Vista defrag event log

Modify the Registry. Click Save. Please Note: The backup file is on the Desktop and named backup. We can simply restore the registry by double-clicking the backup. If so, please right click on the values and select " Delete " to remove them. Remove and reinstall device. In the Device Manager , click the Scan for hardware changes button on the toolbar and let it scan your computer. Meanwhile, please involve your hardware Manufacturer for the further support of their product as well. Office Office Exchange Server.

Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English. Fortunately, running disk defragmenter from the command prompt you will need Admin rights , gives you greater control of which volume or volumes to defrag, allows you to run analysis and view detailed reports. To view disk defragmenter available command line options, open a command prompt and enter the following command:.

Attempts to consolidate only fragments smaller than 64MB. Attempts to consolidate all file fragments, regardless of their size. The defragmentation and analysis output is more detailed. An example output, shown below, runs analysis on the C: drive with verbose mode:. As you can see, a more detailed analysis is shown with information at the bottom indicating that the volume is not fragmented.

A similar report will be displayed after fragmenting a volume. How come it says I need administrative permissions even though I'm using an administrator user. I need help.

As you might expect, the scheduled task just runs this command line tool which you can see by looking in Scheduled Tasks. Interestingly, it uses an undocumented switch of -i. I can't find any info on this — does anyone know what this switch does? Are there any other undocumented controls for this program? I believe this is a new switch with Vista. Right click the "Command Prompt" button and select "Run as administrator". A command prompt window will appear. Everything you run in this Window will be run with administrator rights.

This is when asked for admin. If you want to use the command prompt defrag, right click the cmd executable type cmd into the search box in your start menu and click Run As Administrator. You will need to enter an admin password. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

Hi, I noticed something funny on my laptop last night. Dana Cline - MVP. I'm not sure if you can adjust this or not I've found that for Vista, Diskeeper is a good solution, and you can certainly adjust it there. I enjoy seeing my defrag work, and Vista's defrag took that away from us. Hi, I'm going to give PerfectDisk a go as that comes highly recommended.