Running Defrag as a Domain user

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Alex,

The built-in defragmenter requires Admin access in order to run. No way
around it.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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"Alex" <hulsta-anonymous-@intersci.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to run defrag as a domain user so I can allow
> certain users to run defrag when they are noticing large
> amounts of disk hashing. I'm running a windows NT 4.0
> Server SP6a with a windows 2000 client. I can't find any
> local policy using gpedit.msc to allow the user access to
> run defrag. I've also tried using:
> runas /user:administrator@domain.company.com "mmc dfrg.msc"
> the only way this works is if i make the user a local
> admin which is what i'm trying to avoid.
> when run as a user i get: RUNAS ERROR: unable to run -
> dfrg.msc 193:
> is there another way to do this I've also tried contig
> from SysInternals but that won't work as a user either?
> Thanks for your help ahead of time.