Deactivating the Disk Defragmenter service

After successful partitioning, the Disk Defragmenter service should be disabled again, to make it unavailable to unauthorized users and to disable access to the storage media by the service.

Prerequisites for this step:

Completed partitioning of the storage media.

Deactivate the Disk Defragmenter service as follows:

1. In the taskbar click on Start > Control Panel.
The Control Panel window opens.

2. Click on Administrative Tools, then Services.
The Services window opens.
Deactivating the Disk Defragmenter service 1:

3. Double-click on Disk Defragmenter.
The Disk Defragmenter Properties window appears.

4. Under Startup type select the option Disabled and click OK.
Deactivating the Disk Defragmenter service 2:

The Disk Defragmenter service is now disabled.