Ongoing Problem With Defragmenting

[Janine]

I recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP. The problem I
have been having is that when I used the defragmenting
tool in XP, it would take an hour to defragment
everytime. I downloaded DiskKeeper software which is a
defragmenting tool, and it took 2 hours the first time I
ran it and everytime now, it still takes about an hour.
I don't think I have anything running in the background.
I disabled Norton Antivirus and screensaver and anything
else that I noticed was running. Can anyone help me?

Janine

 

[Nick Burns]

How fast is your computer...? How often do you defrag...? Do you run disk
cleanup first before you defrag..? Does the defrag graph look very bad..?

 

[Janine]

I do disk cleanup everytime before I defragment and I am
running a computer that is 2.1 ghz.

 

[Nick Burns]

If you defrag then turn around and defrag again, what is the time..?
How often do you defrag.?

 

[Jason Haynes]

Try running defrag in safe mode. Unneeded services aren't running in safe
mode and therefore won't interrupt the defrag process.