defrag problem

[Guest]

cannot get defrag to work in xp home...worked the last time i used it a
month ago
any suggestions?

 

[Rock]

cannot get defrag to work in xp home...worked the last time i used it a
month ago

It might give someone an idea of how to help if you say what happens when
defrag is run. Any error messages? What changes have been made to the
system between when it worked and now? What troubleshooting have you tried?
Review this link on making a good newsgroup post, resubmit with more
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[Wesley Vogel]

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 Startup type to Automatic | 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

If that doesn't fix it...

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

Start | Run | Type: regsvr32 dfrgsnap.dll | 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

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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