disk defragmenter ui

What happen to the Disk Defragmenter UI?
How would I know the progress of the defragment with just a spinning "circle" icon?? There is no percentage number or anything. I know that it is almost impossible to predict when it will finish but at least give us some thing to see or number of "percentage".
Please bring back the "bars" UI (from XP).
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I guess they decided not to include progress identifier, since Vista defrags the system all the time without user intervention. Good point though. Bugged. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Anusidh" wrote in message

What happen to the Disk Defragmenter UI?
How would I know the progress of the defragment with just a spinning "circle" icon?? There is no percentage number or anything. I know that it is almost impossible to predict when it will finish but at least give us some thing to see or number of "percentage".
Please bring back the "bars" UI (from XP).
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Yeh I thought this - I thought it was because what Andre said, that it runs as a background service and therefore runs all the time... but yeh, right to bug it.
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I guess they decided not to include progress identifier, since Vista defrags the system all the time without user intervention. Good point though. Bugged. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Anusidh" wrote in message What happen to the Disk Defragmenter UI?
How would I know the progress of the defragment with just a spinning "circle" icon?? There is no percentage number or anything. I know that it is almost impossible to predict when it will finish but at least give us some thing to see or number of "percentage".
Please bring back the "bars" UI (from XP).
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Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

since Vista defrags the system all the time without user intervention.

Yuk! More ways to slow everything down, and cause disk thrashing. If it defrags other volumes it could also cause an other o/s to fail to boot by moving it's boot files across a cylinder boundary.
There was a limitation in Win2k where you could not schedule defrag remotely, I think it was to do with a license deal with Executive Software so people would still buy DiskKeeper - I wonder if this still applies in Vista?
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

From what I have seen, it only defrags the drive on which Vista is installed, so partitions or physical drives aren't affected. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Gerry Hickman" wrote in message

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:
since Vista defrags the system all the time without user intervention.
Yuk! More ways to slow everything down, and cause disk thrashing. If it defrags other volumes it could also cause an other o/s to fail to boot by moving it's boot files across a cylinder boundary.
There was a limitation in Win2k where you could not schedule defrag remotely, I think it was to do with a license deal with Executive Software so people would still buy DiskKeeper - I wonder if this still applies in Vista?
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Andre Da Costa [Extended64] wrote:

From what I have seen, it only defrags the drive on which Vista is installed, so partitions or physical drives aren't affected.

OK!! That's cool:)
-- Gerry Hickman (London UK)