yes, i am logged in as the Administrator.
When I open Disk Defragmenter, the program opens up ... at the top, it
says "Disk Defragmenter". Under that are 4 folder topics:
File Action View Help
and under that, it says:
Mauzey (C
NTSF 112 78.53 70%
Under that there is no more writing ... there are 4 or 5 radio buttons
to be pressed, but no labels on the button and when you press any of
them, it freezes.
Yes, a drive in the upper pane IS selected (Mauzey (C
). I ran
chdsk /r and it changed nothing. If I click on the "Action", it just
list dead air space and then at the bottom, it says "Help".
Thanks for your help, but instead of me trying a repair option from
the Install CD, i'll just leave it broken and continue using Norton's
Speed Disk.
message Michael Mauzey said in news:%
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Yes .. but when I open the C\Windows\System32\dfrg.msc file, the
bottom half of Disk Defragmenter is totally grayed out .. just like if
I open it from my Start menu.
If I open the DOS version, it just opens a DOS box
VERY quickly and then closes it immediately!
message Michael Mauzey said in news:
[email protected]:
There really are no C\Windows\System32\dfrg.msc (Windows) or
C:\Windows\System32\defrag.exe (DOS) files on your system?
Are you logged in under an admin-level account when running the
defragmenter (dfrg.msc)? Administrator privileges are required. If
your account is not in the Administrators group, and if you do not
want to logoff, you can use 'runas /user:<adminacct> "mmc dfrg.msc"'
(note the command string is quoted because of spaces) but you will
need to supply the password for the <adminaccount>.
The DOS version open a window and closes it quickly because all it did
was present some help text and exit so the window isn't needed
anymore. ALL DOS programs are like that. You need to open a DOS
shell (aka COmmand Prompt) and run it from there (so the window stays
open). When you open a DOS shell, you load a copy of the command
interpreter (cmd.exe) which then you enter the command to run your
program. When the program exits, you get returned to the command
interpreter. Without the command interpreter, the exit of the program
results in closing a no longer needed window. If you don't want to
open a DOS shell and then enter defrag.exe then run "cmd /k
defrag.exe" which will open and LEAVE open the window with the command
interpreter still loaded after running and exiting the command.
Back to the dfrg.msc applet. When you load it, you say the bottom
half is solid gray. Or do you mean you CAN see the bottom pane but
the buttons are disabled? Is a drive from the list in the upper pane
selected? Have you run "chkdsk /r" on all hard drives and then tried
using the defragmenter?
Can you load the Disk Management applet (diskmgmt.msc) and see the
drives okay? Have you tried using the Action -> Rescan menu (and then
go back to dfrg.msc)?
The dfrg.msc is just the MMC (Microsoft Management Console) interface
that had the defragmenter snap-in added to it. That isn't the real
program. There are other files used to actually run the defragmenter
snap-in. Apparently you have some missing or corrupted files. Have
you yet tried running the System File Checker via "sfc /scannow"? If
that doesn't work to fix the defragmenter, maybe you're stuck with
booting from the Windows install CD and using the second Repair option
(the first one puts you into Recovery Console mode) to see if a repair
gets this tool fixed. If you do that, remember to run Windows Updates
to ensure you have all the latest updated files rather than anything
that got copied off the old static copies from the CD.
