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Windows XP scheduled tasks and defragmenting?

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Mar 15, 20261721 views
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I am trying to set a seduled task to defrag my HDD on a regular basis and following the guide on http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/tips/gehrke1.mspx. It does not work. That process only brings a DOS window which does nothing (well it displays some text about the Microsoft def…

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dfrg.msc vs defrag.exe is the GUI frontend to the backend tool. What you're essentially doing is invoking the wrong thing, since only takes command line arguments. Solution Just use the following for the command path: You shouldn't need to specify a…

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