not show there is -boot or /boot. As in
defrag
c: -boot or defrag c: /boot. This forces boot optimization.

Looks like your hard drive is formatted FAT32 otherwise DFRGNTFS.EXE
would
be running.

This is part of the Prefetching process. Prefetching is a good thing.

Optimizing Startup Times by Using Defragmentation Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...windows/xp/all/reskit/en-us/prkd_tro_uutk.asp

Idle Task Scheduling: The ProcessIdleTask API
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/sysperf/benchmark.mspx#EDAA

Hard Disks Do Not Turn Off After Your Computer Has Been Idle
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/Q313300

TweakUI
[+] General
? Optimize hard disk when idle

Optimize hard disk when idle
[[This allows Windows to rearrange files on the hard disk when the
computer
is not in use to improve performance. This is a system wide setting
which
requires a restart for changes to take effect.]]

Why you'd want to disable Prefetcher is beyond me, but...

How to Disable the Prefetcher Component in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307498