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    how to kill defrag!!?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by key, Apr 15, 2006.

  1. key

    key Notebook Enthusiast

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    is it just my system playing silly games or does windows deliberately try and defrag itself if you don't keep it occupied?

    as far as i'm aware the disk is fine and when you analyse it, it says no deframentation is required.

    if i leave it alone for 20 minutes or so i'll come back and find the disk chugging away and i find dfrgfat.exe running for a few seconds before it realise it's been found out.

    does anyone else have this? does anyone know how to stop it before my disk is prematurely worn out. okay so maybe it won't wear out that soon.

    xp pro sp2
     
    key, Apr 15, 2006
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    sionyboy Notebook Evangelist

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    Check the job schedule, perhaps it is set to run when the program is started.
     
    sionyboy, Apr 15, 2006
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    key Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi, thanks, good suggestion.

    i've just checked and there don't appear to be any defrag options like 'run annoyingly when you're not using the machine' or even 'run at start up'.

    checked the scheduler and it's not running. no tasks. no hidden tasks...

    i had a look at the disk admin service but didn't really want to start messing with it without know more about it.

    is this just me having the app run on it's own?
     
    key, Apr 15, 2006
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  4. RadcomTxx

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    download tweakui from MS

    one of the options in there is "optimize disk when idle" uncheck that. no more disk defrag when idle.
     
    RadcomTxx, Apr 15, 2006
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    key Notebook Enthusiast

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    this sounds like the one...

    thank you RadcomTxx! :D
     
    key, Apr 16, 2006
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    if your notebook is acer, then just run ePerformance which can be found in Empowering Technology menu group, then un-check the disk defragmentation.
     
    jisc, Apr 17, 2006
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    thanks jisc, i've had a look but i don't see anything like eperformance. yes it is an acer... apart from the unwanted defrag a happy little travelmate.

    RadcomTxx's tweakui seems to have tweaked it so i'm happy now.

    thanks all the same :)
     
    key, Apr 18, 2006
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