Defrag problems

[Guest]

Hi All,

I am requesting some assistance with my Pc and defragmentation issues. I am
running XP home SP2 on a 80G hard drive. When I try running the defrag
software within XP I get an error message stating "initialize error". I have
run check disk and a HD regeneration program, both reported no errors. I
have also tried Diskeeper which also prodice an "initialisation error"
message.

Can anyone shed some light on this problem ??

Many Thanks

 

[Guest]

Try doing it in Safe mode.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

Snap-in failed to initialize?

How To Fix Windows Built in Defragmenter
http://www.andreasroom.com/blog/archive/2004/01/18/defrag.aspx

When you installed Diskeeper it probably disabled the built-in defrag.

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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[Guest]

The solutions you suggest did not help me...
Tried all on this site to no avail.
The error I get is "snap in failed" with all the numbers shown on the
illustration.
Any other suggeston?
No I have never used a 3rd party tool of any sort. I lost access right
after the last Microsoft "automatic update".