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Why we have to manually start the disk defragmenter in Windows XP?.
phoenix
Posted 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333
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Why defragging should be manually started in Windows XP?
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Because it is very disk intensive and it can slow down your system a lot. If an operating system did that without my intention I wouldn't buy it.
Although if you want you can schedule it to run.
John T
Posted 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333
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You don't have to. You can make the computer automatically start it for you.
Here's Microsoft's page on how schedule defragmentation with XP.
Dan Walker
Posted 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333
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If you use JKDefrag or Mydefrag you can set defragmentation as your screensaver and it will start whenever your not busy. That solves all your problems!
Ivo Flipse
Posted 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333
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Check out:
Allows you to select individual files to defrag, can be configured to execute in the background, can be scheduled to run automatically at specific times.
Aaron
Posted 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333
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3I guess you'll never buy Vista or Windows 7. They both defragment in the drive in the background. The trick is that they only do it when your computer is idle. – Dan Walker – 2009-07-20T06:34:46.393
2Let me rephrase: If an operating system defragged while I was using the computer, I would not buy it. No computer near me is ever idle ;) – John T – 2009-07-20T06:46:09.050
1I hate hearing the hard drive working, when I'm trying to. – Lance Roberts – 2009-07-20T06:49:39.120
Same, if my machine suddenly starts thrashing the HDD, I wonder what's wrong, and go to find out what the hell it's doing.. – Dentrasi – 2009-07-20T07:10:08.773