Comments on: Disk Defragmentation http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/ The IT Crowd Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:47:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Dave http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Dave Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:27:16 +0000 http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=48#comment-207 [quote comment=""]Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don't really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =] Thanks, Louis =][/quote] I've come across another way to wake your PC to make this task run at 2AM. In most newer BIOS' there is a setting to turn on the PC at a set time. Different manufacturers call it different things, but it can be found in the power management area of your BIOS. [quote comment=""]Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don’t really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =]

Thanks, Louis =][/quote]

I’ve come across another way to wake your PC to make this task run at 2AM. In most newer BIOS’ there is a setting to turn on the PC at a set time. Different manufacturers call it different things, but it can be found in the power management area of your BIOS.

]]> By: Dave http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/comment-page-1/#comment-121 Dave Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:13:12 +0000 http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=48#comment-121 [quote comment=""]Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don't really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =] Thanks, Louis =][/quote] No it would not run. You would need to go into the Scheduled tasks area, open the task and click on the settings tab. Down at the bottom there is a check box under Power Management to "Wake the computer to run this task." I have never tried this option as my PC runs 24/7, so it may or may not work for you. Let me know how it turns out. Dave [quote comment=""]Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don’t really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =]

Thanks, Louis =][/quote]
No it would not run.

You would need to go into the Scheduled tasks area, open the task and click on the settings tab. Down at the bottom there is a check box under Power Management to “Wake the computer to run this task.”

I have never tried this option as my PC runs 24/7, so it may or may not work for you.

Let me know how it turns out.

Dave

]]> By: Louis http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/comment-page-1/#comment-120 Louis Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:32:40 +0000 http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=48#comment-120 Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don't really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =] Thanks, Louis =] Hi, This may sound like a daft question but when you program it to run at 2:00AM, does this run whilst the pc is turned off? Because i don’t really want to set it at 2:00AM if it only runs when the pc is on as at 2Am i will be asleep and the pc will be off haha =]

Thanks, Louis =]

]]> By: Dave http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Dave Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:51:35 +0000 http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=48#comment-7 [quote post="73"]I read an article recently which talked about fragmentation as a disease that silently killed the performance of a system. I think thats an apt analogy because its something that is easy to ignore, but it keeps growing over time to create such a big mess that it becomes difficult to for the HDD to do anything ‘on time’ which leads to the maddening lags and freezes.[/quote] I totally agree with the disease comment, I wish I had thought of it. [quote post="73"]I read an article recently which talked about fragmentation as a disease that silently killed the performance of a system. I think thats an apt analogy because its something that is easy to ignore, but it keeps growing over time to create such a big mess that it becomes difficult to for the HDD to do anything ‘on time’ which leads to the maddening lags and freezes.[/quote]
I totally agree with the disease comment, I wish I had thought of it.

]]> By: gotya http://www.davehildebrand.com/2007/08/03/disk-defragmentation/comment-page-1/#comment-6 gotya Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:29:30 +0000 http://www.davehildebrand.com/233/?p=48#comment-6 I read an article recently which talked about fragmentation as a disease that silently killed the performance of a system. I think thats an apt analogy because its something that is easy to ignore, but it keeps growing over time to create such a big mess that it becomes difficult to for the HDD to do anything 'on time' which leads to the maddening lags and freezes. I read an article recently which talked about fragmentation as a disease that silently killed the performance of a system. I think thats an apt analogy because its something that is easy to ignore, but it keeps growing over time to create such a big mess that it becomes difficult to for the HDD to do anything ‘on time’ which leads to the maddening lags and freezes.

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