Manage the scheduled defrag job centrally
Starting with Windows Vista the defragmentation utility is scheduled to run on all drives once per week. The defrag is done in the middle of the night but if the machine is not on at that time, the defrag will start after next power on.
Anyway, you can disable, change the schedule or in other ways modify the task centrally by for instance deploying a script file by using GPO:s. The following command line disables the scheduled defrag task from running.
schtasks /change /tn "microsoft\windows\defrag\ScheduledDefrag" /disable
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Andreas Stenhall
I'm Andreas Stenhall and my work passion is the Windows client in combination with Microsoft 365 security and management services. I do consulting, I produce and teach my own courses, I lecture and I present and my formal work title is prinicipal workplace advisor and architect at Coligo in Stockholm, Sweden. I'm also proud to be an Microsoft MVP since 2009. I have presented at BUILD, TechEd in the US and Europe and regional TechDays. Follow me on twitter @AndreasStenhall.
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The Vista defragger has its limitations. I personally dont like it even as much as the XP defragger which atleast had a GUI. I have changed to the full version of Diskeeper which has real time automatic defrag. Its far better than any other defrag program I have tried.