Defrag is slow

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Hi, Grim Reaper and everyone else !

Here is the list of the running processes in the task manager's window
before I run Defrag!

ImageName User Name
========= =========
taskmgr.exe Administrator
alg.exe LOCAL SERVICE
WCESMGR.EXE Administrator
McVSEscn.exe Administrator
msmsgs.exe Administrator
WCESCOMM.EXE Administrator
ctfmon.exe Administrator
hkcmd.exe Administrator
igfxtray.exe Administrator
jusched.exe Administrator
mcvsshld.exe Administrator
oasclnt.exe Administrator
mcagent.exe Administrator
McTskshd.exe SYSTEM
McShield.exe SYSTEM
Mcdetect.exe SYSTEM
inetinfo.exe SYSTEM
explorer.exe Administrator
spoolsv.exe SYSTEM
svchost.exe LOCAL SERVICE
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
svchost.exe SYSTEM
wdfmgr.exe LOCAL SERVICE
lsass.exe SYSTEM
servixces.exe SYSTEM
winlogon.exe SYSTEM
csrss.exe SYSTEM
smss.exe SYSTEM
mdm.exe SYSTEM
mcvsftsn.exe Administrator
System SYSTEM
SystemIdleProcess SYSTEM


And my transfer mode for the IDE channel Properties is set to:

DMA if Available

I hope this helps us!

OH YEAH! Another thing.... I have just started VC++ programming about 4
months ago... And I have approximately 70 little programming examples that I
have experimented with so to learn the language and so forth. Can these
examples sitting on my machine have something to do with slow defrag? I mean
the fact that I am programming structures and fetching API functions, could
this sort of mix up my hard drive..... I don't know... just a stab in the
dark!

Anyway.... computer still defrags slow however, 2 days ago I finally got it
to defrag completely in safemode, but, Yesterday I tried it in normal mode
and this morning (after 14 hours) It defraged to 52%.

Where do we go from here!

Ross
 
For a start, you can kill the following processes and see if it improves
things...
(disconnect from the internet first if I were you... :D then reboot when
you're done)

ImageName User Name (my opinion)
========= =========
WCESMGR.EXE Administrator (not needed)
msmsgs.exe Administrator (Messenger! kill it while
defragging!!)
WCESCOMM.EXE Administrator (not needed)
hkcmd.exe Administrator (not needed)
igfxtray.exe Administrator (not needed)
jusched.exe Administrator (not needed)
McVSEscn.exe Administrator (McAfee virus scanner -
definitely holding up the defragging)
mcvsshld.exe Administrator (McAfee virus scanner -
definitely holding up the defragging)
mcagent.exe Administrator (McAfee virus scanner -
definitely holding up the defragging)
McTskshd.exe SYSTEM (McAfee virus scanner - definitely
holding up the defragging)
McShield.exe SYSTEM (McAfee virus scanner - definitely
holding up the defragging)
Mcdetect.exe SYSTEM (McAfee virus scanner - definitely
holding up the defragging)
mcvsftsn.exe Administrator (McAfee virus scanner -
definitely holding up the defragging)
mdm.exe SYSTEM (not needed (while you're not programming anyway!)

And I reaaaallly hope that this one is a typo... should be services.exe....

servixces.exe SYSTEM
 
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