Vista Questions

MRBARKER · 26 May 2007 at 23:40

Hello people

I use to have Windows XP , you could choose disk defragmenter volumes ie choose C or D . But with Vista you cannot choose which volume to disk defragmenter or can you ?

Also my other question is when you want to use a programme on Vista i get a pop up saying " Windows needs your permission to continue" can you disable this command ?

Ste99 · 26 May 2007 at 23:55

Click on Start and then your User Picture, then you should see the option 'Turn user account control on or off'.

brendy · 26 May 2007 at 23:59

MRBARKER said:
Hello people

I use to have Windows XP , you could choose disk defragmenter volumes ie choose C or D . But with Vista you cannot choose which volume to disk defragmenter or can you ?

Also my other question is when you want to use a programme on Vista i get a pop up saying " Windows needs your permission to continue" can you disable this command ?

the user acount control is configurable (from user accounts in control panel) and the defrag can be scheduled or run now, you need to enable schedule, let it start up then click on run now.

MRBARKER · 27 May 2007 at 00:56

brendy said:
the user acount control is configurable (from user accounts in control panel) and the defrag can be scheduled or run now, you need to enable schedule, let it start up then click on run now.

I have sorted the account configurable

Still cannot locate choose disk defragmenter volumes ie choose C or D ?

disk defragmenter still does whole pc , i want it just to give me the option just defragmenter volumes C or D

brendy · 27 May 2007 at 02:37

MRBARKER said:
I have sorted the account configurable

Still cannot locate choose disk defragmenter volumes ie choose C or D ?

disk defragmenter still does whole pc , i want it just to give me the option just defragmenter volumes C or D

If you just want to do one drive, then click start, run either open a command prompt or just type in "defrag c:" itll run off and do it for you.

MRBARKER · 27 May 2007 at 07:53

brendy said:
If you just want to do one drive, then click start, run either open a command prompt or just type in "defrag c:" itll run off and do it for you.

Thanks , i am thinking that XP is a better OS and better to use

V1N · 27 May 2007 at 09:04

brendy said:
If you just want to do one drive, then click start, run either open a command prompt or just type in "defrag c:" itll run off and do it for you.

I think you need to run the command prompt as administrator to run defrag, which is easily done.

press your start button, type CMD into the search pane, you'll see cmd.exe appear at the top of the list, right click and run as administrator.

Then, as above, just defrag c: or defrag d: etc

For more info, you could (as I do) use defrag c: -v

or to just analyse, use defrag c: -a -v

V1N.

MRBARKER · 27 May 2007 at 09:44

Sorted , still a bit of a nightmare , i still think XP is a better OS , you did not need to do this , with XP it gave you this option

TheVoice · 27 May 2007 at 10:26

Just get a better defrag application - neither XP's nor Vista's is particularly good. Something like Perfectdisk is far better.