Scheduled Defrag

[Vicky]

I want to schedule a disk defrag on task schedule, but it
will not work. I am running winxp. I did set it up, but
it will not run when scheduled. Does Anyone knows how to
solve this?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I want to schedule a disk defrag on task schedule, but it
will not work. I am running winxp. I did set it up, but
it will not run when scheduled. Does Anyone knows how to
solve this?
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Check out this newsletter I get, this issue talks about

defragging and task manager. click on past issues and
look for the newsletter dated 10-27-2003

http://www.langa.com/about_fred.htm

 

[Daniel L. Belton]

I want to schedule a disk defrag on task schedule, but it
will not work. I am running winxp. I did set it up, but
it will not run when scheduled. Does Anyone knows how to
solve this?

The way the XP defrag does when you set it up in task scheduler will
still come up with a prompt that you have to answer, thus making it
virtually usless this way.

However, it can be run from a command prompt without that pesky little
box popping up...

Just setup a file with a text editor...

in that file put this line

defrag.exe c: -f

Save as a .bat file... maybe defragC.bat

now you can setup task scheduler to run degragC.bat at a specified time.

 

[Vince C.]

"Daniel L. Belton" <[email protected]> a écrit dans le message de
[...]

Just setup a file with a text editor...

in that file put this line

defrag.exe c: -f

Save as a .bat file... maybe defragC.bat

now you can setup task scheduler to run degragC.bat at a specified time.

You could as well type "defrag.exe c: -f" (without the quotes) in the task's
"Execute" area. A batch is not necessary.

Vince C.