Defrag Just won't!!

[Guest]

I have had xp installed for about 4 weeks now having upgraded fromME any way
try as I may when I go to defrag it analizes goes to defrag and stips on 1%
forever and I mean hours I have stopped my screen save I have installed all
updates (as told to by my local PC shop) but no it isn't having it.
When I defraged in ME I use to use control/alt/delete and used to shut down
everything except for explorer and system and it used to work fine, but when
I do this a huge list comes up now and as I work my way through them I look
up and it says windows is going to shut now ( obviously I stopped something I
shouldn't have) and then I am back to square 1 please can anyone help?

 

[Guest]

Upgrades are always very buggy in my experience. ME to XP? I've not dealt
with that particular scenario but my gut reaction is that you are lucky to
only have problems defregging!

Save your data and then do a clean install. You will be much happier.

 

[Conor]

I have had xp installed for about 4 weeks now having upgraded fromME any way
try as I may when I go to defrag it analizes goes to defrag and stips on 1%
forever and I mean hours I have stopped my screen save I have installed all
updates (as told to by my local PC shop) but no it isn't having it.
When I defraged in ME I use to use control/alt/delete and used to shut down
everything except for explorer and system and it used to work fine, but when
I do this a huge list comes up now and as I work my way through them I look
up and it says windows is going to shut now ( obviously I stopped something I
shouldn't have) and then I am back to square 1 please can anyone help?

Try this.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Diskeeper_Lite_d1207.html

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Conor

If Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened
rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic
music.

 

[Heirloom]

or.......you could start your system in the Safe Mode (see the Help menu for
info on how-to) and run your defrag from there. If it runs okay, that means
you have a background app that is interfering by writing, or attempting to
write, to disc. This could be anything from an 'auto update' to a cable
modem attempting to renew the 'lease' on your IP address. The number of
processes that can interfere with defrag is enormous......take heart,
however, it was much worse with the 98 based systems.
Finding the offending app will require using a good process viewer.....Task
Info is a good one, but, it is $$$. A great free one is Process Explorer,
put out by www.sysinternals.com . Best wishes..........
Heirloom, old and must hook up the new
printer