Why does Defrag need Admin rights?

[vetran]

in any decent organisation this would be controlled centrally and scheduled.

Why admin - Defrag has to have rights to the whole drive, file copy delete has only rights where the admin allows you. If its set right it should be just your my documents and unless needed by programs nowhere else.

[minestrone]

Not exactly true, specialist equipment can recover data sometimes.

Yup, if your hard drive is big and the file is small, the data will be there for anyone to recover.

clientCo asked me to put in a request for the GWT plugin install which they did after 2 weeks, 2 weeks after they hired me as a GWT developer.

[jame]

I dont know the technicalities of it but in my work place, apparently the IT department has been able to successfully manage defrag jobs by setting one of the commercial completely automatic defrag utilities on the job. It seems that has almost eliminated the manual work involved in this.

[swamp]

Use an SSD.

[gingerjedi]

Use an SSD.

How would that help?

[SupremeSpod]

I dont know the technicalities of it but in my work place, apparently the IT department has been able to successfully manage defrag jobs by setting one of the commercial completely automatic defrag utilities on the job. It seems that has almost eliminated the manual work involved in this.

C:\defrag c: -f -v

Simples

[RichardCranium]

And ditto for ScanDisk.

[Sysman]

It causes me endless amusement that the two new machines in the lab are tied down so tightly that it won't run upgrades in the "managed software".

It downloaded an upgrade to Adobe this morning but didn't do anything with it because it requires admin rights to install.

Oh yes, if you have admin rights, you can't use the network.

It's sort of catch 22, you see.

This summer I was doing one day a week elsewhere. Every single week for 3 months Adobe did its download bit then couldn't install.

The answer to the original question is that the admins should set up defrag to run as a background job in the middle of the night, (or at some other time where machines are switched off overnight).

[swamp]

How would that help?

Solid State Disks don't need to be defragged.

[gingerjedi]

Solid State Disks don't need to be defragged.

Just been looking into this and it looks as though you are right! Although data does get spread (deliberately) the speed more than compensates and a defrag would just wear out the sectors by doing unnecessary read/writes.