Defrag of Hard Drive without admin privileges

[Guest]

I am trying to defrag my hard drive without admin privileges. Is there any
way either registry or policies that can give the local user the privileges
to defrag their hard drive on their own? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 

[Sundaram Narayanan[MSFT]]

No you cannot do that. I think the disk defragment snap-in checks on load to
make sure the user is a administrator. Theoretically you may be able to get
other tools to do this if you were willing to delegate close to full control
on the volume to every user. But allowing people unregulated write to some
volumes (C: specifically) is equivalent to making them admins (at least the
malicious ones can manage to become System by writing directly to the file
system)

 

[dc]

When you get ready to run Defrag from less than Administrators, you can depress the
"shift" key and right mouse the defrag shortcut for a "runas" choice from the
contextual menu. Type in the password of the administrator and you can run defrag
without logging off.

hope this helps...

don


I am trying to defrag my hard drive without admin privileges. Is there any
way either registry or policies that can give the local user the privileges
to defrag their hard drive on their own? Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 

[Michael D. Ober]

Spend the $50 per machine and purchase an on-line defragger such as
Diskeeper or Perfect Disk. I have heard, but don't know for sure, that XP
Pro doesn't have this problem.

Mike Ober.