Hi All I have a request to research a solution that would automatically defragment the drives of production workstations on a schedule. We have a number of Windows XP machines have never been defragmented and are suffering in performance. I’m open to suggestions ranging from third party utilities to deploying a reoccurring task in Task Scheduler that would run silently on locked down workstations. Thanks in Advance

Hi... we pushed a bat file that creates a scheduled task on all workstations to defrag at a given interval... with somthing similar to this: schtasks.exe /create /sc weekly /d SUN /tn defrag /tr "c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe c: -f" /st 08:00:00 /sd 01/20/2007 /ru "system"" or you could use a vbs script to accomplish the same thing... or you could even create a re-occuring advertisment in sms and just run this command: defrag c: /f and run it hidden, with no user intervention and you would accomplish the same thing... lots of options really... hope this helps!! ~Shadster

We have a scheduled wake-up (WOL) that runs these batch files once a monthBatch 1:: Prepare Disk :: check disk echo y|chkdsk /F /I /C shutdow -rBatch 2:: defrag c: drive defrag.exe c: Hope this helpsGG-Man8