* Sorta Off Topic?

Has anyone noticed a difference between running the Windows defrag utility via GUI vs the command line?

I ran the GUI defrag against a drive FOUR TIMES and it was still very fragmented. I ran the C/L tool ONCE and it cleaned up nicely. Fifth time the charm??

So, I go to some other machines, all with similar configs of the C: drive, similar age, similar use. Run the GUI on two, the CL util on 3.. the CL utility shows 0% fragmentation after one pass.. running the CL util on the two servers where I ran the GUI (analyze only mode) shows 15-20% fragmentation. Run the CL tool on those and it's down to 0%! Opening the GUI tool on all systems shows no red bars after running the CL tool on most, and just one or two on the others.

Just wondering if the C/L interface is somehow different? I wrapped a script around the CL tool to schedule nightly defrags on my servers at home.

Glenn
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