Foole's Journal: defrag

The defrag applet in Windows always annoyed me. it would wait about 30 seconds after you press the 'defrag' button to tell you that there wasn't enough free disk space. This caught me out a few times when I started it up cos I was going AFK for a while and came back to find it asking me whether to continue or not.

Just in case anyone else has this problem, hasn't figured out the workaround and just happens to be reading my blog:

defrag.exe C: -f

This will start up the console based version of the defragger and go ahead regardless of whether there is enough free space.