Vista - Defrag

I am happy that Microsoft now allows us to schedule hard drive
defragmentation. Is there any way to get the visual feedback of what defrag
is doing?

Hi Chuck,

The only way to get a detailed feedback from the Vista Disk Defragmenter is to run it from the command prompt. This tutorial will show you how.

Disk Defragmenter from Command Prompt


For all the nice graphs and stuff, the free program Auslogics Disk Defrag is the way to go. See:

Auslogics - Download Auslogics Disk Defrag

Shawn

Hi Chuck,

Here is an excerpt from the "The Filing Cabinet" blog:

Why was the defrag progress indicator removed?

Part of the problem with the Windows XP defrag tool was that percent complete was not accurate or meaningful. Depending on the phase of defrag, 1% of progress could take from several seconds to minutes, which made the progress indicator highly unreliable. The difficulty here is that since defrag is a multi-pass process (multiple iterations of file defragmentation and free space consolidation) there is no way to accurately predict when defrag will complete since the number of loop iterations and how long each takes are highly dependent on the layout of the files on the volume, the level of file and free space fragmentation, and the other system activity. While I agree that having no progress is bad, misleading progress I believe is worse. Also, the idea behind the new automated defrag is that users will not have to think about it not worry about the progress it is making. With defrag running regularly, the system will be close to optimal levels of fragmentation, and subsequent defrag runs should not take long.

The Filing Cabinet : Disk Defragmenter FAQ:
https://blogs.technet.com/filecab/articles/440717.aspx

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Regards,

Ramesh Srinivasan, Microsoft MVP [Windows Shell/User]
Windows® Troubleshooting http://www.winhelponline.com


"ChuckN" <Chuck@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3FFD3003-FAB2-48DA-A1F8-32C6D7F7EEF3@xxxxxx
I am happy that Microsoft now allows us to schedule hard drive
defragmentation. Is there any way to get the visual feedback of what defrag
is doing?