Any way to disk defrag or reg cleaner on remote computer?

[Chris2wire]

In other words the program/script would have to run locally, but it would need to scan a network drive, whether that network drive be mapped to the local computer or simply be identified by its network computer name...

Currently when you try to manage a network computer in active directory one of the things you cant do is do disk defrag... Xp doesnt support it remotely. You must be logged in to that computer. And logging in remotely is not an option since the users are logged in.

I need something that can run on my computer but scan a network drive or network computer. I don't see why this would be so difficult since its just scanning the drive, but no matter how much I research I can't find anything.

Ok, perhaps the registry cleaner may be difficult to run remotely, but even that must be possible...

Keep in mind Im trying to find something free, and possibly just a script if thats all that is free, so any help or tips would be appreciated!

 

[Rilex]

You can schedule defrag.exe to run via script or psexec, scheduled task, etc.

 

[Nothinman]

If you really feel that you need to defrag everyone's drives why not just push a scheduled task to run defrag.exe via a GPO?

And I would highly advise against running any registry cleaners, especially on a large group of machines behind people's back. 9 times out of 10 they cause more problems than they fix and you really don't want to do that to a whole network.

 

[Chris2wire]

No, its not to run on everyone's machine. I use Diskeeper to scan all computers and Diskeeper rates the person's disk drive on a percentage basis of how much it is affected by fragmentation... I want to remotely defragment just the ones that are highly impacted...

 

[Nothinman]

It would be much simpler to just schedule them all to run when no one's using them.

 

[Brazen]

You could browse to \\computername and set up a scheduled task to run defrag.exe, then right-click on the task and choose 'run now.' This would be tedious to do though on many computers, and really the impact of fragmentation on ntfs drives is nothing.