Disk Defragmenter FAQ

re: Disk Defragmenter FAQ

Efrain — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:39:23 GMT

Left Vista defragmenter running all night. Finally, I had to stop it simply because I had no idea where it was: close to finishing? It ran over 14 hours. Perhaps I stopped it just seconds before fully finishing, but that's exactly the reason why I didn't stop it before. It seems to me that some indicator is needed, even more convinced now after reading the posts here.

yavcht123456789: I totally agree with you.

re: Disk Defragmenter FAQ

klaus_b — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:04:09 GMT

i've build a winforms usercontrol in C# .NET 2.0 to be hosted in IE for different maintenance jobs similar to the Live Clean Up Center.

I see the MS folks show the progress for disk defragmentation on the UI, so i thought there is a API to access the defragmentation

with a wrapper or PInvoke. After searching the web up and down for a documentation about the windows defrag API, without a for me usable result, i try to use the built-in defrag.exe. But this piece of software dont give any progress on the screen while running, so output redirection is'nt possible. On this blog now i read why.

So please tell me, is there any undocumented API access to the defrag.exe?

re: Disk Defragmenter FAQ

Kittyba — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:27:10 GMT

The visual display should of been kept, hidden under a "display visual map" button or some such.

Or better idea - make the graphical display a Vista Ultimate Extra - PLEASE PLEASE

re: Disk Defragmenter FAQ

yavcht123456789 — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:36:51 GMT

Can a developer really be so out of touch with their users! Looks like they can. It would have been simple to have a graphical display with hide button and to add options to defrag particular drives etc.

Or maybe it was just cheaper and quicker to do it this way - and try and persuade us they have done a good job......

Two new questions in the Disk Defrag FAQ

The Filing Cabinet — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:25:58 GMT

We've added a couple new questions in our Disk Defrag FAQ to cover questions about defrag running at

Vista's Powerless Power Users: Someone Neutered My Defrag!

Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET - Windows Vista Edition — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:21:11 GMT

On Monday, Microsoft’s file team posted a Q&amp;A about Windows Defragmenter. I’ve needed an excuse to...