Disk defrag in Vista is not there?

[Jiannu]

I would defrag once a month well this month I right clicked C properties....tools....Drefragmentation...and nothing happens.....restarted still nothing.... I am wondering if i stopped a certain service in which disk defrag needs to operate as I am running selective start up? Wondering if I should just go to 3rd party ?

[VSEKH]

You need to turn on the Desktop Window Manager Session manager service to have the option to defrag your hard drive.

[Jiannu]

Originally Posted by VSEKH

You need to turn on the Desktop Window Manager Session manager service to have the option to defrag your hard drive.

Thanks for the quick reply. Just wondering if i should turn it on or use a 3rd party? What do you think?

Thanks!

[Jiannu]

ok so i checked the MSCONFIG and I didn;t see the service WINDOWS SESSION MANAGER service? I can't tell if it's started or not?

[VSEKH]

Originally Posted by Jiannu

ok so i checked the MSCONFIG and I didn;t see the service WINDOWS SESSION MANAGER service? I can't tell if it's started or not?

Go into Computer management and look for this service.

[VSEKH]

Originally Posted by Jiannu

Thanks for the quick reply. Just wondering if i should turn it on or use a 3rd party? What do you think?

Thanks!

I have been using Perfectdisk for the last few years as it has worked great for me. You might want to download an evaluation version of Perfectdisk 2008 and see it works for you.

[Jiannu]

ahhh ok, so i looked for this service and it is started....now what?

[VSEKH]

Originally Posted by Jiannu

ahhh ok, so i looked for this service and it is started....now what?

Go into windows explorer, right mouse click your hard drive partition, select properties, go to the tools tab, and click Defragment now within the defragmentation box.

[Jiannu]

tried that but it still does the same thing...i click on defrag and it shows the mouse pionter busy like it's doing something but nothing happens......

[VSEKH]

It should analyze all of the partitions, then allow you to select which partitions to defragment, then you click on okay to start the defragmentation. You will not see a gui interface like you did with the XP Pro version of the disk defragmenter.

[Jiannu]

Originally Posted by VSEKH

It should analyze all of the partitions, then allow you to select which partitions to defragment, then you click on okay to start the defragmentation. You will not see a gui interface like you did with the XP Pro version of the disk defragmenter.

I understand........but it wont do nothing, not even ask which partition i want to defrag?!?!

[VSEKH]

Originally Posted by Jiannu

I understand........but it wont do nothing, not even ask which partition i want to defrag?!?!

Try restarting the Desktop Window Manager Session manager service. If this does not help, try rebooting your system. (Before rebooting make sure the service is set to automatic)

[Jiannu]

It works.....Finally. I went to Run...MSCONFIG.....start normal...took off the selective crap start up and now it works!!!

Thanks again!

Now if I can only find the problem SP1 is not installing......

[VSEKH]

Glad the defrag is working for you now.

Regarding the installation of SP1, I had to remove the X-Fi soundcard from my system and uninstall all of Creative's software before it would install successfully. I installed the soundcard and the software afterwards, though I have to reboot a few times to get the sound working properly.

[Jiannu]

Originally Posted by VSEKH

Glad the defrag is working for you now.

Regarding the installation of SP1, I had to remove the X-Fi soundcard from my system and uninstall all of Creative's software before it would install successfully. I installed the soundcard and the software afterwards, though I have to reboot a few times to get the sound working properly.

I tried removing the card and drivers but still was getting same error. I will try it again after I reverted back to stock settings in MSCONFIG.......