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BetterRed · 03-09-2015, 04:52 AM

@chaley - this afternoon I checked 3 Win 7 systems at my local community centre. Each has the standard 01:00 hrs on Wednesday setting, they report the most recent defrag occurred last Wednesday (Mar 4th) at 08:20, 09:05 and 09:41 - which is a few minutes after they were booted.

So 5 of 5 systems I've checked down here do the defrag as per schedule, on my two boxes daily at 11:00am, and on the other three on Wednesdays soon after boot up.

Another way to disable auto defrag -- other than unchecking the Run on a schedule in the Defragger -- is to disable the service. I've seen that on a few systems, my guess is that Windows was installed like that at the factory. Or one could add a policy into the GP settings - that's a bit trickier, there were some videos at technet that showed how.

I've yet to see a brand name OEM Windows 7 install that IMO ought not be redone - a) to get rid of vendor bloat and free trials, b) to enable services that IMO ought not be disabled - indexing, link tracking, auto-defrag... etc.

I always encourage friends to buy a full Windows license and reinstall themselves or ask me to do it for them - under Australian law that won't invalidate warranty. Often as not the retailer will throw in the full license for not very much - eg Win7 Pro for $50.

But I suspect you know all that

BR

03-09-2015, 04:52 AM	#7
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,779 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@chaley - this afternoon I checked 3 Win 7 systems at my local community centre. Each has the standard 01:00 hrs on Wednesday setting, they report the most recent defrag occurred last Wednesday (Mar 4th) at 08:20, 09:05 and 09:41 - which is a few minutes after they were booted. So 5 of 5 systems I've checked down here do the defrag as per schedule, on my two boxes daily at 11:00am, and on the other three on Wednesdays soon after boot up. Another way to disable auto defrag -- other than unchecking the Run on a schedule in the Defragger -- is to disable the service. I've seen that on a few systems, my guess is that Windows was installed like that at the factory. Or one could add a policy into the GP settings - that's a bit trickier, there were some videos at technet that showed how. I've yet to see a brand name OEM Windows 7 install that IMO ought not be redone - a) to get rid of vendor bloat and free trials, b) to enable services that IMO ought not be disabled - indexing, link tracking, auto-defrag... etc. I always encourage friends to buy a full Windows license and reinstall themselves or ask me to do it for them - under Australian law that won't invalidate warranty. Often as not the retailer will throw in the full license for not very much - eg Win7 Pro for $50. But I suspect you know all that BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-09-2015 at 05:12 AM.