Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

Benzmum wrote:
Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

try Auslogics defrag. it's free. sorry I'm not an MVP.

Try this; open the command promt elevated as an administrator. At the
command prompt type defrag c: -s

This will analyze the hard drive and tell you the fragmentation level of the
drive.

Hope that helps.

Eddie Johnson


"Benzmum" wrote in message
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Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

Duuu-uuhhh.... Where's the command prompt in XP? I don't see "Run" where it
was in XP (i.e., on the start menu).

"Eddie Johnson" wrote:

Try this; open the command promt elevated as an administrator. At the
command prompt type defrag c: -s

This will analyze the hard drive and tell you the fragmentation level of the
drive.

Hope that helps.

Eddie Johnson


"Benzmum" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

....Sorry - make that "where's the command prompt in VISTA?"

"Benzmum" wrote:

Duuu-uuhhh.... Where's the command prompt in XP? I don't see "Run" where it
was in XP (i.e., on the start menu).

"Eddie Johnson" wrote:

Try this; open the command promt elevated as an administrator. At the
command prompt type defrag c: -s

This will analyze the hard drive and tell you the fragmentation level of the
drive.

Hope that helps.

Eddie Johnson


"Benzmum" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

I was also at first frustrated by vista not having a 'run' option right
on the start menu. But here's a quick way to get command prompt to
open:
Create a new notepad document, and type in it:

command.com

Go to save as, change the file type from 'text (.txt)' to 'all files',
and name it [anything].bat
in effect, you're making a batch file to tell your computer to run
command prompt. it shouldn't be this complicated, and probably isn't,
but that's how i've been using command prompt in vista so far.


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of course, it also works to open the start menu and type 'command' in
the search bar. it'll come up in a few seconds, i personally prefer to
save myself the extra second of typing.


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steaminshrooms

oh, right...you're going to need to run as an administrator. so to do
that, right click on the batch file you've created, click create
shortcut. the name shouldn't matter. right click the shortcut, click
properties. go to the 'shortcut' tab, click 'advanced', and then check
the check box to run it as an admin. then just run your batch file from
the shortcut, and windows should ask you for permission each time. you
can use a similar method if you open command prompt's properties when
you locate it via search.


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steaminshrooms

The command prompt is located in Accessories. click start, click programs,
click accessories, right click command prompt, click run as administrator

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments
that take your breath away.

"Benzmum" wrote in message
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...Sorry - make that "where's the command prompt in VISTA?"

"Benzmum" wrote:

Duuu-uuhhh.... Where's the command prompt in XP? I don't see "Run" where
it
was in XP (i.e., on the start menu).

"Eddie Johnson" wrote:

Try this; open the command promt elevated as an administrator. At the
command prompt type defrag c: -s

This will analyze the hard drive and tell you the fragmentation level
of the
drive.

Hope that helps.

Eddie Johnson


"Benzmum" wrote in message
...
Hi. I've just moved over from XP to Vista, and I'm wondering why
vista
doesn't give me the option of Analyzing whether or not my drive needs
defragmenting. I'd do the analysis once a month in XP and it almost
always
told me it was unnecessary.

I'd be grateful if an MVP could respond to my question.

To add the Run command to the Start menu: Right click on the Start Orb select
Properties Start Menu tab Customize button scroll down and check "Run
command".


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"steaminshrooms" wrote in message
...

oh, right...you're going to need to run as an administrator. so to do
that, right click on the batch file you've created, click create
shortcut. the name shouldn't matter. right click the shortcut, click
properties. go to the 'shortcut' tab, click 'advanced', and then check
the check box to run it as an admin. then just run your batch file from
the shortcut, and windows should ask you for permission each time. you
can use a similar method if you open command prompt's properties when
you locate it via search.


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steaminshrooms