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Defrag as a user

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by eisley_rodrigues

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OS: Win2000
How to I give users rights to run defrag without giving them administrative access.

Can I perform a Group Policy change or run a command from the command line such as runas

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by flan

Normal users shouldn't defrag. If you want them to do that might as well make them admin

by hjs

Use diskeeper 5.0. We use diskeeper in NT and you do not have to be an admin. I don't see a problem with users defraging a machine. We set them to go off in the middle of the nite.

by eisley_rodrigues

Thanks for the answer.

It reminded me that I can use the scheduling function in Windows 2000.
Using either the [AT] command or the GUI interface.

by kmmarti

As the last stated, I would build this function into the set-up procedure when I configure my network. Win 2000 gives you the option of selecting disk clean up and defrag options, and running them off of a task scheduler. Build this option into yourconfig when setting up users rights so that the machine will automatically do this at a time of your choice, such as midnight on Sun for example.

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