Microsoft Automatically Schedules Defragmentation In Vista
There are a countless number of times that I have had people complain that their computer is running slow, and I ask them if they defragmented it lately. They stand their puzzled as if I just asked what the square root of 32137561 is. Once I have shown them how to do it I know deep down that it will never be done again unless it is done by me.
By default Vista will defragment the computer every Sunday at 4:00AM which is probably the time everyone uses the computer the least. I am not quite sure how it will handle itself if the computer is turned off at that time because scheduled tasks can do two different things in that situation: run when the computer is started or wait until the next scheduled time. Hopefully they will just have it run when the computer is started but I don’t think that will be the case.
Image taken from the Windows SuperSite.
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Hi!
Ehm, this is kind of stone age, right? I mean, Diskeeper (http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.asp) does this since years, and even smarter: It automatically defrags when your PC is idle, and stops when you continue to work. I have my old version 7 running on XP, and it runs smoothly without any issues.
I still think MS is far behind.
Just my 5 cents.
André
I’ve rarely deferagmented a drive, and speaking as one who (as you may have noticed) is rather into computers I don’t think this is that great a feature. For a start with the size of drives these days a defragment could take a whole hour to complete, which isn’t what you want hogging your processor on boot. Secondly I’ve never actually seen a performance benefit from a defragment. Maybe on a slow machine with not enough memory (anything less than 1GB) it would be a problem, but not on a decent specced PC. I may try a standard XP defrag at some point and see if I notice a difference, but I shan’t hold my breath.