John Hanley

Thanks Sam; I have now changed the schedule to 9 a.m. on Wednesdays, so I
can keep an eye on it!


"Sam Kroonenburg [MSFT]" <samkroon@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello John,
>
> No, defrag will not wake your computer from sleep to perform a scheduled
> defrag. It will postpone the defrag until later. It will wait until you
> power on your machine, and you leave your machine idle for some period of
> time (ie. it will not start automatically as soon as you power on your
> machine and start using it. Defrag should only run when you are not using
> your machine. )
>
> Thanks!
> Sam Kroonenburg
>
> "John Hanley" <jphanley@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:%23gGAOQw1HHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>> "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?
>