Machine keep defrag the drive even after disable the task.

mr kp · 31 Dec 2015

Hi,

I have several machines that I need to disable the defragmentation. Due to the way backup software operate, defragmentation create a large snapshot and a few of them are over 150GB.
Here is what I have done so far and without luck, the drive still being defragged.

- Disable the scheduled task via the gui
- Disable the task via task scheduler
- Disable the service
- Add registry to disable boot time optimization
- Rename defrag.exe to defrag.old

Any thought and advice?
Thank you in advance.

Ranger4 · 31 Dec 2015

Welcome to the Forum.

Have you tried the following:

Click the Start Button & in the search slot, type Computer Management & hit Enter, when it opens select Services & Applications, then click on Services, then scroll down the list until you see Disc Defragmenter, double click on that & a window will open & you will see Start Up Type with a drop down bar alongside, click on that & select Disable. Then click on Apply to set the change.

Post back if you have any problems.

mr kp · 31 Dec 2015

Thank you for the quick reply. Yes I have disable the service

torchwood · 31 Dec 2015

Do you have any OEM or optimiser progs on your comp, it might not be just MS.

Roy

mr kp · 31 Dec 2015

Nothing I could think of and it happened to serveral machines on a several area/location. What really got me stuck is I even rename defrag.exe to defrag.old. It still got defragged.

Layback Bear · 31 Dec 2015

Are you using any 3rd party Defrag tool or system optimizer program?
Are you using any IObit programs?

mr kp · 31 Dec 2015

No to all questions. The machine is fairly bare bone. Only business applications. EDIT: I also attached the list of software installed on one of the machine in question

Ranger4 · 01 Jan 2016

Adding to the other members that have offered suggestions, could your problem be caused by one of the programs you have installed on your computer. I notice you have some programs that many users would not be familiar with & I am certainly one of those. The programs that I am referring to are:

Screen Connect Client.
Storage Craft Shadow Protect.

I have had a look at these on the web & it seems they each have a user forum so it might be worth checking that out.

torchwood · 01 Jan 2016

Please dissable Lenovo LBAI, its thier Bios updater tool, and see what happens.

Roy

mr kp · 04 Jan 2016

Ranger4 said:

Adding to the other members that have offered suggestions, could your problem be caused by one of the programs you have installed on your computer. I notice you have some programs that many users would not be familiar with & I am certainly one of those. The programs that I am referring to are:

Screen Connect Client.
Storage Craft Shadow Protect.

I have had a look at these on the web & it seems they each have a user forum so it might be worth checking that out.

Screen Connect Client is for remote control. I have check on their forum no luck.
Storagecraft Shadow Protect is a backup software. The forum suggest me to enable process monitoring event which I did. No process logged that is out of ordinary.