defrag

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Can't get it to run on DW's LT.

The window opens briefly, then disappears.

[jlowrance Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jlowrance]

Are you still having an issue with this?
Can you be more specific - what OS (windows xp, windows 2000, windows 7, etc).
How are you starting the defrag? Is it the defrag that comes with Windows or is it from an installed utility?

Happy to help - just need some more info!

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Are you still having an issue with this?
Can you be more specific - what OS (windows xp, windows 2000, windows 7, etc).
How are you starting the defrag? Is it the defrag that comes with Windows or is it from an installed utility?

Happy to help - just need some more info!

Yes

xp

Clicking Start, Run, typing in defrag, clicking OK

Windows

[jlowrance Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close jlowrance]

Running defrag from a command line requires some parameters to be entered - you can't just run "defrag".

Another way to run defrag is to do the following:

• Open My Computer.
• Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment, and then click Properties.
• On the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.
• Click Defragment.

If you want to do it with the command line (as you are attempting), here are the parameters you can use.

Let me know if either of these works for you - or if you need more help!

Command Line Parameters and Explanations

Usage - defrag volume [-a] [-f][-v] [-?]

Parameters:

volume
The drive letter or a mount point of the volume to be defragmented

-a
Analyze only

-f
Forces defragmentation of the volume regardless of whether it needs to be defragmented or even if free space is low

-v
Verbose output

-?
Display the help tex

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Ole POC, win98, defrags only in Safe Mode, exactly the way I explained.

It is set to auto-defrag every day, but can't because of programs always running.

I need to get it out of auto-defrag cuz I hate to hear it fruitlesslessly, hopelessly churning away and never getting past 1%.

[Kentonmag Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Kentonmag]

I can't run Defrag either but it's because it requires free memory to run with and it's telling me my hard-drive is full. Check your hard drive to see how much free memory you have. If it's full you can either delete them or transfer to a thumbdrive or DVD-RW.
My Son has bought me an external drive for Xmas to back up my rubbish onto, this should solve my problem.
This probably isn't your problem but it's worth checking out.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

I notice one of the toolbar icons is Dell PC Tuneup. I looked at the menu and defrag is in there. We've never used it. I says the first two runs are free and then you have to subscribe to it.

Is that different than, or instead of, Windows task scheduler?

Anyone use it?

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Running defrag from a command line requires some parameters to be entered - you can't just run "defrag".

Another way to run defrag is to do the following:

• Open My Computer.
• Right-click the local disk volume that you want to defragment, and then click Properties.
• On the Tools tab, click Defragment Now.
• Click Defragment.

Yup, that worked.

Thanks