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Defragmenting
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 |
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Defragmenting
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 -- - 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 _ "susancats42" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Defragmenting
See my article, "Clean Boot -- What it is and why you need it", first link
in my signature. Stop using Maintenance Manager entirely. A word about Defrag's "10%"... When Defrag starts, the first thing it does is check the disk integrity. It then processes the data from APPLOG (which is derived from Task Monitor), to figure out how to optimize the positioning of the most-used system modules. Finally, it actually starts to defrag. During this entire set of procedures, the progress bar says 10%. Then it sits there, not moving, until the actual progress of defragmentation reaches 10%, at which point the progress bar starts showing actual progress. Yes, Windows ME (Millenium Edition) defrag is much faster and less likely to restart if something else happens on the system. However, I don't know anywhere you can get it that I can recommend. Maybe you know someone with Windows ME? In any case, if you can get hold of that version of DEFRAG.EXE, just replace your existing version with that one. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm http://grystmill.com/articles/security.htm "susancats42" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Defragmenting
"susancats42" wrote in message ... 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 Have you tried running it in Safe Mode to see if it is any different? Alan |
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