Re: Writing Script for ScanDisk and Defrag

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Running defrag as a scheduled task makes sense; fragementation occurs
naturally on a healthy volume, so there is really no need to know what is
going on with defrag unless it reports a serious disk error. But, as far as
I know, any conditions that CHKDSK might resolve would be better known about
than simply "fixed".


/Al

"Jeffery Hicks [MVP]" <jhicks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you have XP and later clients you can use DEFRAG.EXE from the command
line. You can't run it remotely. You might try setting up a scheduled
task to do it. You can do that remotely using SCHTASKS.EXE. You could do
the same thing with CHKDSK.EXE.

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"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I need help figuring out a good script to write for running ScanDisk and
Defrag on our network. It would need to be able to run on all the pc's.
Can
I use it in Group Policy? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.



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