Windows Defragmenter

[pwrigh]

Hi

I have a Win98 machine which is running particularly slowly. I've narrowed this down to lack of memory - but during my diagnosis, thought I'd run some standard maintenance procedures as a matter of course.

I have problems when trying to run Disk Defragmenter. I've ensured there's nothing running that doesn't need to be - virus scanners shut down, no screen saver switched on etc. Trouble is, Disk Defragmenter keeps detecting that "Contents of disk have changed" - and restarts itself. It rarely moves from 0% completed (though very occasionally jumps from 0% to 5% before restarting itself).

I've run a thorough scandisk (including surface scan) and there are no problems reported - so I don't know why this should be. Does anybody have any ideas?


Thanks in advance
Pete

 

[cheesehead]

If you are to do a control+alt+delete and view all of the programs that are running, you might find something running that you were unaware of (such as the systray) I do not know what all software you have on your machine but this has worked for me on a number of occasions and on a variety of machines

 

[nolapeck]

Copy this into notepad and save as runonce.reg.

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx]
"Flags"=dword:00000003
"Title"="Defrag at Startup"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx\Defrag]
"Cmd"="||DEFRAG.EXE /ALL"

Double click on the reg file to import it into your registry and reboot. Defrag will come up before anything else and run.

Patrick

 

[paulwood]

Run defrag in safe mode.

 

[reghakr]

Pete,

Close all tray applications and hit Alt_Ctl_Del and end task on all items except for explorer and systray, then run scandisk, then defrag.

Then right-click on the desktop, choose properties, click the Screen saver tab and choose "None:"

Now give it a try.

Also, go to

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com,

upgrade Internet Explorer, then go back and download all Critical Updates.

reghakr