Running Defrag

[Scott Rowe]

Howdy,

How can I give rights to a user to run defrag without giving admin rights.

Domain setup running XP pro environmant currently running SP2 and soon SP3.

 

[Salvador Manaois III]

You can't. Under normal conditions, that is.

"Although any user can gain access to the Disk Defragmenter tool, the
ability to analyze or defragment a volume requires administrator privileges."

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/305781
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/231176/en-us

You can do a runas as mentioned on one of the KBs above. Or if you don't
want to expose the admin account to the user, create a wrapper for runas to
execute the defragmentation. Tools like AutoIT should be able to accomplish
this "wrapping" task.