Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine

[Guest]

When trying to defrag from DFRG.MSC and clicking on ANALYZE and/or DEFRAG,
nothing happens. I have no problems with the hard drive which has 85% free
space. When running "defrag.exe c: -a" from the command line, I get the
response "Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine". Anybody
here familiar with this problem or had a similar eXPerience who might be able
to help?
Thanks, ziggy

 

[David Candy]

Delete dfrgfat or dfrgntfs. If your computer is setup correctly it will replace these files with whole files.

 

[Guest]

Delete dfrgfat or dfrgntfs. If your computer is setup correctly it will replace these files with whole files.

 

[Guest]

Problem solved (duh)! Turns out that the service "DCOM Server Process
Launcher" has to be running for defrag to work. Ran into this answer on a
google search. Would be nice to have a message indicating this, rather than
just ignore the user. Thanks for the help.
ziggy

 

[Richard Urban]

Windows XP should - windows XP could???

WindowsXP can not have a message to counteract "everything" that a user does
to hurt his machine. Who turned off the dcom service process launcher to try
to save resources?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

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