Greg, why not switch off the auto-defrag all together? Then do it when it suits you (preferably with a good defragger like OODefrag or PerfectDisk).

>I have seen that too. But I always have to remind myself that MS has made these enhancement to protect me from myself.
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>One more thing. Everyday at 10:00 am, Vista defrags my 200 gig hard drive. I have changed the start time to 2:00 am, but it still executes at 10:00. Talk about dragging a machine to it knees.
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>>We ran into a problem with Vista here as well. On a workstation or server with shared folders, the shared folders will be available for hours and sometimes days and then all of a sudden, the workstation or server is no longer visible on the network. The workstation or server actually has to be rebooted to be visible on the network again. In the meantime, when you try to get to the shared folder, you have to put up with the endless wait for the timeout to occur. Not to mention if you open up windows explorer and have a drive mapped to that shared folder the endless wait that happens...
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>>>I agree with your points. But in addition, after using Vista here at work for several months, I have come to the conclusion that it sucks. Several times a day it freezes up for two or three minutes. And at least once a day I have restart it. Vista seems to slow down the longer it is running. I have had to turn off all the visual enhancement (classic windows mode) in order to do basic things in VFP. But still, when openning a Open File dialog still takes several seconds (up to 30 seconds).
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>>>I am sure that given time (like I did with XP) that these issues will be addressed. But at the time, I would recommend it to a client.
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>>>>I really like the thumbnails. I don't like the new look of the Windows Explorer however, too confusing to my taste. I can't make my mind that the little triangles have replaced the good old +/- in the treeview and that they appear only when you hover the mouse over it.
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>>>>What bother me most however is that VFP completly mess up the Windows Explorer and the taskbar when it been running for a couple of hours. Only a reboot clean it up.
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>>>>>Been playing with Vista some more and I must give credit where credit is due - the visual effects are quite amazing. The application window panning/scrolling, Aero theme, application preview thumbnails, and other visual effects are quite impressive. Great for customer demos :)