XP auto boot defrag not working ... 1

[Mickerry]

i understand (from the Extreme Tech website) that XP had a built-in boot defragmenter that is supposed to run automatically in idle time every three days. i checked a place in my registry which indicates that it has not run since May 20th, and i don't know what the hang-up is. they suggested on trick which was to Run "Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks" and that should bring all idle/background tasks to completion, but the registry still indicates that the boot defragmentation didn't "take".

First of all, am i understanding this correctly? And if so, are there any suggestions as to how to get the boot defragmentation to work? i understand the prefetcher is involved somehow, but that hasn't helped me. and i know there is third party software as well, but i just want XP Pro to do what it's supposed to do automatically, and i'd love to learn how to get this process to run.
Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Mikl

Mikl

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[w1nn3r]

Open regedit, goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction

In the right hand side set Enable to Y

 

[Mickerry]

thx w1nn3r ... i checked that registry value and it was set correctly to 'Y'. so it didn't solve th problem, but i wouldn't have found it without you so i'd like to give a star.

Mikl

A bird in the hand makes typing difficult.

 

[w1nn3r]

Have you verified that the drive needs defragmented? It might skip the process unless it's needed.

 

[Mickerry]

it's not a drive defrag, it's a boot defrag. and i figure it may not need it often, but six months is a long time to go without at least a check on it by the system ... especially since it's supposed to get checked/fixed by XP automatically every three days (or maybe every three boots).

Mikl

A bird in the hand makes typing difficult.