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« on: October 18, 2010, 12:09:20 PM »
I have a laptop that I am running Vista on. I Defragged this morning and then noticed that I could look at defrag reports if I typed in defrag.exe into the command prompt. I am the administrator on my computer and when I opened up the prompt and typed in defrag.exe it said,

" This program needs to be run with administrative permissions.  Use an a administrator command prompt and then run the program again. "

Now I am the only user with administrative privileges that is authorized on my computer, ( for that matter I am the only one period) but I really want to look at the reports. The only thing I do not like about Vista's defrag is you cannot see the defrag in process like you use to be able to..

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do to be able to see the defrag reports? I just really want to make sure that I did complete the last one.
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Re: ? Question ?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2010, 12:31:59 PM »
I know next to nothing about windows, but I think if you (right-click) command prompt and "run as administrator" then type your command again, it should display, the trick being you're using an administrative console at that point, not a user console.

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« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2010, 03:19:08 PM »
That worked. Thanks. Funny I have looked at that option before and never thought about using it for this purpose.
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