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royse
June 7th 04, 12:56 PM
I'm having the same problem as "joan" has with defrag. I
have a task set for Sunday night to defrag. It starts
properly but then it gets into a loop. It will complete
about 1-2% then start over at zero. It runs all night
doing the same thing , never getting over 2% complete.
When I click the mouse to open windows from being asleep I
see the defrag window showing 0,1 or 2& complete, then the
defreg window goes away. Defrag does the same thing when I
open it manually through PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM
TOOLS, DEFRAG. Yhis has been going on for many weeks, I'm
sure, although I don't know when it actually began.
Please anyone, Help

Dapper Dan
June 7th 04, 01:22 PM
Royse
You have a number of choices, the easiest of which is to run Defrag in
Safe mode. However, you may want to consider running in a "Clean Boot"
environment where you do all your maintenance at the same time. Check
out MVP Gary Terhune's recommendation;

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Alternatively, you may download a free utility, named GEODisk,
designed by George Gedye, also an MVP, that manages this process for
you. If interested, see;

http://mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/Software.htm

Hope this is of help.

Dan

"royse" > wrote in message
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> I'm having the same problem as "joan" has with defrag. I
> have a task set for Sunday night to defrag. It starts
> properly but then it gets into a loop. It will complete
> about 1-2% then start over at zero. It runs all night
> doing the same thing , never getting over 2% complete.
> When I click the mouse to open windows from being asleep I
> see the defrag window showing 0,1 or 2& complete, then the
> defreg window goes away. Defrag does the same thing when I
> open it manually through PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM
> TOOLS, DEFRAG. Yhis has been going on for many weeks, I'm
> sure, although I don't know when it actually began.
> Please anyone, Help

H Leboeuf
June 7th 04, 01:22 PM
RESTART your computer in Safe Mode - How do I boot into "Safe" mode?

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/tsgeninfo.nsf/docid/2001052409420406?OpenDocument&src=sec_doc_nam
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Run defrag from there.


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Henri Leboeuf
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Henri Leboeuf
Web page: http://www.colba.net/~hlebo49/index.htm
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"royse" > wrote in message
...
> I'm having the same problem as "joan" has with defrag. I
> have a task set for Sunday night to defrag. It starts
> properly but then it gets into a loop. It will complete
> about 1-2% then start over at zero. It runs all night
> doing the same thing , never getting over 2% complete.
> When I click the mouse to open windows from being asleep I
> see the defrag window showing 0,1 or 2& complete, then the
> defreg window goes away. Defrag does the same thing when I
> open it manually through PROGRAMS, ACCESSORIES, SYSTEM
> TOOLS, DEFRAG. Yhis has been going on for many weeks, I'm
> sure, although I don't know when it actually began.
> Please anyone, Help