Windows 8 New Defrag GUI

September 14th, 2011 by Dustin

Microsoft has redone the GUI for the defrag program. Many people were dissatisfied with the lack of information from the Vista/7 GUI, so the new one is a bit more involved, but still very simple. You can analyze the drive before “optimizing” it, and it tells you the status of the process as well.

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Dustin is the Head Editor of MSTechPages and has been awarded the 2011 Microsoft Community Contributor award. He is in the process of finishing up a book about Windows 7 Tips and Tweaks. Also, a free ebook for Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts is available on this site, with more printable "cheat sheets" coming soon. You can also find him in the Microsoft Community forums (also as a Community Moderator), Tech Support Guy forums, HardForum, and The Windows Club forums, among several others.
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  • Gary

    Any ideas why when I click on Optimize nothing happens?  Same thing when I try to run defag from Administrator Tools?  It was working recently.

    Running W8 Pro x64 RTM (from Technet)

  • Gary

     Executing dfrgui.exe also does nothing.