disk defragmenter will not start

[Guest]

I have looked at all the solutions for when the XP disk defragmenter error
message states "disk defragmenter could not start" and have followed all the
latest advice from http://tinyurl.com/4vbwl. In addition I have used disk
clean up and chkdsk.

It still comes up with the same error message and will not start?

 

[Guest]

I found the following on a reply and this seems to have done the trick.

Anyone getting the "Disk Defragmenter Could not start" message and on
Windows XP This is what worked for me. Go to Control Panel, Select System and
select the Advance Tab. Now Select Settings Under Performance and again
select the advance tab. Under Virtual Memory select Change. Make sure that
the Paging File Size for selected Drive for the Drive partition you want to
Defrag has either a custom at least 2 times the amount of installed RAM if
the space is available or 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 !!!

All the best

 

[meherlahashbaz]

I found the following on a reply and this seems to have done the trick.

Anyone getting the "Disk Defragmenter Could not start" message and on
Windows XP This is what worked for me. Go to Control Panel, Select System and
select the Advance Tab. Now Select Settings Under Performance and again
select the advance tab. Under Virtual Memory select Change. Make sure that
the Paging File Size for selected Drive for the Drive partition you want to
Defrag has either a custom at least 2 times the amount of installed RAM if
the space is available or 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 !!!

All the best

As a special aside, In the pagefile area of 'system
properties' (advanced|pagefile & memory|) once you change
the pagefile settings, click on the 'set pagefile' button,if
you use the custom setting.