dfrgntfs.exe ???

[ajp3jeh]

I'm at my folks house for the holiday and was asked to check out the family pc that was "running slow." Windows Task Manager indicates that the application "dfrgntfs.exe" is using ~98% of the CPU. The application will not terminate if you tell it to and my online research indicates it is the command line for defragging the hard drive. I check in MSCONFIG and couldn't find the application listed anywhere. Can any one tell me how to terminate this process?

 

[stash]

Does it come back when you reboot?

 

[oog]

There should be a utility for killing processes on www.sysinternals.com.

 

[ajp3jeh]

When I reboot the system, the process is not running for the first few minutes and the system performs normally. After several minutes, the process starts and the system bogs down. The system is running Windows XP Pro.

 

[ajp3jeh]

Also, when I go into computer management and attempt to do anything with disk defragmenter, I'm advised that there is already a session running.

 

[lowtech1]

Originally posted by: ajp3jeh
I'm at my folks house for the holiday and was asked to check out the family pc that was "running slow." Windows Task Manager indicates that the application "dfrgntfs.exe" is using ~98% of the CPU. The application will not terminate if you tell it to and my online research indicates it is the command line for defragging the hard drive. I check in MSCONFIG and couldn't find the application listed anywhere. Can any one tell me how to terminate this process?

Try the following command: net stop dfrgntfs.exe

How to disable defragment boot file

 

[ElfHeart]

dfrgntfs.exe is a file used by diskeeper (disk defragging software as you can guess), of course the windows defragger is a stripped down version of diskeeper. if they have diskeeper installed you can open it via the start menu, just change the 'set it and forget it' setting, i am guessing it is set to 'smart scheduling' which can come on at any time, better to change it to run every 24hours on a daily/weekly basis and set the time to run in the middle of the night so it should avoid computer slow down for your parents