Schedule Defrag Skip Bisconer 6/4/2007 5:34:01 PM I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me out here. Thanks for looking at my problem

Re: Schedule Defrag "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/4/2007 5:47:36 PM Start----all programs---accessories---system tools. "Skip Bisconer" <SkipBisconer[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:127CA675-9D47-41FB-A459-373D2DA914CB[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the > application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me > out > here. > > Thanks for looking at my problem

Re: Schedule Defrag "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/4/2007 6:01:53 PM If I misunderstood your post, did you find 'scheduled tasks' in control panel? "Skip Bisconer" <SkipBisconer[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:127CA675-9D47-41FB-A459-373D2DA914CB[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the > application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me > out > here. > > Thanks for looking at my problem

Re: Schedule Defrag "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan[ at ]SBXXXIX.com> 6/4/2007 7:14:47 PM In news:127CA675-9D47-41FB-A459-373D2DA914CB[ at ]microsoft.com, Skip Bisconer <SkipBisconer[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to > find the > application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some > one help > me out here. > > Thanks for looking at my problem Keep in mind that you can only schedule the command line version, defrag.exe. You won't be able to schedule the GUI version, dfrag.msc. That said, defrag.exe should be located in your C:\Windows\System32 folder. If it's not present, you can restore it from your XP installation CD. Put the installation disk in your CD drive. Go to Start -> Run and enter cmd.exe in the Open box. Click OK. In the Command prompt window, type the following command and hit the enter key. expand D:\i386\defrag.ex_ C:\Windows\System32\defrag.exe Note: The above command assumes that your CD drive is D. Substitute the correct drive letter if it's not. Also, there is a space after expand and defrag.ex_. Here are a couple of articles with more info. How to Automate Disk Defragmenter Using Task Scheduler Tool in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;555098 Schedule a Task to Defragment Drives http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/gehrke1.mspx Good luck Nepatsfan

Re: Schedule Defrag "Bogey Man" <spam[ at ]kwic.com> 6/5/2007 1:46:19 PM "Skip Bisconer" <SkipBisconer[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:127CA675-9D47-41FB-A459-373D2DA914CB[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the > application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me > out > here. > > Thanks for looking at my problem Make a simple batch file to handle the defraging of your drives. Defrag.exe must be installed for this to work. This is my batch file created with Notepad (must be a text file): defrag.bat defrag /f C: defrag /f D: defrag /f E: End Then create a Scheduled task pointing to the defrag batch file that you wrote to handle the defrag. -- Ron P Member of the invisible generation

RE: Schedule Defrag Kaja 6/6/2007 2:47:01 PM Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you go to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point in time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag more than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful. Kaja "Skip Bisconer" wrote: [Quoted Text] > I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the > application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me out > here. > > Thanks for looking at my problem

Re: Schedule Defrag "Bogey Man" <spam[ at ]kwic.com> 6/6/2007 5:40:00 PM "Kaja" <Kaja[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:97FCBEC4-F530-4BF9-B654-5ACB7D08DEB7[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you > go > to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it > will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point > in > time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is > necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag > more > than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful. > Kaja I have found that if it actually does a defrag under the situation that you are talking about, it does a very poor job of it. I really have my doubts about Windows making intelligent decisions concerning defragging a drive because my wife's computer hadn't been manually defragged and it was getting slower and slower. I ran defrag manually after checking the drive for errors and not finding any. It took 6 hours to defrag the machine and it ran just beautifully after.

Re: Schedule Defrag "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> 6/6/2007 6:02:52 PM Why on earth would it be a bad thing?? "Kaja" <Kaja[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:97FCBEC4-F530-4BF9-B654-5ACB7D08DEB7[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Keep in mind that you may need not to schedule a defrag because when you > go > to start, all programs, accesories, system tools, defrag in Windows XP it > will examine your computer to see if a defrag is necessary at that point > in > time. I would reccomend checking back from time to time to see when it is > necessary instead of sceduling a time. There is no need to do a defrag > more > than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. Hope that is helpful. > Kaja > > "Skip Bisconer" wrote: > >> I am trying to schedule the disk defrag and I cannot seem to find the >> application in any of the windows including Browse. Can some one help me >> out >> here. >> >> Thanks for looking at my problem

Re: Schedule Defrag "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/6/2007 8:25:18 PM On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 13:02:52 -0500, "Unknown" <unknown[ at ]unknown.kom> wrote: [Quoted Text] >Why on earth would it be a bad thing?? It's not. Worst case, it's just a waste of time and effort. >"Kaja" <Kaja[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >news:97FCBEC4-F530-4BF9-B654-5ACB7D08DEB7[ at ]microsoft.com... >> There is no need to do a defrag >> more >> than necessary actually that may be a bad thing. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup