Vista Tutorial - Defrag, the annoying Vista "feature"

So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with
many files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.

Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is
"idle". But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver
locks your computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound
of hard-drive reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable
that "feature" of Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.

Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?
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IT/MsC/ITAdm
Engineering Services

give Auslogics Disk Defrag a look see.
works on 32 and 64 bit vista.
is FREE and shows those neat little moving boxes.



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"HAL" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:uRT92LJjHHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with
many files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.

Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is
"idle". But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver
locks your computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound
of hard-drive reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable
that "feature" of Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.

Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?
--
IT/MsC/ITAdm
Engineering Services

"HAL" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uRT92LJjHHA.4704@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> So, my Vista still goes nuts on hard-drive. I finally found that the
> defrag scheduled task tried to defrag my disk in a never-ending fashion.
> It seem to me that the defrag is badly tuned, thus a large drive with many
> files, and low disk space, will defrag forever.
>
> Microsoft say that the defrag should only start if the computer is "idle".
> But if you have a low screensaver timeout and the screensaver locks your
> computer, the defrag starts ASAP, making the horrible sound of hard-drive
> reading/writing in my living room. I just had to disable that "feature" of
> Vista now, removing defrag from schedule.
>
> Another thing, Defrag seem to use the switch defrag -i "-i" is an
> undocumented feature if you type defrag /? in console. What does it do?
> --
> IT/MsC/ITAdm
> Engineering Services


-i switch explanation here:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...arameters.aspx

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