defragmenting

My computer originally had Windows 98 and I upgraded to
Windows ME. I haven't defragged as frequently as I
should have and am experiencing significant times for
applications to open. When I start the defragging
process, 3 hours can pass by with no defragmenting
completed. Why is nothing being completed? I have a 4
GB Compaq presario.

Have you tried doing it in safe mode?

Alias

"jack" wrote

My computer originally had Windows 98 and I upgraded to
Windows ME. I haven't defragged as frequently as I
should have and am experiencing significant times for
applications to open. When I start the defragging
process, 3 hours can pass by with no defragmenting
completed. Why is nothing being completed? I have a 4
GB Compaq presario.

Your slow computer may have nothing to do with tardy defragging.....

You may have a virus/spyware hijack

download the Stinger from here and run it to make sure that A-V-disabling
viruses are not present on your PC
http://download.nai.com/products/mca...rt/stinger.exe

- update your virus scanner and run a full system scan of all files.

Reboot to Safe Mode and run CWShredder - to remove variants of the
CoolWebSearch hijacker.
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html

Use CWShredder, the removal tool:
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/CWShredder.exe
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads...CWShredder.exe
http://www.zerosrealm.com/downloads/CWShredder.zip

download AdAware from www.lavasoftusa.com, install, update, and run it to
remove spyware, adware,
and other such nasties from your system.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp

"jack" wrote in message
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My computer originally had Windows 98 and I upgraded to
Windows ME. I haven't defragged as frequently as I
should have and am experiencing significant times for
applications to open. When I start the defragging
process, 3 hours can pass by with no defragmenting
completed. Why is nothing being completed? I have a 4
GB Compaq presario.

You need to Ctrl+Alt+Delete and close everything thats
running until only systray and explorer are left. You'll
then be able to defrag, hopefully without any problems.
Doreen
-----Original Message-----
My computer originally had Windows 98 and I upgraded to
Windows ME. I haven't defragged as frequently as I
should have and am experiencing significant times for
applications to open. When I start the defragging
process, 3 hours can pass by with no defragmenting
completed. Why is nothing being completed? I have a 4
GB Compaq presario.
.