Defrag Commander Personal Edition User’s Guide Winternals Software LP 3101 Bee Caves Road, Suite 150 Austin, Texas 78746 (512) 330-9130 (512) 330-9131 Fax www.winternals.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition Table of Contents Table of Contents ................................................................................ i 1 Introduction................................................................................... 1 2 Requirements................................................................................ 2 3 Licensing....................................................................................... 3 4 The Defrag Commander Window .......................
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 1 Introduction Welcome to Winternals Software’s Defrag Commander Personal Edition (PE). Defrag Commander PE is a defragmenter for Windows 2000® and Windows NT® - and can schedule the built-in defragmenters of Windows Me®, Windows 98®, Windows 95®, and optionally Windows 2000 systems - so that you can define arbitrarily complex defragmentation schedules for individual volumes, or for all the volumes on your computer.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 2 Requirements Defrag Commander PE Defrag requires Windows NT 4 with the Microsoft Task Scheduler (included with the off-line browsing package for Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher), or Windows 2000, Me, 98, or 95.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 3 Licensing Defrag Commander PE is licensed by seat, and one license permits the user to install and run the software on one system. It is the responsibility of the user to insure that the product is not distributed or installed in such a way that the software license is exceeded When Defrag Commander PE is initially launched you will be prompted to activate your product with a license key.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 4 The Defrag Commander Window The Defrag Commander PE window (Figure 4-1) lists each of the volumes present on your computer, as well as an "All Volumes" entry that represents all the volumes on the system. For each entry, Defrag Commander PE shows you the last time a scheduled defragmentation ran for that entry, the next time one is scheduled to run, as well as the file system format, size, and free space of the volume when applicable.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition When you create or edit a defragmentation schedule a property-sheet dialog box appears that shows you the log file, if any, from the last scheduled defragmentation of that entry. The second and third tabs in the dialog box let you specify defragmentation schedules and execution parameters that are used when a schedule executes.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 5 The Schedule Properties Dialog Box When you edit a defragmentation schedule a property-sheet dialog box appears with several pages. The LOG page lets you view the log of a computer's most recent execution of the schedule. The PRIORITY page of the property sheet allows you to set the priority of your defrag schedule.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 6 Scheduling a Defragmentation 1) Open Defrag Commander PE 2) Click on the entry that you want to schedule 3) Select Schedule Properties from the Action menu or from the rightclick context-menu 4) Click on the Schedule tab in the dialog box that appears and configure a schedule 5) Click on the Settings tab to configure when (e.g.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition Notes • If you are running Defrag Commander PE on Windows 2000 or NT you must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure. • To open Defrag Commander Personal Edition, click Start, point to Programs, point to Defrag Commander PE, and then click Defrag Commander PE.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 7 Frequently Asked Questions Why does the log file show that the defragmenter didn't do anything when there are fragmented files? If Defrag Commander PE has been configured to schedule the native Windows 2000 defragmenter (instead of using the Winternals defrag engine), a minimum amount of free space, usually around 10-15% of a volume's size, will be required to attempt to defragment files.
Defrag Commander Personal Edition roughly 125% of the size of the system's physical memory. To automatically defrag paging files and the Registry you may wish to install the Sysinternals freeware utility PageDefrag (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pagedefrag.shtml).
Defrag Commander Personal Edition 8 Technical Support • If you encounter a problem while using Defrag Commander, that requires technical support, please e-mail us at: support@winternals.com • You can also view our Frequently Asked Questions and download free updates from our web site at: http://www.winternals.
