Vista's Disk Defrag - ick
Don't like it. It seems like every generation of disk defragmenter gives you less and less info about what it's doing. In vista you don't get ANYTHING other than the little circling cursor when you pass over it to show it's running and a message telling you it might take a while.
Don't like.
Don't like.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
Ah, the Macification of the OS.
one of the biggest and consistent complaints we had from users (broad sample here from home users to experienced IT Pros) in the past was that a vast majority of them had no idea what the detailed fragmentation statistics they saw meant. The Windows XP graphical view also had some limitations and inaccuracies that prevented it from being included in Windows Vista. If you really want to keep a close eye on fragmentation, I’d recommend using the command-line tool Defrag.exe.
It's not me, it's someone else.
It's more like a tachometer than has a 1 and a 0.GORDON wrote:So it's like a generic "Check engine" light in a car? I hate those. I want to know exactly which sensor is flagging an alarm, and I want to know without an expensive car diagnostic machine.
1 = Engine is on.
0 = Engine is off.
That's useful.
It's not me, it's someone else.
defrag.exe with the -v flag apparently gives you detailed information about the defragmentation.TheCatt wrote:Ah, the Macification of the OS.
one of the biggest and consistent complaints we had from users (broad sample here from home users to experienced IT Pros) in the past was that a vast majority of them had no idea what the detailed fragmentation statistics they saw meant. The Windows XP graphical view also had some limitations and inaccuracies that prevented it from being included in Windows Vista. If you really want to keep a close eye on fragmentation, I’d recommend using the command-line tool Defrag.exe.
After the defrag finishes running.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren
That used to happen to me a lot on my Media Center, only it would show some recorded shows that were fubar'd. One I upgraded to MCE '05 it took care of it.TheCatt wrote:I ran my XP defrag today.
At the end it said "Could not defragment some files," then gave my a button to click to see the files. I clicked and a little window popped up.
It was blank.
"... and then I was forced to walk the Trail of Tears." - Elizabeth Warren