if defrag restarts, something is writing to the disk
my paranoia screams virus.spyware
but it can be any of hundreds utility programs that are set to start at boot
(many of which really shouldnt)
use ctrl-alt-del to find what is running,
then use each programs shut down to close it down
till defrag runs as it should
or restart in safe mode, but defrag will run slowly

consider installing windows ME defrag, it is ridiculously faster than
windows98 or 98SE

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Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Cool Web Shredder http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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"susancats42" wrote in message
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I have Windows 98SE. I am attempting to use Maintenance Wizard. I will run
thru Disk Cleanup and Scan Disk fine, but the Defragmenting part of the
process seems to get stuck at 10%. I have had it running over night and
still
all I get is 10%. Sometime I will see message file changed starting over.
I
am getting message that my C drive doesn't have room for much of anything
to
I think I 'm on the right track but defrag seems stuck. Any idea would be
great.

Susan