I was having problem with my computer slowing down and jerky mouse. Someone said to defrag my hard drive. Does this usually take over a 1 1/2 hour ad still not done. It would say "reading drive" go to 10% wait about 10 sec and then either go to defrag to about 61% and start over or say something like "restarting content drive." It was like it was stuck in a loop or something and now the computer is twice as slow as before the defrag.I haven't done anything recently except change my AV program to "files and programs only." Someone said that also might be giving me trouble. Any suggestions?
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Defrag Forever????? 5
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If your computer is fragmented really bad before you started to Defrag it will take a long time to complete, especially if you are running Win98. I would just make sure you have no other programs running at the time of defragmenting or any antivirus programs running.
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The defrag program (at least, the 1st time you run it) really needs there to be nothing else running (well, nothing accessing the disk).
This means, shut down everything else that you can - this includes screen savers, anti-virus software and items in the system tray. If you're not sure you've got everything, try <Alt><Ctrl><Del> and End Task anything you don't need.
This should allow defrag to run through without any annoying interruptions ;-) One by one, the penguins steal my sanity. X-)
This means, shut down everything else that you can - this includes screen savers, anti-virus software and items in the system tray. If you're not sure you've got everything, try <Alt><Ctrl><Del> and End Task anything you don't need.
This should allow defrag to run through without any annoying interruptions ;-) One by one, the penguins steal my sanity. X-)
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I disabled my AV program, and made sure nothing was running, but it will still go to "10% complete" and the read "Drive's content changed: restarting." It does this over and over. Is this normal and just part of the process? It just seems that it's not advancing any farther. How long should I let this continue before stopping it, and if this isn't right, any ideas how to fix it?
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You can always turn the color display on and watch all the bits move around on your screen.
You really have to make sure nothing is running. Especially the pesky screensavers and the power management programs. Stuff like the realaudio stuff in the system tray, or a virus scanner or some kind of network junk if you have that. If you have a hardware monitor that will affect it also. We know it takes forever. We feel your pain.
Try booting into safe mode and trying it. It may get better results. I don't know if it will work like that or not. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.
You really have to make sure nothing is running. Especially the pesky screensavers and the power management programs. Stuff like the realaudio stuff in the system tray, or a virus scanner or some kind of network junk if you have that. If you have a hardware monitor that will affect it also. We know it takes forever. We feel your pain.
Try booting into safe mode and trying it. It may get better results. I don't know if it will work like that or not. If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.
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Don't move your mouse during the de-frag. It will start all over again. If you haven't done it in a while it could take 8 hours to de-frag a 10GB disk if it is badly fragged up.
I start mine when I go to bed and wake up with it all finished. No programs can be running in the background. Do a Ctl-Alt-Del on everything but Explorer and Systray. I set my screen saver to "none" just in case. Download and run Adaware from to remove all your spyware in case one of those is running in the background. If all else fails de-frag in safemode and leave the PC alone until it is finished.
I start mine when I go to bed and wake up with it all finished. No programs can be running in the background. Do a Ctl-Alt-Del on everything but Explorer and Systray. I set my screen saver to "none" just in case. Download and run Adaware from to remove all your spyware in case one of those is running in the background. If all else fails de-frag in safemode and leave the PC alone until it is finished.
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