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How to schedule to perform defragment and hibernation?

E

Eric

Flightless Bird
I would like to set schedule to perform defragment? after that, make XP with
SP3 into hibernation automatically.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions
Eric
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Eric wrote:

> I would like to set schedule to perform defragment? after that, make XP with
> SP3 into hibernation automatically.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

In Task Scheduler, add an event to run:

- Defrag

Run: defrag.exe <d> -v

This runs the included defrag tool in Windows. <d> is the drive letter of
whatever drive you want to defrag. Only 1 drive can be specified at a time,
so if you have multiple drives to defrag then you need multiple events: one
event to handle the defrag of each drive. I would suggest having the
defrags for different drives scheduled to run on a different day so they
don't overlap. Of course, you could install a 3rd party defragger, like
Auslogic's Defrag or Piriform's Defraggler, and read their manual on what
command line to use in a scheduled task that you define.

- Hibernate

You already forgot about asking for this in your prior post a week ago in
this same newsgroup? Do you even bother reading replies to your posts? You
replied to the thread but you forgot about it already? Why should we waste
time answering you again?

Go look at the following article which gave you the commands you can put
into a .bat file that you then run using a scheduled task:

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...0c09e645bf1/4cfe8fcb188363df#4cfe8fcb188363df
(short URL: http://tinyurl.com/29arl4n)

Since you'll be using a .bat file to run the commands to hibernate, you
could also put the defrag command for your drive(s) in the same batch file
and just have one event to run the .bat file.
 
E

Eric

Flightless Bird
Thank you very muh for suggestions
I would like to perform defragment, after that hibernate XP,
I know how to hibernate XP individually from my past post on this forum,
but I don't know how to activate hibernation, once the process of defragment
is done,
and it cannot be schedule, because the time required for defragment cannot
be estimated.
Do you have any suggestions on how to activate hibernation
after the process of defragment is done?

Another issue is that this forum is no longer support email alert, so it is
very inconvenient to
look for my past post. I may need to go back at least 10-15 pages for my
post on a few day ago.
Do you have any suggestions on how to easily look up my past posts?

Thanks you very much for any suggestions
Eric

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> Eric wrote:
>
> > I would like to set schedule to perform defragment? after that, make XP with
> > SP3 into hibernation automatically.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> In Task Scheduler, add an event to run:
>
> - Defrag
>
> Run: defrag.exe <d> -v
>
> This runs the included defrag tool in Windows. <d> is the drive letter of
> whatever drive you want to defrag. Only 1 drive can be specified at a time,
> so if you have multiple drives to defrag then you need multiple events: one
> event to handle the defrag of each drive. I would suggest having the
> defrags for different drives scheduled to run on a different day so they
> don't overlap. Of course, you could install a 3rd party defragger, like
> Auslogic's Defrag or Piriform's Defraggler, and read their manual on what
> command line to use in a scheduled task that you define.
>
> - Hibernate
>
> You already forgot about asking for this in your prior post a week ago in
> this same newsgroup? Do you even bother reading replies to your posts? You
> replied to the thread but you forgot about it already? Why should we waste
> time answering you again?
>
> Go look at the following article which gave you the commands you can put
> into a .bat file that you then run using a scheduled task:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micr...0c09e645bf1/4cfe8fcb188363df#4cfe8fcb188363df
> (short URL: http://tinyurl.com/29arl4n)
>
> Since you'll be using a .bat file to run the commands to hibernate, you
> could also put the defrag command for your drive(s) in the same batch file
> and just have one event to run the .bat file.
> .
>
 
H

HeyBub

Flightless Bird
Eric wrote:



>
> Another issue is that this forum is no longer support email alert, so
> it is very inconvenient to
> look for my past post. I may need to go back at least 10-15 pages for
> my post on a few day ago.
> Do you have any suggestions on how to easily look up my past posts?

This "forum" never did support email alerts. Inasmuch as you're using the
horrid web interface, you'll have to live with its eccentricities,
limitations, and blunders. I have no idea as to how to find a prior post in
whatever web interface you're using.

If, however, you were using a civilized news reader - Outlook Express,
Thunderbird, Forte Agent, etc., you'd invoke the "Find" command.
 
E

Eric

Flightless Bird
I put following codes into batch file, but when I run it, defragment seems
not to perform at all, XP go hibernation within a second.
Do you have any suggestions on what wrong the code is?
Thank you very much for any suggestions
Eric

C:/WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe z: -v
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate

"VanguardLH" wrote:

> Eric wrote:
>
> > I would like to set schedule to perform defragment? after that, make XP with
> > SP3 into hibernation automatically.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> In Task Scheduler, add an event to run:
>
> - Defrag
>
> Run: defrag.exe <d> -v
>
> This runs the included defrag tool in Windows. <d> is the drive letter of
> whatever drive you want to defrag. Only 1 drive can be specified at a time,
> so if you have multiple drives to defrag then you need multiple events: one
> event to handle the defrag of each drive. I would suggest having the
> defrags for different drives scheduled to run on a different day so they
> don't overlap. Of course, you could install a 3rd party defragger, like
> Auslogic's Defrag or Piriform's Defraggler, and read their manual on what
> command line to use in a scheduled task that you define.
>
> - Hibernate
>
> You already forgot about asking for this in your prior post a week ago in
> this same newsgroup? Do you even bother reading replies to your posts? You
> replied to the thread but you forgot about it already? Why should we waste
> time answering you again?
>
> Go look at the following article which gave you the commands you can put
> into a .bat file that you then run using a scheduled task:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micr...0c09e645bf1/4cfe8fcb188363df#4cfe8fcb188363df
> (short URL: http://tinyurl.com/29arl4n)
>
> Since you'll be using a .bat file to run the commands to hibernate, you
> could also put the defrag command for your drive(s) in the same batch file
> and just have one event to run the .bat file.
> .
>
 
E

Eric

Flightless Bird
I remember the option "notify me of replies" was worked before, maybe 3-5
year ago, then it does not work forever.
Thank for any suggestions
Eric

"HeyBub" wrote:

> Eric wrote:
>
>
>
> >
> > Another issue is that this forum is no longer support email alert, so
> > it is very inconvenient to
> > look for my past post. I may need to go back at least 10-15 pages for
> > my post on a few day ago.
> > Do you have any suggestions on how to easily look up my past posts?
>
> This "forum" never did support email alerts. Inasmuch as you're using the
> horrid web interface, you'll have to live with its eccentricities,
> limitations, and blunders. I have no idea as to how to find a prior post in
> whatever web interface you're using.
>
> If, however, you were using a civilized news reader - Outlook Express,
> Thunderbird, Forte Agent, etc., you'd invoke the "Find" command.
>
>
>
> .
>
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Eric wrote:

> I would like to perform defragment, after that hibernate XP, I know how to
> hibernate XP individually from my past post on this forum, but I don't
> know how to activate hibernation, once the process of defragment is done,
> and it cannot be schedule, because the time required for defragment
> cannot be estimated.

And why I suggested putting the commands in a .bat file.

> Do you have any suggestions on how to activate hibernation after the
> process of defragment is done?
>
> Another issue is that this forum is no longer support email alert,

Irrelevant since YOU replied to that prior thread so you know about the
commands that can be put in a .bat file. I don't use the webnews-for-
dummies interface that Microsoft uses to pretend this is a forum instead of
Usenet. That web-based client breaks all the time.
 
V

VanguardLH

Flightless Bird
Eric wrote:

> I put following codes into batch file, but when I run it, defragment seems
> not to perform at all, XP go hibernation within a second.
> Do you have any suggestions on what wrong the code is?
> Thank you very much for any suggestions
> Eric
>
> C:/WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe z: -v
> %windir%\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState Hibernate

Do you actually have a drive that is designated with the letter "z:"?
Doesn't sound like that would be a hard disk. When you open a command shell
(cmd.exe) and execute that first command to run defrag.exe, does it do
anything? It can't do anything more in a .bat file than it does when you
run the command yourself.
 
B

Bob I

Flightless Bird
Given that defragging doesn't need to be done but once or twice a year,
why bother?

Eric wrote:
> I would like to set schedule to perform defragment? after that, make XP with
> SP3 into hibernation automatically.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> Eric
 
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