Defragmenting a drive

[Scott Adams]

I have a case in which I want users to be able to
defragment their disk drives, but I do not want them in
the Administrators group. What are my options?

 

[William W. Plummer]

I have a case in which I want users to be able to
defragment their disk drives, but I do not want them in
the Administrators group. What are my options?

You and your users can simply ignore defragmenting.... WinNT, 2K, XP
etc have large disk caches which make the physical location of sectors
nearly irrelevant. I admit it makes us feel like we have accomplished
something by sitting there watching the fancy display of disk sectors
being moved around, but nobody will ever be able to tell that you have
defragged. (I hope somebody is paying you for your time to defrag!)

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

You and your users can simply ignore defragmenting.... WinNT, 2K, XP
etc have large disk caches which make the physical location of sectors
nearly irrelevant. I admit it makes us feel like we have accomplished
something by sitting there watching the fancy display of disk sectors
being moved around, but nobody will ever be able to tell that you have
defragged. (I hope somebody is paying you for your time to defrag!)

I don't think its correct. Defragmentation cannot be ignored just because
the system is running NT,XP etc. Its a file system issue. However,
defragmentation is less seen in NTFS systems rather than FAT systems which
are supported by NT,2k,Xp only.
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Madhur Ahuja
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Email : madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com

 

[Jerold Schulman]

I have a case in which I want users to be able to
defragment their disk drives, but I do not want them in
the Administrators group. What are my options?

You can schedule it, tip 8414 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsiinc.com

Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

William,

And where did you get this bit of mis-information? Microsoft flat out says
that fragmentation is one of the primary issues to consider when evaluating
Windows XP.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.

 

[Greg Hayes/Raxco Software]

Scott,

The built-in defragmenter requires Admin privs in order to run. You can try
to get around it by scripting the GUI interface to the built-in defragmenter
and then scheduling this script using Task Scheduler. However, this isn't
actually giving your end-users the ability to defragment when they want.
You may want to consider a 3rd party defragmenter that allows non-priv users
to defragment.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

Want to email me? Delete ntloader.