Stealth Defrag? Options

[Rob1986]

Was happily playing some computer games today and in the middle of one of them my hard drive started making a pretty big racket. Alt-Tabbed out and couldn't find any reason for this happening in my applications, looked up my processes and df.exe was eating up most of my processing power. Wasn't entirely sure it was defraggler at first, but obviously found out was.

Completely forgot that I had scheduled defrags cos my computers power supply broke and I've only just got a new one, but having never had a scheduled one actually end up running are they supposed to run with pretty much no notification that they're happening? Would be awesome if in the scheduling there was some way of having it so it only ran when not much processing power was being used, or possibly have it so it won't run when certain other programs are. Obviously at the end of the day it's my fault for forgetting it was set to run, but that'd be a cool little feature.

[mr don]

Was happily playing some computer games today and in the middle of one of them my hard drive started making a pretty big racket. Alt-Tabbed out and couldn't find any reason for this happening in my applications, looked up my processes and df.exe was eating up most of my processing power. Wasn't entirely sure it was defraggler at first, but obviously found out was.

Completely forgot that I had scheduled defrags cos my computers power supply broke and I've only just got a new one, but having never had a scheduled one actually end up running are they supposed to run with pretty much no notification that they're happening? Would be awesome if in the scheduling there was some way of having it so it only ran when not much processing power was being used, or possibly have it so it won't run when certain other programs are. Obviously at the end of the day it's my fault for forgetting it was set to run, but that'd be a cool little feature.

It would be insanely hard for it to tell when you are using what or what you would call "busy".

How about an alert that it is about to run the scheduled defrag. Please click ok?

Or, even better, make a version that will allow you to schedule it to auto-run defraggler with no questions asked, or to set it to prompt you before running. This would solve everyone's problems.

Then, if they have it set to run, but prompt user first, the user would have to click ok to start it.

[Andavari]

The "busy" time could be a setting of it not activating until the computer has been idle for a certain amount of minutes, like 10 minutes for example.