Vista Tutorial - Disk Defragmenter

Hi Genesis1,

If the schedule was enabled from either Option One or Option Two, it will enable it both areas. It is not unusual that sometimes a Windows Update will reset something like this back to default settings. Usually only from a major update though like the SP1.

I'm not sure of what you mean is missing. The default Disk Defragmenter shortcut is located in the Start Menu, All Programs, Accessories, and System Tools folder. If you meant from within Administrative Tools, then you will need to just copy or create the shortcut in it.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

No, I mean from the listing you mentioned previous, eg: Start Menu, All Programs, Accessories, and System Tools. Its not there anymore, since installing disk manager.Diskmanager is there instead of the Vista default one. Seems to have replaced the shortcut.

Genesis1,

That program may have taken over as the default program and also replaced the default shortcuts for Disk Defragmenter with it's own.

You should be able to manually create a shortcut for Disk Defraggmenter from it's .exe file located at C:\Windows\System32\dfrgui.exe. Just right click on dfrgui.exe and click on Send To and Desktop (Create shortcut). From there you can move or copy the new Disk Defragmenter shortcut from the desktop to where you like (ex: Start menu) for easy use.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn, will do.
Don't think programs should delete original shortcuts, its like how certian ISP's alter IE to look like they supplied it! Thank goodness for websites and people like you who can help us all restore normality.

Jon.

Your welcome Jon.

Hi Brink....Great Forum! I am running Vista Home Premium SP1 x64 with 8 Gigs of Ram. I am also running Diskeeper 2009. Since that is always running, but doesn't seem to use any real CPU usage, will that noticeably slow my system down ( I can't tell if it has)? Should I uninstall it and use AusLogics instead? Sorry that I am bumping this thread, but I thought it was pretty much on point. Thanks.....Michael

Hi Lordpuffer,

You can just turn the schedule off for Vista Disk Defragmenter to not have it run unless you run it manually.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn

You're welcome Lordpuffer.

Hi thanks for a great forum - I am a newbie (1st post) why did Vista do away with the colored squares when defraging? now I know Vista says its doing the job, but at least with previous versions of Windows you felt some thing was actually happening with a defrag, now am not convinced.

Kev