Remotely force a defragmentation

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First, the computers are of around 21 Win 7 Machines and 29 Win XP machines. The DC is a Win2k8 server and the Mail server is Win2k3

I need to force a remote defragmentation on roughly 50 computers. They have been complaining of slow performance and were recently plagued with a virus. It is impractical to physically go there and start 50 of these as it would have to be after hours. Is there a way to remotely send a command to each PC that will either create a scheduled tasks to kick it off or just force a defrag all together?

Ryan Riles nailed the answer, but if you have a bunch of virus-infected computers, you should consider re-imaging them. Only way to be sure you got it all. And your image should have less fragmentation too, so it's killing two birds with one stone. — HopelessN00b, Aug 15 '12 at 16:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 15 '12 at 16:33

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There are going to be a number of different ways to accomplish this, but the first thing that comes to mind is to write a script to use PsExec to run defrag.exe on each PC.

answered Aug 15 '12 at 16:33

Ryan Ries

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 15 '12 at 17:20

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For Windows 7 why are you bothering to force a defrag? Windows 7 by default defrags all hard drives on a periodic schedule.

answered Aug 15 '12 at 17:20

Brent Pabst

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Remotely force a defragmentation

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