Hi everyone.
Congrats on prizes at Sourceforge, totally deserve it.
I'm trying to run JKDefrag on a computer in my university library and it continually pops up a box asking me to login as administrator. And of course I don't have the password.
Does anyone know if it's possible to get JKDefrag to run with minimum permissions? (isn't it a requirement of PortableApps...)
If not it doesn't mean I don't want PortableApps to support it, 'cause it's still an awesome app.
BTW isn't there a JKDefrag Portable support forum? Couldn't find one.
Cheers,
Robin.
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You can't defrag a disk in Windows unless you're logged in as an admin. It's part of Windows' security.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
Of course it won't let you do that!
Defragging requires low-level rights to the hard disk.
Anyone with these rights has the potential to seriously [filtered] things up.
It should be plainly obvious why a library computer wouldn't give just anyone these rights!
Perhaps question we should be asking here is: Why [filtered] do you want to defrag your libraries computers?!!
This is the kind of thing the library staff should be doing if it's needed - which it probably isn't.
I'd suggest talking to the library staff if you really think their computers need defragging. They'll almost certainly say "no", but it's their choice - not yours
[Swearing filtered out, please tone down your answers, this is totally over the line in my opinion - mod SL]
I don't want to defrag my university computers, that would be silly.
I want to defrag my USB stick while I'm on the university computer.
Anyway, I've got over it now. I don't really care...
>I want to defrag my USB stick
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Right. Defragging a flash drive will actually decrease its life-span...
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Flash drives are a completely different technology. They don't need to defrag because instead of using a stick to check if a bit is 1 or 0, it uses electricity and stored particles to.
On a side note: Didn't John go through a big speel about how jamcomm was banned?
Insert original signature here with Greasemonkey Script.
Quite possibly - that post is dated August 8th.
And yeah, defragging flash is a no-no
Yes.
Those are his old posts (created before he got himself banned); I still run across a few of them every once in awhile...
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."