Windows Disk Defragmenter was turned into a very stripped down utility in Windows Vista and 7. you’re free to alsochange the defragment schedule.
But that’s all you’re able to do with the Defragmenter app.
To dig deeper, we need to head over to the command prompt.
To dig deeper, open command prompt in Administrative mode.
To use the defrag tool, just enter defrag followed by the parameters you want to use.
As usual, you might view the command’s help file by entering defrag /?.
Then to use defrag, just enter the following, like you would with many command apps.
Underneath, the defrag tool will tell you if it thinks you gotta defrag now or not.
If so, just enter defrag /C and let defrag take over.
Remember to not terminate the window before the defrag is finished, as this will kill the process.
