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  1. #1


    raymondvillain Guest

    defragment

    If Vista's defragment runs as a service, how does one disable it, or turn it
    off? I went to task manager and looked at all the services but could not
    find defragment. Does it have another name in task manager?
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    leave well enough alone



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  2. #2


    Jon Guest

    Re: defragment

    "raymondvillain" <raymondvillain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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    > If Vista's defragment runs as a service, how does one disable it, or turn
    > it
    > off? I went to task manager and looked at all the services but could not
    > find defragment. Does it have another name in task manager?
    > --
    > leave well enough alone



    A mix-up of instructions I suspect. Task 'Scheduler' is where you need to
    look - in the 'Defrag' folder

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    Jon



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  3. #3


    John Barnett MVP Guest

    Re: defragment

    Click the Start button and in the Search box type Defrag. At the top of the
    search box, under programs, you should see 'Disk defragmenter', Click on
    this to open disk defragmenter. In the disk defragmenter window you should
    see two button Modify Schedule and Defragment Now. If you look in the
    section where the Modify Schedule Button is you will see a box on the left
    hand side with a tick in it. The option says 'Run on a Schedule
    (recommended)' Remove the tick from the box and the scheduled run will be
    disabled.

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    "raymondvillain" <raymondvillain@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
    news:C718BFE9-BC81-4CCE-9179-CC25B9709872@microsoft.com...
    > If Vista's defragment runs as a service, how does one disable it, or turn
    > it
    > off? I went to task manager and looked at all the services but could not
    > find defragment. Does it have another name in task manager?
    > --
    > leave well enough alone



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