International Business Machines Corporation

Steve Francis Best

Kuang Hu

Zhi Hua Pan

Guo Jun Zhang

David John Kleikamp

Hui J He

The present invention provides a method and apparatus for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options. A method for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options in accordance with an embodiment includes: when receiving a shutdown command from a user, determining, based on a setting of computer working hours by the user, whether a current time of the system is within the working hours of the computer; and performing at least one of setting a shutdown option according to the determination result and presenting a shutdown option according to the determination result.

Method and apparatus for setting computer-working-hours-based shutdown options

This invention involves a method to modify that an operation needs to be done on a file system. This involves the concept of &ldquo;defragmentation&rdquo;, which is the process of rewriting parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a hard disk to increase the speed of access and retrieval. The present invention provides a system administrator who sets up a profile of when the file system should have the defragmentation utility run. There would be two fields in the profile; one for the number of times that contiguous allocation failed and the other is the size of the allocation. No application (file system utility) that uses the file system to tell when it is fragmented and that a defragmentation utility needs to be run.

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Steve Francis Best