Defragmentation is not working - windows 7

you try to run the defrag, but it does not work - just does not start, without any error message. I am running windows 7

Hello jon_london,

Thanks for posting on the Microsoft answers Forum.

The service name is defragsvc. This service is now used to defragment the disks on a calendar. It will start and stop automatically and is not running at startup. If you decide to disable this service because you use another application to defrag, you must also disable the scheduled task.

To do this, go to start-> Control Panel-> system and security-> administrator tools-> Task Scheduler

Left column: library-> Microsoft-> Windows Task Scheduler-> Defrag-> ScheduleDefrag (under the name status triggers) right click and select Disable.

If you want to try and start it manually, go to a command prompt, right click and select run as administrator.

Then type:C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe k defragsvc

If please reply back and let us know if you can always start the defragmentation service.

Thank you

Marilyn
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