Defrag

[Peter]

I was unable to defrag because it never got past 1% even after I
discativated firewall/virusscan/and I think windows update.

The defrag programme got stuck and I had to reboot. The file check came up
with a couple of problems which it truncated. One of them referred to
Windows/ prefetch/taskmgr.exe

What should I do now? So far the system seems to work ok, but something
obviously went very wrong!

Thanks for your help

 

[Someone]

I would first delete all the prefetch stuff (one way of doing it is to
search for it) and then do the defrag in safe mode (tap F8 repeatedly upon
boot-up).

 

[Kenny]

Easy way to clean Prefetch is CleanCache 3.2. Does more besides and it's
free.
http://www.buttuglysoftware.com/

 

[Rock]

I was unable to defrag because it never got past 1% even after I
discativated firewall/virusscan/and I think windows update.

The defrag programme got stuck and I had to reboot. The file check came up
with a couple of problems which it truncated. One of them referred to
Windows/ prefetch/taskmgr.exe

What should I do now? So far the system seems to work ok, but something
obviously went very wrong!

Thanks for your help

Boot into safe mode and try running defrag.