Vista disk defrag question

I don't see the answer here to a question I have. I'm curious as to why
the Disk Defragmenter runs on it's own, separate from the time I have
scheduled? Whenever I look at the last time it ran, it's always at some
random time not scheduled.


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"Gordon" <> wrote:

>And in answer to your question - Vista defrag runs automatically when the
>machine is idle. There's no need to schedule it at all.
>
>See here:
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942092

And that "runs automatically" is at 1am every Wednesday.

It is conceivable that someone might want to use the scheduler to run
it at a different time, or more frequently.

"Manny Weisbord" <> wrote in message
news:...
> "Gordon" <> wrote:
>
>>And in answer to your question - Vista defrag runs automatically when the
>>machine is idle. There's no need to schedule it at all.
>>
>>See here:
>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942092
>
> And that "runs automatically" is at 1am every Wednesday.
>
> It is conceivable that someone might want to use the scheduler to run
> it at a different time, or more frequently.


Err no. Read the article. Look under "More Information". Defrag runs ALL THE
TIME when the machine is idle.

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"Gordon" <> wrote:

>"Manny Weisbord" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> "Gordon" <> wrote:
>>
>>>And in answer to your question - Vista defrag runs automatically when the
>>>machine is idle. There's no need to schedule it at all.
>>>
>>>See here:
>>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942092
>>
>> And that "runs automatically" is at 1am every Wednesday.
>>
>> It is conceivable that someone might want to use the scheduler to run
>> it at a different time, or more frequently.
>
>
>Err no. Read the article. Look under "More Information". Defrag runs ALL THE
>TIME when the machine is idle.

Err no. Read the article. Look under "More Information".

I'll quote it here for you since you seem to be having trouble reading
it elsewhere, Mr. Know-it-all:

"In Windows Vista, there are many improvements in the defrag engine
and in the manageability of fragmentation. By default, Windows Vista
uses Task Scheduler to automatically keep the hard disk defragmented."

"You can now use Task Scheduler to schedule defragmentation.
Therefore, you do not have to manually start defragmentation. By
default, a task is created and is set to run at 1 A.M. on every
Wednesday. If the computer is turned off or if the task does not run
at the scheduled time, the task will run the next time that the
computer is idle."