Run as a service

[abqbill]

Hi Jeroen,

It would be very useful if we could install JkDefrag as a service, and configure that it should run at least once every n minutes. This would be very useful in corporate scenarios where end-users do not have administrator rights and thus can't defragment files they don't have permissions for. A service could run as an elevated account and defragment the entire drive. Along with this, it would be useful to have a tray icon (or other visual evidence) that the defrag is running.

Regards,

Bill

[jeroen]

Thank you very much for sharing your idea, I appreciate it! But why not run JkDefrag via the Windows task scheduler? There are lot's of options and possibilities to choose from, including running at elevated permissions, and the program will not take up any memory when it's doing nothing.

[abqbill]

Hi Jeroen,

That's what I'm doing currently. However, running as a service with a tray icon is a more elegant solution than using a scheduled task for several reasons:

1) Defragmentation would be self-contained and would not depend on the scheduler service
2) Users could more easily see that a defrag is running
3) Scheduling could be simpler: Run once every n minutes

Of course, a bit of memory usage is a trade-off, but I think the memory requirement for such a service and tray icon component is probably negligible.

Regards,

Bill

[jeroen]

running as a service with a tray icon is a more elegant solution than using a scheduled task for several reasons:

Thanks for the explanation. I think some of the GUI wrappers have scheduling, perhaps you can take a look at those (see the "contributed by other people" chapter on the JkDefrag homepage).