Windows Vista Defrag - Fail

Yet another stupid user interface design by Microsoft. This time I attempted to defrag a machine. The last time I remember defragging a system was with windows 2000/XP. I recalled it would give you a screen showing you a percentage of the disk that was fragmented, so you could evidently make a smart decision on whether you need to degragment the disk.


Well unfortunately simply going to the defrag UI in Vista is not the same. When I loaded the defrag utility from the start menu (which is another pain in the ass UI I won't discuss) I was presented with the following.


Yet another User Interface designed for apes! I am really tired of Microsoft hiding advanced options to avoid confusing their users. I didn't think that a simple color chart showing the fragmentation on disk would confuse people. Hell, they went even further and took the easy route and didn't display a progress bar. Instead it simply says

"This may take from a few minutes to a few hours".

I don't know about you, but whenever I ask my computer to do something I like for it to have somewhat of an accurate time frame on when its going to complete the task.

Who is Microsoft hiring these days? Who is overlooking these design decisions? Does Microsoft even care anymore or are they more focused on making a new search engine to compete with Google (which is a total piece of crap)?

If anyone knows who the developer for the defrag UI please have them contact me. I hope to god it wasn't more than one developer, similar to the shutdown menu, if so Microsoft is in trouble.

Goodbye defrag!