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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk '
Thursday, February 21, 2002 at 6:05 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Future Apple Owner
(1 messages posted)
Another solution: Before defragging, hit ctrl+alt+delete to open up task manager.
End all tasks (one by one) until the only tasks running are "explorer" and "systray".
Doing this shuts down all apps running in the background, leaving only essential
Win98 processes active. Also be sure to disable your screensaver. Should do the
trick.
Also, avoid using the disk defragmenter bundled with Norton Utilities or SystemWorks.
Norton takes less time to defrag, but that's only because it doesn't do a very good
job of defragging. After using Norton defragger for a while & switching back to
the Win98 defragger, I could see that Norton didn't do what it was supposed to do
- data was spread out all over the disk! It took the Windows defragger forever to
fix, but when it was done, performance had improved fairly significantly compared
with the Norton defragger.
On Thursday, January 17, 2002 at 5:44 pm, G. McCrady wrote:
>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.
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>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.
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>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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