Scheduled Defrag in Vista Home Premium

[roger]

The "scheduled defragmentation " feature in my Vista does not appear to work.
In the task window I select the time/date. When I go to the status window I
note that the "Next scheduled run" line, the correct time/date is indicated.
Once I close out of it, the "Next scheduled run" line switches to "never",
even though the scheduled defragmentation is enabled. It will not defrag
automatically, either. It will go for days and the only defrag that ever
happens is when I defrag manually. HP techs don't know how to help the
problem and MS would be glad to help for a hefty charge of $69. Anybody else
experience this defrag problem, or better yet, have a solution?

 

[Joseph Meehan]

How often do you want to defrag?

I assume you have administrator authority when you try to reset it?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Leave the defrag alone, its doing just fine in Vista, it runs at all time in
the background as a low priority process keeping your Windows Vista system
in tip top shape. Its pretty cool stuff.
http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/ar...s-cover-why-windows-vista-defrag-is-cool.aspx

 

[Huib]

Hallo,
I did also some investigation on it and i agree that the defrag is running
on low priority but not always..
In the taskmanager the parameters are set for all discs and low priority but
weekly on a fix day and hour.


regards
Huib

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

But you have to understand, its being done for you automatically, in
previous versions of Windows, did had to be done manually and usually once
in a blue moon. I can't even tell when last I started a defrag on my XP
machine, but Vista is doing it for me.

 

[RA]

But you have to understand, its being done for you automatically, in
previous versions of Windows, did had to be done manually and usually
once in a blue moon. I can't even tell when last I started a defrag
on my XP machine, but Vista is doing it for me.

How do you know it is being done for you? Is there a way to tell if it is in
need of defragging? Or are we just to assume that it is all taken care of?

 

[Ralph]

Hi,

I've been hunting for information on our new Vista defrag, and have come up
lacking. (I did find some at MS)
If you want to see the schedule event, look in... wait for it ...the task
scheduler.
I turned mine off.

The defrag utility has an analysis that gives about as much information as
the defrag - very little.
I'm sure MS will be prodded into more cosmetic information as the tide of
complaints comes in.
I'm looking forward to SP1, sort of.

IMHO, you were smart to do the old defrag 'once in a blue moon'. It's hard
on your hard drive.
I've seen tons of people do that defrag regularly, and a large percentage of
those people had hard drive crashes.

MS says the low priority and background execution of defrag won't affect
your regular use of the system.
I guess I only imagine the improvement, or I'm not a normal user. -could be
both.

 

[RA]

Hi,

I've been hunting for information on our new Vista defrag, and have
come up lacking. (I did find some at MS)
If you want to see the schedule event, look in... wait for it ...the
task scheduler.
I turned mine off.

The defrag utility has an analysis that gives about as much
information as the defrag - very little.
I'm sure MS will be prodded into more cosmetic information as the
tide of complaints comes in.
I'm looking forward to SP1, sort of.

IMHO, you were smart to do the old defrag 'once in a blue moon'. It's hard
on your hard drive.
I've seen tons of people do that defrag regularly, and a large
percentage of those people had hard drive crashes.

MS says the low priority and background execution of defrag won't
affect your regular use of the system.
I guess I only imagine the improvement, or I'm not a normal user.
-could be both.

I have had boxes where hardly any defragging was done and boxes where it was
done quite often and regularly in XP and other OSs and no crashes happened
in either instance. I have seen a couple of cases where defragging actually
helped the performance of a system.
My question isn't about whether or not to defrag, I just want to know how
can you tell if it needs it or not.