How do I schedule Disk Defragmenter to run with the Windows Task Scheduler?

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One of the cool aspects of Windows Vista: this is a default behavior. Once a week the disk defragger will kick off - 4:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.

The only drawback: the cute progress window (showing the fragmentation as the tool ran) has been eliminated in Vista... nothing to watch! If you like metrics, you can run defrag at the command prompt with the -a -v options.

The Vista version uses fewer system resources and will operate with a drive that is nearly full. Previous versions required 15 to 20 percent empty space on the disk.

I have wanting to do this for awhile. The problem is I am running windows 2000 and when I click on "program files" there is no "system 32".

Do these instruction work with windows 2000?

Alan
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What a convoluted way to schedule the Windows defragmenter which in my opinon as an archaic piece of software.

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Once you install Disjkeper 2007 it runs automatically in the background allof the time without interuption.You do not have to schedule it or stop working as you have to do with the Windows XP defragmenter.I am practically fragment free without doing anyhting. There are other nice things that you can also do with Diskeeper 2007. List Prices range from $29.95 to $129 for the different versions. I use the Diskeeper 2007 Premir Pro. It is fabulous. While you are at it also look at Diskeeper Undelete

Arthur F. Billy

I followed directions to add the frag log to the running of the defrag routine. It was put into the schedule to run in the early am on Monday (yesterday). When the log was not created, I started investigating. I tried to run defrag from the run box in my XP Service Pack 2 system. The black box flashed momentarily and then vanished. This happened two or three times. I then ran the defrag routine that is a part of system tools and that said I didn't need to run it, but I did anyway; it took maybe an hour, and then finished fine. Every since service pack 2 certain things I have tried have acted like that: the black run box starting and then quitting without any messages or indications. I suspect there is a fundamental problem with the OS caused by service pack 2, but have no way of knowing what it is and of course of being able to correct it. Is this something that you could address?

Follow up to previous query about defrag. Re: your article on "When I use start-run and type in a command, why does a window just flash and disappear?" Which is what was happening to me. So I followed your directions, using cmd and the window did not disappear. Then when I put in the defrag command exactly as you have it. I get the message: "access is denied". When I followed the steps above it never asked for any password. I'm the only one using my machine.

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Access denied implies to me that you need to be logged in as administrator to
do the defrag.

Leo
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Wow, incredible astroturfing from the people at Diskeeper. Could you make more obviously biased comment spam? Not a chance I'd ever try, let alone buy, your product now (and most of your comments are wrong). Diskeeper: either your sales policy is sleazy or an individual there is.

Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious and/or not thinking properly...
I think the reason it flashes up and disappears again is 'cause it isn't running. It requires for you to specify the drive after typing in defrag. This is not specified. I changed the loggeddefrag file to "defrag c: >c:\defrag.log 2>&1" but it still didn't seem to work. Can anyone advise me?

"Wow, incredible astroturfing from the people at Diskeeper. Could you make more obviously biased comment spam? Not a chance I'd ever try, let alone buy, your product now (and most of your comments are wrong). Diskeeper: either your sales policy is sleazy or an individual there is.

Posted by: Troy at June 5, 2007 07:02 PM"

Dear Troy

Of course you do realise when you state "Not a chance I'd ever try, let alone buy, your product now" that the Windows defrag routine is a cut-down version of Diskeeper. Let us know how you get on with the uninstall.

Cheers

Douglas

I tried to do this, and it says I do not have permission to set the scheduled task, what do I do?

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