Setting up defrag

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Daniel

Hi

I'm running Vista Ultimate.

How do I get into Dfrag so I can select the drives to defrag?

My preference is to go back to the XP interface if possible?

thanks

Daniel
 
There is no graphical interface for defrag in Vista. It is a low priority
service that runs unobtrusively in the background. You don't need an
interface for the way it is designed to work.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
Not the best solution, but find the command prompt (as in Start>All
programs>Accessories> Command prompt). Right click on the command prompt
icon and choose "Run as administrator."
Type "defrag C:" (without the quotes but with the colon) assuming C is the
letter of the drive you want to defrag. If not, then substitute C with
whatever drive you're trying to defrag.
That way, you get to choose the drive you want to defrag, but you won't get
any XP-style visual representation of the defrag process.

Once defrag is done, type "exit" to close the command prompt window.
 
DP and Richard

thanks for your help, at least I get what I wanted to do, IE defrag a
selected drive.

regards

Daniel
 
you can still get into it by clicking start, programs, accessories, system
tools, defrag.
It is not the informative way it was setup in XP. AND, it does not
automatically defrag in the background as the other bloke said; it is a
scheduled degrag at 1am or 3am. You can change the scheduled time to suit
yourself. I prefer the XP way as you could see where it was up to!
 
And after it starts via the schedule, it runs unobtrusively in the
background. If you don't go to the defrag program you will likely not even
know it is running. That is how few resources it uses. It may take 24 hours
to complete but it gets the job done.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
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