Periodic maintenance is necessary for smooth performance of a system. System tools in computer like disk check, disk defragmenter, etc help in aforementioned system maintenance. It is practically impossible for administrators to manually perform these maintenance activities on individual computers.

Endpoint Central provides an option to schedule all these tasks on multiple computers simultaneously, at regular intevals. It also allows creating multiple tasks that can execute various tools on different target computers at specified intervals. Moreover, these tasks can also be scheduled during off hours so that productivity doesn't take a hit.

Disk defragmenter

Disk gets fragmented when users create or delete files and folders. The same is also caused by installation and uninstallation of programs. When a file or folder is deleted from the hard disk, the occupied space becomes free for new files. Now when a new file gets saved, the first available free space that is large enough for the file is used and the remaining part is saved in consecutive available free spaces or fragments.

Such fragmented disks brings down the performance of a system as it takes a long time to retrieve the fragmented data. Hence, periodic disk defragmentation is necessary to keep up the performance. Endpoint Central provides an option to run the disk defragmenter tool, a part of its windows operating system tools on multiple machines simultaneously. It supports the following options:

• Verbose: Displays the complete analysis and disk defragmentation reports.
• Analyze: Analyzes the volume and displays a summary of the analysis report.
• Force Defragmentation: Forces disk defragmentation regardless of whether it needs to be defragmented.

Check disks

Disk errors related to bad sectors, cross-linked files, directory errors, etc. create problems in I/O operations. The check disk tool creates a status report of the disk based on its file system. Endpoint Central supports the following options to run the check disk tool:

• Verbose: Displays the name of each file in every directory as the disk is checked.
• Quick Check: This option is available only for the NTFS File system. Selecting this option will perform the check disk operation quickly by skipping the checking of cycles within the folder structure and by performing a less vigorous check of index entries.

Disk cleanup

The disk cleanup utility helps in determining the unused files in the disk and deletes them to significantly increase the free space.