Re: Writing Script for ScanDisk and Defrag

You could make it part of a user's logon script, assuming their account has rights to run defrag. Another option would be to make it part of a computer startup-script. Or as a variation, use a computer startup script to set the scheduled task to run one time only. You could then use a computer shutdown task to delete the job if you wanted.

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"JayBee" <JayBee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:2E9F79A2-BCC4-43AF-B5DC-CA179509280C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the info, but I need a script I can run once and it push to all
the computers on our network. We don't want to have to go to every pc and set
up a scheduled task. Any ideas?

"Al Dunbar" wrote:

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
> news:60D55911-5707-4B16-B650-06FE51D6E1DD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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