Giving user access to defrag uitility

[Shaun Dryden]

My users can not use the defrag utility. The OS will not
give access to the defrag utility unless you are logon as
an administrator. I do not want to give my users admin
rights just to defrag thier hard drives. Anyone know how
to give my users access to this utility.

Thanks,
shaun

 

[Drew Cooper [MSFT]]

The defragmenter has complete low-level access to the volume. It would be a
security risk to allow that kind of access to all users ('cause they would
soon have script-kiddie type tools to access everyone else's files). You
have to be an administrator. No way around it. Sorry.

 

[Torgeir Bakken (MVP)]

The defragmenter has complete low-level access to the volume. It would be a
security risk to allow that kind of access to all users ('cause they would
soon have script-kiddie type tools to access everyone else's files). You
have to be an administrator. No way around it. Sorry.

Hi

What about putting defrag.exe in a scheduled task (running under an
administrator account), that might work?


If it is an requirement that the (non-admin) user must be able to start the
defrag utility manually at will, this might work as well:

Create a service that runs defrag.exe when started using srvany.exe/instsrv.exe:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

Then grant the users rights to start the service (to start defrag.exe):

HOW TO: Grant Users Rights to Manage Services in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288129

 

[Drew Cooper [MSFT]]

Yes, the task scheduler works.

I hadn't thought of running it as a service. Good idea! I wonder why we
don't do that out of the box . . . hmm. Maybe 'cause it's licensed from a
3rd party.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
My users can not use the defrag utility. The OS will not
give access to the defrag utility unless you are logon as
an administrator. I do not want to give my users admin
rights just to defrag thier hard drives. Anyone know how
to give my users access to this utility.

Thanks,
shaun
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