I have a question about Clean up your hard disk:

Mt defrag. is not responding, after starting the defraf. it stays at 0% can somone suggest a cure?

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Paul D

that is the same thing that i am having trouble with on my computer. i have found out that the defragmenter is not installed on the computer. i am looking for a way to download it back.


On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

go to www.bootdisk.com and download the Windows ME defrag. It is much faster than the Windows98 version and can run on 98. Just unzip it and copy the NEWDEFRAG.exe to the c:\windows directory. Then rename the file DEFRAG.EXE Once you do that, right click on the file choose Send To and then choose Desktop(create shortcut) that way you will have a good shortcut you can copy and paste the shortcut into your Start>Accessories>System Tools folder so that you have a shortcut there. Be sure to check the shortcut there first. Once you put the defrag file where it belongs, the shortcut that was originally there should work on first click.


On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 8:19 am, david taylor wrote:
>that is the same thing that i am having trouble with on my computer. i have found
>out that the defragmenter is not installed on the computer. i am looking for a way
>to download it back.
>
>


>On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
>Four threads down the page!
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

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!


On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

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!
>
>


>On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

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.
>
>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!
>
>


>On Monday, September 24, 2001 at 7:03 pm, Paul D wrote:
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>color=#3366FF>Paul D

you both might try getting a new defragmenter program, with mine, it just halts at 10%, personaly I use norton speed disk but you might be able to find a great freeware utility at www.freewarehome.com


On Tuesday, September 25, 2001 at 8:19 am, david taylor wrote:
>that is the same thing that i am having trouble with on my computer. i have found
>out that the defragmenter is not installed on the computer. i am looking for a way
>to download it back.
>

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