Hello this is Daniel again from TwinBytes
and welcome to another edition of our computer how to videos.
We're going to show you how to automate the disk defragment program in windows XP.
If you're using Vista it's already automated,
and there's applications you can purchase for XP or any other
operating system, that will automate the process as well. Since XP already has the
application in there running it manually can be fine, that's just remembering to
do it, and to do it on a regular basis for the best performance. One thing you
can do is automate this procedure so you don't have to be going into this program
and launching the defrag and waiting for it to finish every time. So we're going
to show you how you can automate this.
You go through your Start menu into the Control Panel.
You want to go into scheduled tasks.
I already have something here, but we're going to ignore that and create a new one.
So you can right click anywhere in here.
Go to New. Scheduled Task.
We'll give it a name. Defrag or Defragment.
Really doesn't matter what you call it. It's just for your own reference.
You can right-click on it now, and go to properties.
So we can edit how this runs.
What we want to do is put in the location of the file.
So you want to type in the C drive, slash or C:\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C:
For the start in; You want to copy this first bit here.
Instead of retyping it you can just copy and paste it in there.
We don't need any comments. The name will already have your name, and
if you require a password for logging into your computer, you're going to want to go
in here and type in your password.
Otherwise it won't be able to run the application.
You don't need to change any of these things.
It does need to be enabled to run.
Otherwise if you uncheck that, it's not going to work.
Now we want to go into the schedule,
and you can choose to run daily, weekly, monthly, this is something daily is
probably the best. Weekly can be fine monthly is got to be a minimum.
Now, you could have it so it runs it start up or at log in every time you turn the
computer on its going to start running. But that's probably not the best thing,
since when you turn the computer on you want to start using it.
So I wouldn't recommend that. You're turning to computer on to start working.
So the last thing you need is something else to slow you down.
Best thing I find personally is to choose when it's idle. So you can choose that option.
This way it's only going to run when you're not using the computer.
You can set for what amount of time you want the computer to be idled before
before it starts to run. The default is probably fine, but you can also edit
that time if you wish, to whatever time, and if we go over to the Settings tab,
there's only one other thing here that you might want to really change,
and that's to stop the task if the computer ceases to be idle. So that means once
you come back to the computer and you touch the keyboard or the mouse,
you're starting to actively use the computer again. It's going to recognize that you
want to continue working and you need full power again to work with.
It's going to stop that task automatically. After the allotted time that we set here,
on the schedule, it will start again. Continue where it left off. The next time
you step away from the computer for six minutes in this case.
That's probably all you need to do.
You could play with some of the other settings but they're not necessary.
We can go ahead and apply this, and OK. Now this task that we just created,
when we don't touch the keyboard or mouse for six minutes,
it's going to start up.
Then the next time you touch the keyboard or mouse again,
it's going to pause; and it'll do that forever.
There is no end date and your computer will always be defragged
and will be running a lot better than it was.
Hope this helps. To help me out, please leave your comments or put a
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Thank you very much! Bye for now.