Disk Defrag in Vista Other Vista Discussions Discuss Disk Defrag in Vista in the Windows Vista forums; Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -- I hate it !! Cannot see what it is doing, progress etc. Is there something one needs to activate?...

[DaBear]

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr -- I hate it !! Cannot see what it is doing, progress etc. Is there something one needs to activate?

[crabby]

If you run the command from the cmd prompt you can atleast see what it has completed... but otherwise, its third party defrag software

crabby

[DaBear]

Thanks crabby ---- luv my Vista , with a couple of exceptions- this being one of them

[Midway]

I was using Auslogic defragger but came across a discussion in another forum about Vista's defrag. Some people actually praised it and posted this link about the new defragger and it's improvements over the XP version:

http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/arc...g-is-cool.aspx

Since then I have been using Vista's defrag on a set schedule.

[crabby]

I agree, it has major benefits over XP, I just would really like any visualisation or timescale for the process

crabby

[Midway]

I can take it or leave it. When I used to defrag it would be at a time I wouldn't be around the computer so I wouldn't see it in action anyway.

Vista bought about a lot of changes so I accept this as another one

[DaBear]

I'm OK with it --- guess I am a little like crabby -- I got a thing about seeing whats going on.

[felix8406]

I got used to it - no map - and like the fact that I "can set it and forget it" (schedule). It runs in the background taking little resources and works well with superfetch to place the files that are used the most right up front. This permits Vista to access the most common files much faster.