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Win2K Defrag and scandisk

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I am now using Win2K on my desktop and would like to have a way to do desktop maintenance without having to go to the client to run dfrg and scandsk. I am new to Win2k and any help would be appreciated. One more thing is there a way to take away the right to run a setup on the power user.

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by alex_syssoev

The easiest way to do so:
run "mmc"
choose "Console/add remove snap-in/Add/" and add the utilities that you need , just instead of local computer connect to the remote comp[uter by using ip address or name. I can't guide you step by step, sorry don't have access to win2k at the moment . By the steps I describe shouild get you going.
Good luck.

by greg hayes/raxco software

Unfortunately, the Win2k built-in defragger doesn't provide a mechanism to centrally defrag. The Win2k built-in defragger is a manual mode (non scheduling) defragger that is limited in what it can do.

If you want the capability to centrally manager defrag operations, then you'll have to go with a commercial defragger. Commercial defraggers and web links can be found below. Please note that network scheduling capabilities with the defraggers below can depend on what version of the product that you purchase. For example, with Diskeeper, network scheduling can only be done using their server version (server version schedules other server and workstation versions). With PerfectDisk, workstation OR server versions can be used to schedule other servers and workstation versions. With SpeedDisk, you have to use Symantec's System Console to do network scheduling. This is provided free when you purchase SpeedDisk for server. If you don't purchase a server version of SpeedDisk, thenyou have to purchase the System Console.

PerfectDisk - www.raxco.com
Diskeeper - www.execsoft.com
SpeedDisk - www.symantec.com
O&O Defrag - www.oo-defrag.com
Ontrack - www.ontrack.com
Defrag Commander - www.winternals.com

- Greg/RaxcoSoftware

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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