Defragmentation on Windows 7 workstations
You would need a third party tool to handle this. The native defrag utility can’t do this. ============ You cannot remove the defragmentation utility tool of any Windows Operating Sytsem. This is because it is already a utility software prebuilt with your Windows OS. If you don’t like that defragmentation utility, you can purchase a [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:41 AM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010, Windows Defragmentation, Windows XP
You would need a third party tool to handle this. The native defrag utility can’t do this. ============ You cannot remove the defragmentation utility tool of any Windows Operating Sytsem. This is because it is already a utility software prebuilt with your Windows OS. If you don’t like that defragmentation utility, you can purchase a [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:41 AM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows 7 in 2010, Windows Defragmentation, Windows XP
Defragment when CPU drops below 5%?
Using the native defrag utility, no. Using DiskKeeper’s tool, I believe so. However the odds are that you won’t get that much benifit from defragging that often, and you’ll end up just burning out your hard drive faster that normal. ============== Your computer might need a lot of CPU power to process its deframentation process. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
Using the native defrag utility, no. Using DiskKeeper’s tool, I believe so. However the odds are that you won’t get that much benifit from defragging that often, and you’ll end up just burning out your hard drive faster that normal. ============== Your computer might need a lot of CPU power to process its deframentation process. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
CPU, CPU overload, Defragmentation, Windows Server, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server Management
defrag through group policy
for /f %%a in (c:list.txt) do psexec -s -d \%%a defrag c: && shutdown -s -f Save this as a .bat file. Download psexec from sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx Create a directory on your desktop, put the extracted psexec.exe and you .bat file in this directory. Create a list of machine names you want to defrag, an [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
Defragmentation, Group Policy
for /f %%a in (c:list.txt) do psexec -s -d \%%a defrag c: && shutdown -s -f Save this as a .bat file. Download psexec from sysinternals http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx Create a directory on your desktop, put the extracted psexec.exe and you .bat file in this directory. Create a list of machine names you want to defrag, an [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:40 AM
Defragmentation, Group Policy
Daily full backups successfull but..
I’m not sure about this … however, you may want to check to ensure that no one else ran an offline defrag (using eseutil) or something like this. This would be one way of reducing the physical space like you’ve explained. ========== There might be a problem with the partitioning of your hard disk drive. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:38 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange Server backup, Storage
I’m not sure about this … however, you may want to check to ensure that no one else ran an offline defrag (using eseutil) or something like this. This would be one way of reducing the physical space like you’ve explained. ========== There might be a problem with the partitioning of your hard disk drive. [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:38 AM
Backup, Backup & recovery, Exchange 2003, Exchange Server backup, Storage
Can you remove a Back-End Public Folder Store.
Why would an offline defrag take 40+ hours? Is this a 1989 server or something??? The last time I did offline defrags it took less than 4 hrs to do a 140GB database and that was on an old windows 2000 box. What version of windows are you on? What version of exchange? You say [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Clusters, Defrag, Public Folder Store, Public folders
Why would an offline defrag take 40+ hours? Is this a 1989 server or something??? The last time I did offline defrags it took less than 4 hrs to do a 140GB database and that was on an old windows 2000 box. What version of windows are you on? What version of exchange? You say [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Clusters, Defrag, Public Folder Store, Public folders
Can we view fragmentation of Windows server 2003 systems remotely?
I would think this is not outside of the capabilities of Nagios. Otherwise you could periodically log in to the server remotely and check. Hope this helps! -Schmidtw ============ There might be a software or program that could perform the defragmentation process like controlling the remote computer as long as you have the access on [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows Defragmentation, Windows Server 2003
I would think this is not outside of the capabilities of Nagios. Otherwise you could periodically log in to the server remotely and check. Hope this helps! -Schmidtw ============ There might be a software or program that could perform the defragmentation process like controlling the remote computer as long as you have the access on [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Defragmentation, Windows 7, Windows Defragmentation, Windows Server 2003
C drive disk defragmentation
Assuming you are running the Windows defragger, unfortunately, particularly with a badly fragmented hard drive, it doesn’t always do a complete defragmentation in one pass. (I’ve seen it take as many as 3 passes for that defragger to completely defrag a drive.) In addition, that defragger will not defrag the page file. To get a [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Defragmentation, Disk defragmentation, Hard drives, Windows XP
Assuming you are running the Windows defragger, unfortunately, particularly with a badly fragmented hard drive, it doesn’t always do a complete defragmentation in one pass. (I’ve seen it take as many as 3 passes for that defragger to completely defrag a drive.) In addition, that defragger will not defrag the page file. To get a [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Defragmentation, Disk defragmentation, Hard drives, Windows XP
Backup started running 2x longer
You should look at your disk IO while the backup is running as well as before and after. Maybe someone scheduled a defrag which would sure slow things down (or some other sort of processing). ============= The most possible cause of your hard disk drive to take longer is because there might be a few [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, IBM, IBM Ultrium 3580, OS/400, SSRS
You should look at your disk IO while the backup is running as well as before and after. Maybe someone scheduled a defrag which would sure slow things down (or some other sort of processing). ============= The most possible cause of your hard disk drive to take longer is because there might be a few [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, IBM, IBM Ultrium 3580, OS/400, SSRS
2003 Exchange Defragmentation
With the specs you are showing here it should take no longer than an hour, and probably significantly less. Plan for 2 hours is my suggestion, then if you have plenty of time left over, you’re good. Better to plan too much than too little! ============== Defragmenting the hard disk drive using any utility software [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Add new tag, Defragmentation, Eseutil utility, Exchange 2003, Exchange defragmentation
With the specs you are showing here it should take no longer than an hour, and probably significantly less. Plan for 2 hours is my suggestion, then if you have plenty of time left over, you’re good. Better to plan too much than too little! ============== Defragmenting the hard disk drive using any utility software [...]
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| February 1, 2012 8:37 AM
Add new tag, Defragmentation, Eseutil utility, Exchange 2003, Exchange defragmentation
Work every where
<a href=”http://portableapps.com/”>PortableApps</a> may be what you are looking for. It has a great suite of tools. =========== The best thing you have to do to make yourself work everywhere is to save your software installer and files to your USB drive and install it in your computer system. You can even download and install the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:46 AM
Desktop virtualization, USB Flash drives, Virtualization applications
<a href=”http://portableapps.com/”>PortableApps</a> may be what you are looking for. It has a great suite of tools. =========== The best thing you have to do to make yourself work everywhere is to save your software installer and files to your USB drive and install it in your computer system. You can even download and install the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:46 AM
Desktop virtualization, USB Flash drives, Virtualization applications
Windows flash drive formatting issue
no matter how you format your thumb drive to which ever file system too (ntfs or fat), the format should not take so long… what windows are you using to format the flash drive?]] ================ Before formatting your flash drive, you can already notice some settings above. Make sure to select the appropriate settings and [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:43 AM
exFAT, File System, Flash drive, NTFS, Thumb Drive Formatting, USB drive, USB Flash drives
no matter how you format your thumb drive to which ever file system too (ntfs or fat), the format should not take so long… what windows are you using to format the flash drive?]] ================ Before formatting your flash drive, you can already notice some settings above. Make sure to select the appropriate settings and [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:43 AM
exFAT, File System, Flash drive, NTFS, Thumb Drive Formatting, USB drive, USB Flash drives
Windows XP no longer recognizes my 8GB Apricorn Microkey.
=========== You are right that it might be a compatibility issues specifically between your Operating System and the USB flash drive. Perform some research on the specific device and its compatibility to operating systems.
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| January 30, 2012 8:43 AM
USB Flash drives, Windows XP
=========== You are right that it might be a compatibility issues specifically between your Operating System and the USB flash drive. Perform some research on the specific device and its compatibility to operating systems.
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| January 30, 2012 8:43 AM
USB Flash drives, Windows XP
Will defragmenting hard disks improve SQL Server performance?
Yes it can, however the benefit will probably be minimal. It will be a great amount of help for a data warehouse, but for OLTP applications the data will be so fragmented throughout the file, that defragmenting the file on the drive will only provide a minimal amount of assistance. More is gained by making [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:40 AM
Defragment, Disk drives, SQL Server performance tuning
Yes it can, however the benefit will probably be minimal. It will be a great amount of help for a data warehouse, but for OLTP applications the data will be so fragmented throughout the file, that defragmenting the file on the drive will only provide a minimal amount of assistance. More is gained by making [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:40 AM
Defragment, Disk drives, SQL Server performance tuning
Which backup tools work best with Hyper-V? Any recommendations?
You can run many different backup tools with Hyper-V. I can’t recommend any in particular, it really depends on how you want to backup the VMs. One option is System Center Data Protection Manager. ============ You don’t mentioned if w3hat Hyper-V is, however, any backup software are good for backing up files. It just depends [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:40 AM
Backup & restore, Backup and recovery software, Backup Tools, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30
You can run many different backup tools with Hyper-V. I can’t recommend any in particular, it really depends on how you want to backup the VMs. One option is System Center Data Protection Manager. ============ You don’t mentioned if w3hat Hyper-V is, however, any backup software are good for backing up files. It just depends [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:40 AM
Backup & restore, Backup and recovery software, Backup Tools, Hyper-V, Microsoft virtualization, Microsoft Virtualization Chat 7/30
What is backed up when backing up Windows XP?
See, that depends on u. If u want to take backup of ur user related files / folders then simply backup those files / folders. If u r going to format and reinstall XP then it is not necessary to taking backup the system files. Better u have to note down these : 1. IP [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Windows XP, Windows XP backup, Windows XP Backup Utility
See, that depends on u. If u want to take backup of ur user related files / folders then simply backup those files / folders. If u r going to format and reinstall XP then it is not necessary to taking backup the system files. Better u have to note down these : 1. IP [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, Backup and recovery software, Windows XP, Windows XP backup, Windows XP Backup Utility
What backup software should I use for 12 servers and 6 terabytes of data?
For a simplied solution, I would use Symantec Backup Exec utilzing SpectraLogic T50e tape library. ========== You have to use a cloning software, I suggest that you research some cloning software available in the market because they have different features and prices. The most important is organize first the files that you want to back [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Backup software, Tape Backups, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server backup
For a simplied solution, I would use Symantec Backup Exec utilzing SpectraLogic T50e tape library. ========== You have to use a cloning software, I suggest that you research some cloning software available in the market because they have different features and prices. The most important is organize first the files that you want to back [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:37 AM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Backup software, Tape Backups, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server backup
What are the signs my RAID array is dying?
It will be hard to detect a “failing” RAID array. Your best option would be to go to the manufacturer of the RAiD or the manufacturer of your server to see if they would provide a “smart array intelligence” to give you that low level capabilities. Sometimes signs would be a performance decrease (I/O related) [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Hard drives, RAID, RAID Array
It will be hard to detect a “failing” RAID array. Your best option would be to go to the manufacturer of the RAiD or the manufacturer of your server to see if they would provide a “smart array intelligence” to give you that low level capabilities. Sometimes signs would be a performance decrease (I/O related) [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Backup, Backup and Recovery Hardware, Hard drives, RAID, RAID Array
VIRUS Scan
Fair warning – I’m going to be irritated with you. /rant ON There are 3 or 4 major vendors (depending on how you count them), and dozens of smaller vendors in this (anti-virus) marketplace. You’ve provided ZERO information on your O/S, your brand, style and version of anti-virus, and you expect us to somehow magically [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Auditing, Cooling, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery, Electrical, Information risk management, Physical security, SAN, Security management, Security products, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure
Fair warning – I’m going to be irritated with you. /rant ON There are 3 or 4 major vendors (depending on how you count them), and dozens of smaller vendors in this (anti-virus) marketplace. You’ve provided ZERO information on your O/S, your brand, style and version of anti-virus, and you expect us to somehow magically [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:34 AM
Auditing, Cooling, Data center operations, Disaster Recovery, Electrical, Information risk management, Physical security, SAN, Security management, Security products, Software Quality Assurance, Space/structure
virus – W32.STUXNET!INK
The best solution is, you have to download latest MWAV virus scanner (not escan), which installs just instance and scans as emergency basis. When the menu comes, select All Local Drives and again select Scan All Files in SAFE MODE. After full scan, again select the 1st option then select Program Files and restart the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:30 AM
Antivirus, Antivirus software, File Server, File server software, Virus removal
The best solution is, you have to download latest MWAV virus scanner (not escan), which installs just instance and scans as emergency basis. When the menu comes, select All Local Drives and again select Scan All Files in SAFE MODE. After full scan, again select the 1st option then select Program Files and restart the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:30 AM
Antivirus, Antivirus software, File Server, File server software, Virus removal
USB Pen Drive is detected but not listed in My Computer
suppose your pen drive is detect on your system it will automaticaly display your pen drive . it is not display your pendrive then some usb drivers are misssing just check it. ********* Since this is a new system a usb drive should be detected properly as the usb drivers should be native to the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:30 AM
Desktop, Device Manager, HP Compaq dx2810, USB device not recognzed, USB Flash drives
suppose your pen drive is detect on your system it will automaticaly display your pen drive . it is not display your pendrive then some usb drivers are misssing just check it. ********* Since this is a new system a usb drive should be detected properly as the usb drivers should be native to the [...]
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| January 30, 2012 8:30 AM
Desktop, Device Manager, HP Compaq dx2810, USB device not recognzed, USB Flash drives
