Allowing Defrag Permissions with out admin rights

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In the Group Policy Editor go to Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights Assignments. In the right pane locate the entry for Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks.

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"Wesley" <Wesley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news 2E04D5F-B2FE-47C1-BAEC-3D8D2578EFB0@microsoft.com...
> Anyone out their know how to give defrag rights without making the user a
> local admin. I know I can make it a schedlued task but the user like to do it
> himself. We use a domain system here so I could send down a group policy
> change if needed.

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I tried this and it did not work, but I found another way to get this to work.
I scheduled a task to run a bat file with the DOS defrag commands in it and
gave it the admin permissions. Then all the user needs to do is to open the
Scheduled Task window and run the task. This seems to work.

"Doug Knox MS-MVP" wrote:

> In the Group Policy Editor go to Computer Configuration, Windows Settings, Security Settings, Local Policies, User Rights Assignments. In the right pane locate the entry for Perform Volume Maintenance Tasks.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> "Wesley" <Wesley@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news 2E04D5F-B2FE-47C1-BAEC-3D8D2578EFB0@microsoft.com...
> > Anyone out their know how to give defrag rights without making the user a
> > local admin. I know I can make it a schedlued task but the user like to do it
> > himself. We use a domain system here so I could send down a group policy
> > change if needed.
>