defrag.exe

Hi

Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I am no
longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I should do?

Thank you in advance

Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
outside chance you've picked up a nasty.

Do you have antivirus software?
Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
Have you scanned for viruses?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I am
> no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I should
> do?
>
> Thank you in advance

Yes, I have nortons installed and run it regularly.

Please note that I can run defrag from ...c: drive > select Properites >
Tools....

The problem is that I cannot launch it from C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe
directory.

Any ideas?

"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
> outside chance you've picked up a nasty.
>
> Do you have antivirus software?
> Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
> Have you scanned for viruses?
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions
>
> "Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23cZ4dMhTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
>> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I am
>> no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I should
>> do?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>
>

Hello,

Running defrag from that directly is a console (or command-line) type.

To run the windows GUI, you have to execute "%SystemRoot%\system32\dfrg.msc"

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"Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, I have nortons installed and run it regularly.
>
> Please note that I can run defrag from ...c: drive > select Properites >
> Tools....
>
> The problem is that I cannot launch it from C:\WINDOWS\system32\defrag.exe
> directory.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> "Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:uTPX1RhTHHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
>> outside chance you've picked up a nasty.
>>
>> Do you have antivirus software?
>> Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
>> Have you scanned for viruses?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>> Computer Solutions
>>
>> "Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23cZ4dMhTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I
>>> am no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I
>>> should do?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance
>>
>>
>
>

Defrag needs at least 15% free space on the hard drive to run. How much
free space do you have.
Also, you can run defrag my right clicking My Computer, choose Manage, then
defrag.


"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
news:uTPX1RhTHHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
> outside chance you've picked up a nasty.
>
> Do you have antivirus software?
> Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
> Have you scanned for viruses?
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions
>
> "Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23cZ4dMhTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
>> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I am
>> no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I should
>> do?
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>
>

On last trying to defrag a heavily populated hard disk it needed 4% not 15%.
It then gave an option to proceed anyway - which it did. It doesn't sound
as though this is the cause of the OP's problem.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Maincat" <steve@nospam.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Defrag needs at least 15% free space on the hard drive to run. How much
> free space do you have.
> Also, you can run defrag my right clicking My Computer, choose Manage,
> then defrag.
>
>
> "Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:uTPX1RhTHHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
>> outside chance you've picked up a nasty.
>>
>> Do you have antivirus software?
>> Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
>> Have you scanned for viruses?
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway
>> Computer Solutions
>>
>> "Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23cZ4dMhTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I
>>> am no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I
>>> should do?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance

Only going on what MS say. What do they know?

"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On last trying to defrag a heavily populated hard disk it needed 4% not
> 15%. It then gave an option to proceed anyway - which it did. It doesn't
> sound as though this is the cause of the OP's problem.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions
>
> "Maincat" <steve@nospam.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:OLdh5frTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Defrag needs at least 15% free space on the hard drive to run. How much
>> free space do you have.
>> Also, you can run defrag my right clicking My Computer, choose Manage,
>> then defrag.
>>
>>
>> "Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:uTPX1RhTHHA.3980@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Viruses attack executable files and prevent them from running. It's an
>>> outside chance you've picked up a nasty.
>>>
>>> Do you have antivirus software?
>>> Have you updated it recently (to get up-to-date virus signatures)?
>>> Have you scanned for viruses?
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> Bill Ridgeway
>>> Computer Solutions
>>>
>>> "Apr" <noreply@mail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:%23cZ4dMhTHHA.3592@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I
>>>> am no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I
>>>> should do?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance
>
>

What do they know?
They made a botch of converting Giant Spyware (a perfectly working piece of
software) to Windows Defender Beta1 through to Beta2. There were many
references to Giant Spyware remaining and it didn't work very well.

They have upgraded IE6 to IE7 and taken out some functions which were part
of the basic ethos of Windows.

There are, presumably, other examples.

I'll leave it to answer your own question.

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway
Computer Solutions

"Maincat" <steve@nospam.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Only going on what MS say. What do they know?

Why are you getting at me? I'm just trying to help. Actually, MS probably
forgot more than you know. See, we can both shout at each other.

I'll tell you what they know. Since you have widened the discussion to anti
spyware for some reason, have you got any idea just how complex say Windows
Server 2003 is? Have you studied it? Are you MS certified? WTF is 'the
basic ethos of Windows'? Frankly, I just don't believe you when you say
that a drive defragged at 96% capacity.

I'm not coming back to this thread so don't bother to reply to me.

"Bill Ridgeway" <info@1001solutions.co.uk> wrote in message
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> What do they know?
> They made a botch of converting Giant Spyware (a perfectly working piece
> of software) to Windows Defender Beta1 through to Beta2. There were many
> references to Giant Spyware remaining and it didn't work very well.
>
> They have upgraded IE6 to IE7 and taken out some functions which were part
> of the basic ethos of Windows.
>
> There are, presumably, other examples.
>
> I'll leave it to answer your own question.
>
> Regards.
>
> Bill Ridgeway
> Computer Solutions
>
> "Maincat" <steve@nospam.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:%23UyB8WsTHHA.4668@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Only going on what MS say. What do they know?
>
>

Nothing happens when clicking on Defragment or Analyze in Disk Defragmenter
(dfrg.msc).

With XP SP2 the DCOM Server Process Launcher service needs to be running for
Defrag to work.

Open Services...
Start | Run | Type: services.msc | Click OK |
Scroll down to and double click DCOM Server Process Launcher |
Set the startup type to Automatic | Click Apply |
Click the Start button | When the service starts, click OK |
Close Services | Reboot

<quote>
Note the following things will fail if this service is not running:
The builtin defrag will fail to work, and if running defrag from the command
line one gets this error:
Windows cannot connect to the Disk Defragmenter engine
<quote>
from...
DCOM Server Process Launcher
http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/service/def.html

Fix Windows Built in Defragmenter.

Start | Run | Type: regsvr32 dfrgui.dll | Click OK

You should get a RegSvr32 message: DllRegisterServer in dfrgui.dll
succeeded. Click OK.

Start | Run | Type: regsvr32 dfrgsnap.dll | Click OK

You should get a RegSvr32 message: DllRegisterServer in dfrgsnap.dll
succeeded. Click OK.

Then navigate to C:\Windows\Inf ...
Start | Run | Type: %windir%\inf | Click OK |
Locate dfrg.inf, right click on dfrg.inf and click on Install

<quote>
Anyone getting the "Disk Defragmenter Could not start" message and on
Windows XP Home This is what worked for me. Go to Control Panel, Select
System and select the Advanced Tab. Now Select Settings Under Performance
and again select the advanced tab. Under Virtual Memory select Change. Make
sure that the Paging File Size for selected Drive for the Drive partition
you want to Defrag is set to System Managed Size. Once I did this Defrag
started working again. I don't know how the Page file got turned off on my
system but this has been driving me mad for months!! Hope it helps someone
else out there !!!
John B
<quote>
Found at...
http://www.andreasroom.com/blog/arc.../18/defrag.aspx

How to fix Disk Defragmenter problems in Windows XP
http://www.winhelponline.com/articl...Windows-XP.html

Note if having disabled or set a low custom size for the pagefile, then
defrag might not work. If using WinXP set the virtual memory to "System
Managed Size".
26. Repair Disk Defragmenter in Windows 2000/XP
http://smallvoid.com/tweak/winnt/install.html#DEFRAG

Disk Defragmenter does not work on a Windows XP-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922379

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Apr <noreply@mail.com> hunted and pecked:
> Hi
>
> Defrag.exe will not run. It has run many times in the past but now, I am
> no longer run the application. Please can you let me know what I should
> do?
>
> Thank you in advance