Win2000: NTFS Defrag

[[Neo770]]

I am running windows 2000 Pro. I have heard that Win2K with NTFS can defrag all the time as a background prosses. If this is possible, how is it done?

[medo]

Hello,

Set it like continuos process and minimize window.
It will slowdown everything.

Medo

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[Axel]

Unless you are constantly deleting and installing software or have a certain group of viruses running which you don't know about - then you don't need to defrag more than once a month or so -

You have a slight risk however small of wrecking a portion of your files each time you defrag. FAT is much more prone to that problem than NTFS and there are those who argue that the file was probably unusable before the defrag, but it still happens.

Constant defraging - probably a bad idea.

You'd be better off setting up the NT scheduling service, and scheduling a defrag followed by a reboot Sunday mornings between 2 and 4 AM in the morning..... Add a page tool software package that monitors the uptime of your systems. This gets loaded on a little PC on the same subnet as the NT machine. All it does is ping the target I.P. from time to time to see if it's responding. If it fails to respond - it sends you a page through an attached modem line. I think one of the packages is serversalive or something like that. Note that you'll want to buy a UPS unit for the modem PC so brown-outs don't kill your paging tool -