XP Defrag is commandline capable

Windows XP defrag program has a commandline interface. This means you can use XP’s scheduler to automate the defragmenting of your partitions. To get the options for defrag:

C:\>defrag



Windows Disk Defragmenter

Copyright (c) 2001 Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc.

Usage:

defrag  [-a] [-f] [-v] [-?]

  volume  drive letter or mount point (d: or d:\vol\mountpoint)

  -a      Analyze only

  -f      Force defragmentation even if free space is low

  -v      Verbose output

  -?      Display this help text

When I defrag the C: partition:

C:\>defrag c: -f

Windows Disk Defragmenter

Copyright (c) 2001 Microsoft Corp. and Executive Software International, Inc.

Analysis Report

    4.98 GB Total,  2.69 GB (54%) Free,  4% Fragmented (8% file fragmentation)
Defragmentation Report

    4.98 GB Total,  2.69 GB (54%) Free,  0% Fragmented (0% file fragmentation)

In the following, I schedule the C: partition to be defragged at 6pm, D: at 7pm, and E: at 8pm.

C:\>at 18:00 /interactive /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su “defrag c: -f”

Added a new job with job ID = 1

C:\>at 19:00 /interactive /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su “defrag d: -f”

Added a new job with job ID = 2
C:\>at 20:00 /interactive /every:M,T,W,Th,F,S,Su “defrag e: -f”

Added a new job with job ID = 3
C:>at

Status ID   Day                     Time          Command Line

——————————————————————————-

        1   Each M T W Th F S Su    6:00 PM       “defrag c: -f”

        2   Each M T W Th F S Su    7:00 PM       “defrag d: -f”

        3   Each M T W Th F S Su    8:00 PM       “defrag e: -f”