JSI Tip 6260. StartDefrag will schedule a Windows 2000 defrag and it is free for personal use.

Jerold Schulman

January 23, 2003

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Download StartDefrag to facilitate scheduling a Windows 2000 disk defragmentation.

"Welcome. There are four ways to launch this program from the command line:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. "StartDefrag.exe" defragments all local partitions.2. "StartDefrag.exe c d" defragments specified partition(s).3. "StartDefrag.exe -schedule" adds program to local scheduled tasks.4. "StartDefrag.exe -configure" starts in configuration mode.Note: If you choose not to use the provided scheduling feature, you may use          the Windows task scheduler (Start Menu, Accessories, System Tools) instead.To deploy in a networked environment:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1. Install or place StartDefrag.exe into a shared folder.*  Log file will be disabled if folder does not have write permissions.2. Configure schedule and log file options, and save them.3. Run the schedule command line option on desired machines.* Network users cannot reconfigure log file maximum size."



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