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tastyratz

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  1. I wanted to reply and update that I have resolved my problem and have pleasantly been working successfully with defraggler. When setting up a scheduled task and copying it to other computers it does not work or run due to permissions and security. I am an admin on all machines but setting it up in my name would result in the task actually not starting (I thought it was). My batch file for install and deploy now consists of the following: call dfsetup121.exe /S copy "Idle Defraggler Defragmentation.job" C:\windows\tasks /y schtasks /change /tn "Idle Defraggler Defragmentation" /ru system By modifying the user account from the terminal to ntsystem it allows it to run with admin priv. properly on every machine without failure. I will now be rolling this out on a larger scale. Hopefully this information helps someone else.
  2. I just wanted to post another update. it has now been weeks since deployment. I checked number of fragments and looked at the file types: the first 2 users I looked at? Tiana 37% and 4,854 fragmented files Lisa 41% and 3,452 files When I look at the files there were a lot of them that were left overs from the initial deployment windows update (silverlight install files, other installer related files, etc) and general use files (outlook.ost, office program files, etc). What do I take from this? its been pretty much doing just about nothing. My solution would not be to run ccleaner or similar because that would only mask the fact that there are many fragmented files, all of which defraggler has not defragmented. This is not limited to a specific directory. My scheduled task is also set to retry for 400 minutes. I can confirm the task is launching and I do see df running in the background. The users are also local admin if that helps. Unless someone else can think of a reason for this to be doing prettymuch absolutely nothing I will probably be looking at ultradefrag next or similar to find what I need. It's too bad defraggler does not have a good idle time defragmentation scheme for automated maintenance built in.
  3. I have only been logging test user % fragmentation. I can start to log the count if the first number could be false, I was just thinking it was hand in hand. I use the command "C:\Program Files\utilities\Defraggler\df.exe" C: /ts These are my notes: I do not have starting fragmentation data Last week Thursday Tiana 34% fragmentation thurs afternoon Lisa 40% frag Friday Tiana 34% lisa 39% Anita34% Pat 36% This week Monday: tiana 35% Anita 35% Lisa (out) pat 37% Thursday: tiana % 36 anita % 36 lisa (out) pat % 37 Also we currently do not have any vista machines, and windows 7 deployment has not yet started but will need to be compatible.
  4. I came here because I am experiencing the same problem. No good similar threads I could see with a search or solutions? I saw threads where it might leave a few files behind, but not appear to increase fragmentation. These are all very light office users... outlook & word on their computers that's it. Starting fragmentation was 34-40% according to defraggler. I am scheduling jobs on machines in a corporate environment utilizing df.exe. I set it up to run whenever the machine is idle for 5 minutes or more, and to stop when it is no longer idle. I have been setup 4 test users on different machines, and so far when I check on them it appears that the fragmentation goes up 1-2% every day! What gives? These are short scheduled jobs... I need resident background defragmentation that runs non invasively on machines shut down every night. Central deployment without manual intervention is a must, these are just test users. Fixing it manually wont work for a rollout. I am testing on 4 before rolling out to a 150 machine site. If the site tests well we may roll it out to over 1000 machines. Could be the beginning of a beautiful success story but so far just missing the success part
  5. For those of us who schedule a task, a minimum fragmentation threshold option should be implemented. That way we can avoid defragmenting a drive at all which has minimal fragmentation.
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