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Does anyone know if it is possible to schedule W2k disk defragmenter in W2k w/o a third party product?

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by ann777

See my previous post on this:
https://www.techrepublic.com/forumqa/thread_detail.jhtml?thread_id=74308&src=search

One of the limitations of Defrag in Windows 2000 is that cannot be scheduled or scripted, for the rest of limitations, read :

MSKB Q227463

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us; Q227463&id=227463&SD=MSKB

You can use an 'AutoDefrag' utility to launch Defrag from the command line/batch file which can be obtained from :

http://www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/

You can copy it to Winnt folder and go to Start --> Run --> C:\WINNT\AutoDeFrag.exe C:

You can use also try 'contig' ; a freeware utility from System Internals which takes a slightly different approach:
http://sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/contig.shtml

by delightful deb

The built-in defragger isn't really designed to run scheduled. It was
intended to be run interactively and it only allows defragging of one
disk volume at a time. However, there are scripts available at
www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/ that you can use to schedule the Win2k
built-in defragger.

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