I'm referring to how your computer is crashing and has to be restarted, usually multiple times a day. It's either you or someone is force restarting by switching off the power or pressing the reset button, or the power supply is faulty.
Defrag runs constantly
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Win10 64. Defrag runs constantly, grinding away at my hard drives for no reason. The both drives are 0% fragmented, except for system reserved files which are 40% fragmented and defrag will not touch them. The Defrag is OFF, how do I stop the system running defrag every time the PC is idle for more than 60 seconds?? How do I defrage the system files which need defragging?
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DaveM121 934.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor2023-11-28T08:20:38+00:00 Where are you seeing the Defrag tool running, i do not see it in those screenshots, perhaps I am missing it?
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Anonymous
2023-11-28T08:29:40+00:00 Where are you seeing the Defrag tool running, i do not see it in those screenshots, perhaps I am missing it?
4th line "service host disk defragmenter"
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DaveM121 934.5K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2023-11-28T08:34:54+00:00 Thank you I see it now.
Click your Start Button, then just type cmd and on the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'
Paste in this command to Command Prompt and press Enter.
schtasks /Change /DISABLE /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag"
Restart (not shut down) your PC and then check if that stops the Disk Defragment service running.
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Anonymous
2023-11-28T08:57:28+00:00 Thank you I see it now.
Click your Start Button, then just type cmd and on the resulting list, right click Command Prompt and select 'Run as Administrator'
Paste in this command to Command Prompt and press Enter.
schtasks /Change /DISABLE /TN "\Microsoft\Windows\Defrag\ScheduledDefrag"
Restart (not shut down) your PC and then check if that stops the Disk Defragment service running.
I cut and pasted the the text which came back with an error, and again without the ""