Create Your Own Windows 7 Style Automatic Defrag in Windows XP

In Windows 7 it’s set to run at 1am every Wednesday as a low priority background task.

There are a couple of ways to access Disk Defragmenter in XP.

In the Local Disk Properties screen poke the Tools tab, then Defragment Now.

One of the cool things available in XP Defrag when analyzing your disk is the GUI.

Open Control Panel in Classic View and open Scheduled Tasks.

Now enter the following into the File name field and click Open.

see to it to select Weekly and click Next.

For the Start time enter 1:00 AM, run every week, and for the day select Wednesday.

Note: This is what the Windows 7 default schedule is.

The default user name will automatically be entered, and you’ll need to enter the correct password.

When it runs, the Command Prompt screen will open and run an analysis and complete the defrag process.

You won’t see it running via the GUI but it’s running in the background.

If you open up Task Manager you’ll see the process running.

That is all there is to it.