Can't View Defrag Progress

tmansc · External Since: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 7

I can't find a way to view the progress of defragmenter in Vista RC1. Is
there a way?

drw1304 · External Since: Oct 13, 2006 Posts: 4

I too wish I could see the progress. It may sound weird but I miss watching
it do something, you almost wonder if it is doing anything at all.

pippin · External Since: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 171

I think this is the biggest but report for Vista most are missing a GUI with
defrag. in Vista - I like this not to watch the paint dry but to have some
sort of visual to know what level has been reached plus see the finished
result - sadly it is not there Sad

3rd party software may win this bit of
Vista.

"drw1304" wrote:

> I too wish I could see the progress. It may sound weird but I miss watching
> it do something, you almost wonder if it is doing anything at all.
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Spirefm · External Since: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 283

Yea, but I'm one of those guys that like to peer through a fence and watch
workmen on a building site. Colin

"Robert Moir" wrote:

> drw1304 wrote:
> > I too wish I could see the progress. It may sound weird but I miss
> > watching it do something, you almost wonder if it is doing anything
> > at all.
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> This might explain things
> http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/pages/440717.aspx
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> turns out that progress meter that people liked to watch was actually
> meaningless and inaccurate.
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> If you want to watch something move while a defrag takes place, I recommend
> putting on a movie and not obsessing over a low level disk operation that
> shouldn't need us to worry about it.
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> --
> Robert Moir
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> www.robertmoir.com
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Andrew · External Since: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 125

I am trying AusLogics Disk Defrag program . It has graphics progress future,
and it works in Vista. (I am using Vista RC1)

"tmansc" wrote:

> I can't find a way to view the progress of defragmenter in Vista RC1. Is
> there a way?

Telstar · External Since: Sep 09, 2006 Posts: 55

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:11:01 -0700, tmansc
<tmansc DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I can't find a way to view the progress of defragmenter in Vista RC1. Is
>there a way?

"It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

rjaffeux · External Since: Jul 23, 2009 Posts: 1

Well weather it's accurate or not i would like to be able to see
something. I understand that one wasn't right but with all the added
things these days you would think they could make it right. or at least
some kind of meter. I wouldn't mind trying a different program but it's
annoying when they program is already on the computer and it doesn't do
what we all want. They should make it to make people happy.

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rjaffeux