Enabling Automatic Defragmentation

In the previous post of Defragmentation i presented you a detailed view of fragmentation,advantages and how to do fragmentation.

now here is a way of enabling automatic defragmentation,it makes your work simpler and saves your time while you been working on other tasks.

From the Control Panel

    *Start > Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance.

    *Select Scheduled Tasks and double-click on ‘Add Scheduled Task'.

    *when this opens in a new window click on the Next button and then Browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32.

    *Click defrag.exe and then the Open button. 

    *Now give it a name and set the frequency with which the defrag must run. Follow it to Finish.

    *An icon with the name you have given appears in the right pane. Right click on the icon and select Properties. 

    *In the Run text box, you can add the drive you want to defragment like this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe d:

    *Click the OK button and the task will be executed at the scheduled date and time.

From Registry.

we can also shedule this by registry,but you should be a bit extra careful as you are dealing with registry.

    *click Start Menu -->Run. 

    *Type "regedit" and hit Enter.

    *In the registry editor select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.

    *Navigate to Software\ Microsoft\ Dfrg\ BootOptimizeFunction.

    *In the right pane check ‘enable' is present or else create a new one by right clicking in the right pane and select New-> String value.

    Type in Enable.

    *Now double-click on Enable to bring up a box where you can change the values(set a value).

    *Type ‘N' to disable the automatic defrag program or ‘Y' to enable the disk fragmentation to happen automatically.

    *close the wizard and restart the windows.