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Re: Does Vista Wake Up for Defragmenting? (a correction)
"John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:...
>I did some googling for an answer to this, but did not find a direct
>answer. My Disk Defragmenter is scheduled to run at 1:00 a.m. every
>Wednesday (the default schedule that came with the installation). Normally
>my computer is in Sleep mode at that time. Do I presume that the
>Defragmenter wakes the computer, performs the Defrag, then puts the
>computer back to Sleep? The reason I ask is that I see that the last
>Defrag was run last Wednesday at 10:11 p.m. which might have been about the
>time I put the computer to Sleep for the night; so possibly it got it over
>with before it actually entered Sleep? Just trying to understand. Thanks.
Just realized that I goofed in this post. The actual defrag took place at
10:11 p.m. Wednesday which is many hours *after* the scheduled time of 1:00
a.m. So, perhaps it could not defrag at the scheduled time and then did it
at an opportune time later?
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