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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk '
Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 5:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by GSM
(4 messages posted)
Norton Utilities will do the job, but not as well as the program that came with your
version of Windows 98. Do you have a virus scan, firewall, ad-stopper, or any other
"3rd Party" program running in the background? You might and not even be aware of
it.
The more stuff you have on your hard drive the harder it is for Windows to do maintenance.
Restarting your computer in Safe Mode will usually take care of that in a jiffy.
Restart your computer and hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard, or hold down F8...
both will work. Windows will then give you several Restart choices - make sure you
select Safe Mode and hit the Enter key. Your computer will then restart with just
the bare bones of Windows running. The only thing you should see on your taskbar
is the system clock. If you have an external modem, disconnect it. Now you can go
to Start, Programs, Accessories, System Tools, and click on Disk Defragmenter. This
will work for you.
On Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 5:17 am, Douglas wrote:
>Try nortons utilities 2002 ! i bought it for the very same problems you are having
>now and what was taking 3 days took 3 minutes to defrag!
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>On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
>Four threads down the page!
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>On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 6:28 pm, Hunter wrote:
>I have a question about Clean
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>up your hard disk:
>Mt defrag. is not responding, after starting the defraf. it stays at 0% can somone
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>suggest a cure?
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