Windows Scheduled Tasks

[Prakash]

Hello,
I hope someone knows solution to this problem. I have
setup Scheduled Tasks (Disk clean up and Disk Dfragmenter)
on user machines in my office on system idle
times.Eventhough, both the Cleanmgr and the Defragmenter
start up, they stop at their respective screens, asking
for drive to be cleaned and defragmented. How do I set up
the tasks so that they start doing their tasks
straightaway. Or how do I set up the drive to be cleaned
and defragmented?

Thanks
Prakash

 

[ariel]

The defrag utility that comes with w2k is a stripped down
version from Diskeeper. It is free in w2k, but does not
have a scheduler builtin like the pay-for product.

 

[Prakash]

So, can't we set it up so that it automatically selects
the drive to be defragemented.

How about the Disk cleanup utility? can we set that up so
that it selects the default drive to clean.

Prakash

 

[ariel]

for both - I don't think so, not native to the tool
anyway, but I could be wrong.

You might be able to setup WSH to script it, but I'm not
sure...

Here's a link to a forum that might show how. Good luck!

http://www.tek-
tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/67/lev3/70/pid/616/qid/449112

Ariel

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hello,
I hope someone knows solution to this problem. I have
setup Scheduled Tasks (Disk clean up and Disk Dfragmenter)
on user machines in my office on system idle
times.Eventhough, both the Cleanmgr and the Defragmenter
start up, they stop at their respective screens, asking
for drive to be cleaned and defragmented. How do I set up
the tasks so that they start doing their tasks
straightaway. Or how do I set up the drive to be cleaned
and defragmented?

Thanks
Prakash

Before you schedule any task, you must convince yourself
that it will run without any user intervention. Scheduling it
and hoping for the best won't really work.

Here is the link to a defragger that can be scheduled:

http://www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/