Defrag, the annoying Vista "feature"

[HAL]

So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with
many files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.

Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is
"idle". But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver
locks your computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound
of hard-drive reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable
that "feature" of Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.

Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?

 

[mikeyhsd]

give Auslogics Disk Defrag a look see.
works on 32 and 64 bit vista.
is FREE and shows those neat little moving boxes.



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So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with
many files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.

Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is
"idle". But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver
locks your computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound
of hard-drive reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable
that "feature" of Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.

Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?

 

[Lang Murphy]

So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with many
files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.

Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is "idle".
But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver locks your
computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound of hard-drive
reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable that "feature" of
Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.

Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?

-i switch explanation here:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/archive/2006/10/19/a-quick-note-about-defrag-exe-parameters.aspx

Lang