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Cannot run "Contig" (defrag tool) as Admin on Vista Neil Jones 12-27-2008
Posted by Neil Jones on December 27, 2008, 6:50 am
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I have a Vista Ultimate on my system. I want to defrag some specific
directories/files, so I have downloaded "Contig" (sysinternals toolset)
from the Microsoft site. When I try to run this tool as normal user I
got "Access Denied" message. I have logged in as the System
Administrator and got the same "Access Denied" message.

How can I run the "Contig" tool on Vista? What are the proper settings?

Thank you in advance.

NJ

Posted by 1PW on December 27, 2008, 11:52 am
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On 12/27/2008 03:50 AM, Neil Jones sent:
> I have a Vista Ultimate on my system. I want to defrag some specific
> directories/files, so I have downloaded "Contig" (sysinternals toolset)
> from the Microsoft site. When I try to run this tool as normal user I
> got "Access Denied" message. I have logged in as the System
> Administrator and got the same "Access Denied" message.
>
> How can I run the "Contig" tool on Vista? What are the proper settings?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ

Hello Neil:

Could it be possible that "Contig" was installed with a user account
instead of an account with Administrator access? Perhaps "Contig"
needs to /both/ be installed with and run under an Administrator
account.

Pete
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Posted by Guy on December 27, 2008, 1:17 pm
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Neil Jones wrote:

> I have a Vista Ultimate on my system. When I try to run
> this tool as normal user I got "Access Denied" message. I have
> logged in as the System Administrator and got the same "Access
> Denied" message.
>
> How can I run the "Contig" tool on Vista? What are the proper
> settings?
>



See if this helps:
<http://forum.sysinternals.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=16591&PID=81987>
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Posted by Neil W Rickert on December 28, 2008, 4:22 pm
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>I have a Vista Ultimate on my system. I want to defrag some specific
>directories/files, so I have downloaded "Contig" (sysinternals toolset)
>from the Microsoft site. When I try to run this tool as normal user I
>got "Access Denied" message. I have logged in as the System
>Administrator and got the same "Access Denied" message.

If you are starting "Contig" via the GUI, the try right clicking
on it and the "RunAs Administrator".

If you are starting it from a command prompt, the right click
on the "Command Prompt" menu item, select "RunAs Administrator",
then start the application while running as administrator.

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