Fix your Word documents from opening very slow do the following
Search for normal. dot. When found rename it to normal.old. Then open Word and voila
magically Word documents and files will open as quick as if Word was just installed
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"Sylvia M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> This may be too long an explanation for my problem, sorry, I'm just trying to
> define it so as to get a solution....
>
> On my HP PC, XP, ,2005, 250 GB, SP3
>
> When my Word documents started hanging, coming up very slowly, I went into Defrag
> and analyzed C, I have never seen it as fragmented: Lots of red = fragmented, lots
> of white = free space intermingled, and in blue=contiguous it is broken up with
> lots of white intermingled.
>
> I can't think of anything that I did, or downloaded, that would have caused the
> fragmentation. I scanned for viruses, negative.
>
>
> In trying to defragment this C drive, it gets as far as compacting files, and
> after about 5% defrag, a pop-up says "Defrag complete...Some files on this volume
> could not be defragmented. Please check the defragmentation report for the list
> of these files."
> -------------------------------------
> Defrag report reads in part:
> Free Space = 51%
> Total Frag:16% , File frag 32%, free space frag 0%
> Total Fragmented files =3
> Total Excess fragments = 12,479 Average fragments per file 1.05
> Pagefile fragmentation
> Pagefile size 1.40 GB
> Fragmented folders = 1
> Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation:
> Total MFT size =282 MB
> MFT record count 234,445, %MFT in use 81%
> Total MFT fragments = 3
>
> BUT no information on "Files that did not fragment"
> ----------------------------------------
> Next, I ran chkdsk, and then ran defrag again with same results.
>
> I read some more, went to command prompt and tried to force defragmentation, but
> I'm having trouble even getting the correct command to see if this I can Force a
> defrag.
> I get as far as C:|WINDOWS\Help> automatically coming up, but what I type in is
> not accepted. This is where I believe that someone might help me, because once
> the command takes, it Might clear up the defrag problem.
>
> Given:
> "Usage:
> defrag <volume> [-a] [-f] [-v] [-?]
> volume drive letter or mount point (d: or d:\vol\mountpoint)
> -a Analyze only
> -f Force defragmentation even if free space is low
> -v Verbose output
> -? Display this help text "
>
> The very last line I put in,
> C:\WINDOWS\Help> <d: Volume HP_PAVILION (C) [-f] [-v]
> command prompt gave the response of: "Access is denied."
>
> Previously I have put in the following, and mainly get 'The system cannot find the
> file specified'
> I have tried variously:
> defrag <volume> HP_PAVILION (C)[f]
> and <C>[-f] and was replied with 'The system cannot find the file specified'
> then I tried <C>[-f] which answered "The syntax of the command is incorrect"
> When I put in:defrag (d;C) [-f] [-v] [-?] I was given this clue:
> "The volume identifier is not valid. The volume identifier must be a valid local
> drive letter or mount point."
> That's when I modified to:C:\WINDOWS\Help> <d: Volume HP_PAVILION (C) [-f] [-v]
> and was given the response of: "Access is denied."
>
> Please help first with the correct command line.
> I'll report back if I can or if I can't force a more complete defrag.
>
> T.I.A.
>
> Sylvia M.
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