Doing some maintenance on an older Windows 2000 machine that's been
acting a bit odd lately. There are four partitions on the main HDD, of
which the last one is NTFS. It shows 24% free, but when I run defrag,
it does the initial analysis and announces that there's 24% free, the
defrag tool wants 8%, and the usual warning about needing 15%. Been
like this for several days, without regard to reboots or any minor
tweaks I can figure out. Telling it to go ahead with the defrag seems
to succeed, and the results seem to be pretty good, but still...
Only minor wrinkle is that it's a Japanese version of the OS, but
factory installed and with no major tweaks. No, Gertrude, I think I've
done the obvious stuff, and there's nothing in the recycler, and I've
searched the newsgroups (*MANY* times with all sorts of keywords) and
even Microsoft's "support" site and come up with no obvious matches.
Suggestions or ideas? Diagnostics?
(I can't imagine there's a relationship, but I'll go ahead and note
that one of the other weird things it did recently involved some
apparent confusion in the network settings that tended to route
certain Internet traffic through a SOCKS server that we were
retiring.)
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