Analyze and Defragment buttons in Disk Defragmenter console do nothing?
- By Ramesh Srinivasan
- Published March 12, 2006
DCom Server Process Launcher (DComLaunch) service was introduced in Windows XP SP2. One of the major side-effects user face after disabling the DComLaunch service is that the Disk Defragmenter console fails to operate. The Analyze and Defragment buttons do nothing. Also, launching the console Defrag (defrag.exe) utility causes the following error:
Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine
The above tip was published in Snakefoot site, and the credit goes to them. It looks like they have moved to a new domain
Another side-effect of disabling DCOMLAUNCH.
Here is how to enable the DCOMLAUNCH service:
- Click Start, Run and type Services.msc
- Double-click DCOM Server Process Launcher
- Set its startup type to Automatic
- Restart Windows
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1 Response to "Analyze and Defragment buttons in Disk Defragmenter console do nothing?" 
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said this on 22 Apr 2006 8:01:46 PM PDT
I tried this and everything listed is already there and it still doesn't work. When I was in the Server Process Laucher and clicked on dependencies, I got an error message Win32: Access denied. I don't know what to do. Microsoft update website does not work, firewall is corrupted and defrag don't work...WOW. All of these problems because of the Windows XP Service Pack 2?
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