Vista Defrag

Probably my biggest annoyance with Vista so far is the defrag utility. It has been simplified to such an extent than there is no visual clues as to the condition of your hard drive before you defrag and no clue as to the progress of the utility.

I set the defragger off before I went out for a lecture and when I got back two and a half hours later it was still going. I had no idea of the application froze, if it had just started or if it was a minute away from completion. That is just not good enough!

Im with you on that...You can't even choose what HDD to defrag! Your guess is as good as mine for how fragmented it is, how long it'll take, percentage..etc...That's f*cking ridiculous. Maybe at some point they'll release a tweak that'll let you see it.

Yeah, this has to be fixed before I can move to Vista.

I have partitions with large HDTV capture files. One lousy break in a 15GB file and it probably will want to move the whole file. And that is a file that will typically only be read once and then deleted.

Additionally, some kludgy programs end up leaving corrupted files on the disk. Before, you could see what file was hanging things up, kill the defrag, and delete the file.

The whole forced defrag issue with One Care tuneup and the poor defrag utility in Vista is about the most insanely unnecessary problem ever to exist in an OS.

Why not continuously defrag in the background and only defrag files that are old and have been opened multiple times for reading.