Running Defrag

Operating the Disk Defragmenter

The following steps detail how to use Disk Defragmenter:

1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools and click Disk Defragmenter.
2. Select the volume(s) that you want to check for fragmentation.
3. Click Analyze and wait for the message box to find out whether or not you need to defragment.
4. If you need to defragment, click Defragment.
Note: While it?s possible to do other tasks while Disk Defragmenter is defragmenting a volume, it?s not recommended. This is because the defragmentation process may reduce overall system response time. It is recommended that you run Disk Defragmenter when you?ve finished using the computer for the day.
5. When the defragmentation process is completed, select the next volume (if any) to defragment, until all volumes are defragmented and consolidated.

no you can't, in order to run defrag in 2k or XP you have to be an administrator, or power user.

Do a search for autodefrag. It's a utility that will allow defrag to be run as a scheduled task.

Also Winternals makes a very reasonably priced enterprise defrag program called defrag manager
I use it myself, and am very pleased with it. You can schedule workstations to defrag from the console.
www.winternals.com

We use the at command to schedule the task. It will launch dfrg, but the end user must click the defragment button. So it requires a little education of end users on our part.
Heres the command we use:
at 11:00 /interactive /every:th "dfrg.msc"
The interactive switch is what allows it to run successfully.

No... I don't believe so.
However, you may be able to schedule Autodefrag.exe from the command line and schedule the system do it... but I'm not sure. If you can set it up using an Administrators acount that will work for sure.
Either way Autodefrag is awesome, and it's free.
Search for it... it could be www.autodefrag.com

Good luck.

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