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.

Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator

Registry Editing Has Been Disabled By Your Administrator
step by step procedure for fixing this problem

this problem occurs when computer gets infected with a virus, trojans.
when you type the command Regedit, you get message the Windows Registry
Editor being disabled.

there are so many methods to deal with this problem
if you are using windows xp i suggest to use this
1. Click Start, Run
2. Type GPEDIT.MSC and Press Enter
3. Go to the following location
User Configuration
Administrative Templates
System
4. In the Settings Window, find the option for "Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools" and double-click on it to change.
5. Select Disabled or Not Configured and choose OK
6. Close the Group Policy Editor and restart your computer
7. Try opening REGEDIT again
you can use symantec's tool to slove this
Use Symantec's tool to reset shell\open\command registry keys

download the UnHookExec.inf file to your desktop. Right-click on it and choose Install. Restart your computer and then try to open the Registry Editor.