blogs.technet.com — Apparently since XP defrag monitoring was inaccurate and obtrusive, no Vista defrag progress monitoring. Instead it runs unobtrusively as a low-level I/O and CPU task when it can - and stops/slows soon after user activity is detected.
Feb 23, 2007 View in Crawl 4
cquinndFeb 24, 2007
It doesn't have the pretty moving blocks anymore, but you can still start the defrag command with a verbose switch, to give you an indication of what files it is working on. There are also a couple of freeware apps (PowerDefragmenter, Auslogics Defrag, and JKDefrag) that work with Vista and give you a display to view as it progresses.