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Is there a way we can have Power Users defrag their own hard drives in Windows XP?

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You must be administrator to run defragmentation. Some 3rd party defrag utilities, like Diskeeper can run in the background as a service which you should be able to run with admin credentials regardless of the user actually logged in.

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Thanks...I realize you have to be Admin to defraf but I was hoping there is a way to give this ability to PowerUser so they can defrag with out my intervention.

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if you use AD you should be able to set power user to run other programs and services. or set a schedule take and add the users through the security tab.

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