Basically what I wanted to do was automate these three things that I do every once in a while on my machine (& that I always have to do on other's machines). I created a set of vbscript files to take care of things for me. I also put it into a self-extracting archive that installs it.

I came across some things that are similar to this, but I wanted to do it with just tools that are included with XP. I also wanted it fully automated. Others I've seen reboot, then wait for you to login...unless you have Windows logging in automatically.

One of the goals I had with this is to make it secure. It was a little tricky because I had to create an admin user & use the autoadmin logon feature to get to the defrag part automatically. I've done some testing and it appears to work nicely with two reboots.

These are still works in progress. I am not responsible for any damage they may do to a system.

Here is the link for the package:
http://www.pebcac.net/downloads/index.php?dir=Windows%2FUtilities%2F&download=Maintenance.exe

Here is the link for the readme file:
http://www.pebcac.net/downloads/index.php?dir=Windows%2FUtilities%2F&download=Maintenance.txt

Here is a great article from the MS TechNet site talking about working with the XP Pro file system.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx

I'm in the process of changing this. I will be using all vbscript with text files for storing information & backing up some settings. It will not automatically schedule on install either.

I have also decided to use DirMS as the defragger, since I was having problems with MS defrag utility being able to defrag large files.

Another change is the cleanup. It now cleans up all user profiles.

More info is in the readme file.