win 8/64 optimise no drive listed

robmar0se

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I have a slow win 8/64 system (not 8.1) with one 500gb GPT hdd. When I went to optimise it, no drive was listed, further when I tried the cmd prompt (as admin) defrag c: /a /u /v - it just said optimise and went straight to the basic c:\ prompt, ie didn't do anything. I am using defrag now, but I am curious to know why the win 8 defrag isn't working?

I have searched for something remotely related to this, but mostly its about SSDs which isn't relevant, but i understand that one doesn't want to optimise SSDs anyway.

Anyone sorted this issue?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win xp win vista win 7 win 8 win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    q6600
    Motherboard
    ga-ep35c-ds3r
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 7200
Because defrag.exe doesn't do anything in windows 8 x64, only in 32 bit - you have to use dfrgui.exe.

It should run automatically unless you've deliberately disabled it though. If you click on defrag (not defragment and optimise drives) it will not do anything either. Not sure why it is still shown (the second one in the picture I mean) but it is... Habit I suppose.

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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Pro Prieview x64
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    MacBook Pro Core2Duo
    CPU
    T7600
    Memory
    3
    Graphics Card(s)
    ATI Radeon X1600
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Internal
    Screen Resolution
    1440 x 800
    Hard Drives
    40GB
    Keyboard
    Apple
    Mouse
    Apple
    Internet Speed
    Varies
    Browser
    Various
    Antivirus
    Defender
Many thanks for yr help.

I wasn't aware of this change - I can see both defrag & dfrgui in the system32 folder. Unfortunately trying to run dfrgui, does what defrag does, ie nothing. Doing a search as you suggested, did not come up with the options as per yr post, all I got was defraggler. I haven't de-activated the service, not intentionally anyway. What still puzzles me is on the C drive tools page, the optimise function shows no drives. This sounds very odd, is this a possible registry error? I have just completed a system refresh (from the recovery partition), to fix some issues.

Note, Defraggler was only installed after I hit the problems mention in my initial post.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win xp win vista win 7 win 8 win 8.1
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    CPU
    q6600
    Motherboard
    ga-ep35c-ds3r
    Memory
    4gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia 7200
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