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Vista disk defrag question
Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its
own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
Hi,
Actually, by default it's scheduled to go once a week and you need do no more. It will occur as a low priority background process automatically. You will find this set in the Task Scheduler. As long as you don't remove the task or disable the scheduler, it will happen automatically. If you do disable either the task or the scheduler, then you will need to manually start it when you suspect the drive is fragmented. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "EW" wrote in message ... Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
Hi "EW":
Once you get SP1 installed, when you open the Vista Defrag program you will have additional options for defragging your PC. Currently starting the defrag program Vista will defrag all hard drives/volumes it thinks needs it. With SP1 there is a button to select which drives/volumes you want to defrag and start it immediately or set up automatic defragging for just the drives/volumes you want to defrag. xiowan.........in tucson "EW" wrote: Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
"EW" wrote: Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? Yes. ------- [How to ask a question] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
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Vista disk defrag question
If you open up "Task Scheduler" you should see in the Active Tasks section
an entry of "ScheduledDefrag". This scheduled task was automatically created by the system. "EW" wrote in message ... Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
I have a question about that. I recently downloaded the Auslogic Disk
Defragmentation tool and it found approximately 1,200 files fragmented. I am sure that is not a lot considering the computer is a year old and all I have used is the Windows disk defragmenter. However, about it running in the background...does this only occur when your computer is idle or is this when you are performing operations? I question this because I use a laptop and I never leave it running, when it is on I am using it and when I'm not using it, it is hibernating. Thanks for your response! -- Check out the great stores listed here! Receive special offers! Visit http://driven.mysite.com "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Actually, by default it's scheduled to go once a week and you need do no more. It will occur as a low priority background process automatically. You will find this set in the Task Scheduler. As long as you don't remove the task or disable the scheduler, it will happen automatically. If you do disable either the task or the scheduler, then you will need to manually start it when you suspect the drive is fragmented. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "EW" wrote in message ... Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
As long as the unit is plugged in, the defrag is no issue. If, however, you
go mobile with it, using the battery, I would suggest disabling the auto-defrag, as it will consume power unecessarily by running the defrag in the background even when you're running on the battery. "EW" wrote: Thanks to you all for the replies. Now I know. Best regards. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
If you are really concerned about defrag running down the battery, then I
would suggest that occasionally or somewhat frequently you explicitly run defrag while the laptop is on external power, during a time when you are not using the laptop. Then there won't be much work that defrag has to do and it won't run for long if it starts to run while on battery power alone. Then you can leave defrags scheduled task (auto-defrag) alone. "Westeban" wrote in message ... As long as the unit is plugged in, the defrag is no issue. If, however, you go mobile with it, using the battery, I would suggest disabling the auto-defrag, as it will consume power unecessarily by running the defrag in the background even when you're running on the battery. "EW" wrote: Thanks to you all for the replies. Now I know. Best regards. EW |
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Vista disk defrag question
Hi,
The default defrag process will run as a low priority process. Obviously it will run when idle, but whether or not it runs while in use depends on the degree of use. Heavy demands would preclude it, but light ones would not. As to how Auslogic will run, I can't answer as I don't use it. I have tried some others, perfectdisk among them, and the results are similar to the standard process. I personally think that defragging is overrated, and casual users will not see much benefit from it. Heavy gamers, video editors, autocad users maybe, but casual users do not put that much demand on their system and will likely notice little if any difference in response times even on a moderately fragmented system. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "tempting2taanzaa" wrote in message ... I have a question about that. I recently downloaded the Auslogic Disk Defragmentation tool and it found approximately 1,200 files fragmented. I am sure that is not a lot considering the computer is a year old and all I have used is the Windows disk defragmenter. However, about it running in the background...does this only occur when your computer is idle or is this when you are performing operations? I question this because I use a laptop and I never leave it running, when it is on I am using it and when I'm not using it, it is hibernating. Thanks for your response! -- Check out the great stores listed here! Receive special offers! Visit http://driven.mysite.com "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Actually, by default it's scheduled to go once a week and you need do no more. It will occur as a low priority background process automatically. You will find this set in the Task Scheduler. As long as you don't remove the task or disable the scheduler, it will happen automatically. If you do disable either the task or the scheduler, then you will need to manually start it when you suspect the drive is fragmented. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "EW" wrote in message ... Does Vista (Home Premium, in my case) defrag the hard drive(s) on its own, without being scheduled to do so? I know I can manually force a defrag, but what about unscheduled defrags? Thanks. EW |
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