Apparently the defragmenter GUI was removed because people didn't want to
see it. However, now that its gone many people want it back.
An alternative defragmenting application is Auslogic Disk Defrag which is
free. you might like to try that.
http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag
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"ryan101" <ryan101@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi i am writing after i have just installed the new service pack 2 for
> windows vista and am just trying to suggest that with the disk
> defragmenter,
> as there isnt a lot that has been changed like the only things that have
> been
> changed are that you can now select volums to defrag. one thing that may
> help
> with this is to put a small graph (or GUI) similar to the windows xp one
> on
> it and maybe a timer if possible so that people know how long it is going
> to
> roughly be until it finishes, and a report message say as again in the
> previous version telling what amount of fragmentation there is and what
> files
> are fragmented. also another thing that i have noticed with vista is that
> it
> takes up a lot of memory and if possible would there be any chance of
> trying
> to make sure that vista uses less memory so that it can be more
> responsive.
> These sugestions are from over the internet that people would like to see
> happen as it would aid me and other people.
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