Windows Defrag running in idle?

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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #21

    Ibaxx said:
    i have triggered it for whent it is one minute idle! wating for on imidiatly.

    i think that should be enough!
    i have tried auslogics defrag meanwhile! when i set this defrag to run in idle in 1 minute, it works!

    but auslogics defrag did not use the prefetch and superfetch features

    is an entry from the moment i have startet it manual.

    regards
    Ingo
    Is it also scheduled in "task scheduler" or has it its own definition of idle?
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    7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #22

    thats a good question!

    i have to check!
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  3. Posts : 6,330
    Multi-Boot W7_Pro_x64 W8.1_Pro_x64 W10_Pro_x64 +Linux_VMs +Chromium_VM
       #23

    One possibility is you have "large" files on your HD that do not get defragmented by Windows defrag.
    The Windows 7 defragmentation tool skips files larger than 64MB, to avoid useless IO activities.
    Source:
    Defragmentation issues windows 7 - Microsoft Answers
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    Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bits 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
       #24

    DavidW7ncus said:
    One possibility is you have "large" files on your HD that do not get defragmented by Windows defrag.
    The Windows 7 defragmentation tool skips files larger than 64MB, to avoid useless IO activities.
    Source:
    Defragmentation issues windows 7 - Microsoft Answers
    Not quite true
    "the defragmentation algorithm was changed (from Windows XP) to ignore pieces of a file that are larger than 64MB."

    Read all about it on Disk Defragmentation
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  5. Posts : 10,200
    MS Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-bit
       #25

    Going back.
    I don't know what the OP is doing,
    but contig can be run manually, automatically, scheduled or howerver,
    Contig is a program. Programs can be scheduled to run.

    Defrag.exe is a program which can be scheduled to run.

    Defrag.exe can be run manually.

    I've defragged in all possible ways. My preference is to run contig manually, which will defrag large file pieces.

    However, the defrag.exe is quite adequate.
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