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defraging win98
Scandisk works fine..defrag wont work anymore. Says
checking for errors and never noves on. I shut down everything including mcaffee and same result..nothing. This began about 3 weeks ago defrag worked great up untill then. HELP please |
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defraging win98
See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "sally" wrote in message ... Scandisk works fine..defrag wont work anymore. Says checking for errors and never noves on. I shut down everything including mcaffee and same result..nothing. This began about 3 weeks ago defrag worked great up untill then. HELP please |
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defraging win98
Does it constantly restart?
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q286263 Articles about Defrag It may be worth a try to... (1) Delete the contents of C:\Windows\TEMP. Delete contents only. Under normal circumstances, C:\WINDOWS\TEMP can be cleared of files/folders after a fresh boot. You need the fresh boot, because something may be sitting there, waiting to "complete" an install. You will likely have seen a message about it, though. Anyway, you should know whether you've installed something since boot. Now, some files may return after the delete. "WebPoolFileFile" is one. That will come back next boot or when you run McAfee. I have seen one poster who objected, saying one should browse through those files, looking for .log's. He said it might be interesting to see whether there is an error message or something inside. It was too late for me by then. Naturally, if you have actually installed something into TEMP, there might be a Registry connection to it. Those, you need to un/re-install elsewhere. Finally, I even saw a poster who had system files in there, perhaps it was the Temporary Internet Files in there. That shouldn't be! Well, to be certain, is C:\Windows\TEMP mentioned in any of these Registry keys? HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\She ll Folders HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Explorer\Use r Shell Folders (2) "Control Panel, Internet Options, Delete Files button, bolt Delete all offline content, OK, OK" These were your Temporary Internet Files, which, since V4, has an involvement with Windows Update. It's main purpose is to hold bits/pieces of sites you visit, to make it quicker to load next visit. Also, it is a work area for OE6. Naturally, TIFs will grow back. It's size is controllable by the slider & input box under the Settings button. (3) Most of the following shall never return again, and were work files, pre-V4: (a) "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab"; bolt "Show all files" & UNcheck "Hide file extensions...". (b) Open Explorer to "C:\Program Files\WindowsUpdate", and (c) Delete everything in this folder EXCEPT the V4 folder. (d) Open the V4 folder, and delete everything in it EXCEPT for the "iuhist.xml" file. (4) http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q238165 Deleting APPLOG Content (a) You won't even see it, unless "START, Settings, Folder Options, View tab" is bolted "Show all files"; may as well uncheck "Hide file extensions..." too. (b) START, Find, Files or Folders, Applog" (c) Double-click the Applog folder to open it. (d) On the Edit menu, click Select all. (e) On the File menu, click Delete, and then click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the deletion. APPLOG is used by Defrag to optimize the location of files on your partition. (Some files in it seem extraordinarily large.) It will be recreated and the contents will accumulate, as the second time any app is run it generates an .LGC in that folder. (Optlog.txt, in that folder, will be recreated, when next you Defrag. Save the old one only to retain a record of every app that has run, at least twice, to the date of your last Defrag.) (5) Also, do you have SpyBot? Then... "START, Find, F/F, 'Checks*.*, Fixes*.*'" (No quotes; yes comma). If you have a ton of these, then delete them. Go to the Settings screen of SpyBot, & turn off both the Checks & Fixes logs. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "sally" wrote in message ... | Scandisk works fine..defrag wont work anymore. Says | checking for errors and never noves on. I shut down | everything including mcaffee and same result..nothing. | This began about 3 weeks ago defrag worked great up untill | then. HELP please |
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defraging win98
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:18:15 -0700, "sally"
wrote: Scandisk works fine..defrag wont work anymore. Says checking for errors and never noves on. I shut down everything including mcaffee and same result..nothing. This began about 3 weeks ago defrag worked great up untill then. HELP please Sally, Something may be accessing disk, when it does Defrag starts over. Try turning off the screensaver too. If no help try it from Windows Safe Mode and turn off the screensaver. Startup programs are by-passed in Safe Mode. Regards, Bill Watt Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/ |
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Temp files WAS: defraging win98
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:19:54 -0400, "PCR" wrote:
Does it constantly restart? http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q286263 Articles about Defrag It may be worth a try to... (1) Delete the contents of C:\Windows\TEMP. Delete contents only. Under normal circumstances, C:\WINDOWS\TEMP can be cleared of files/folders after a fresh boot. You need the fresh boot, because something may be sitting there, waiting to "complete" an install. You will likely have seen a message about it, though. Anyway, you should know whether you've installed something since boot. Now, some files may return after the delete. "WebPoolFileFile" is one. That will come back next boot or when you run McAfee. I've noticed several folders in my C:\Windows\TEMP folder myself their contens ranging from what appeard to be portions of NERO, various dlls (for example in nsk32F0.TMP there is a copy of nsisdl.dl (whatever that is) etc... can these be deleted without causing problems as well? Neil |
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Temp files WAS: defraging win98
So it has been said. If you are truly fearful, copy them to a safe place
for delete after a week of reasonably smooth operation. I will provide a list of those to blame, should things go cablooey. -- Thanks or Good Luck, There may be humor in this post, and, Naturally, you will not sue, should things get worse after this, PCR "Robyn, Duke of Amber" wrote in message ... | On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 21:19:54 -0400, "PCR" wrote: | | Does it constantly restart? | http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q286263 | Articles about Defrag | | It may be worth a try to... | | (1) Delete the contents of C:\Windows\TEMP. Delete contents only. | | Under normal circumstances, C:\WINDOWS\TEMP can be cleared of | files/folders after a fresh boot. You need the fresh boot, because | something may be sitting there, waiting to "complete" an install. You | will likely have seen a message about it, though. Anyway, you should | know whether you've installed something since boot. Now, some files may | return after the delete. "WebPoolFileFile" is one. That will come back | next boot or when you run McAfee. | | | I've noticed several folders in my C:\Windows\TEMP folder myself | their contens ranging from what appeard to be portions of NERO, | various dlls (for example in nsk32F0.TMP there is a copy of nsisdl.dl | (whatever that is) etc... can these be deleted without causing | problems as well? | | Neil | | |
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