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Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
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Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:56 am
Posted by Frank Villa
(2 messages posted)
I need someone to explain how defrag.
Im using Windows ME And as always , right about when it gets to 50% it starts al
over again. it keeps doing this over and over and over. About a year ago someone
here showed me how to defrag by shutting down certain items on my pc, If memory sercves
me right, you told me to shut down eveything but the task bar and system tray and
i cant remember what the third one was. It worked too! the problem is i cant remember
what NOT to shut down before going to defrag, please help, thanks again,
Frank Villa
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 11:19 am
Posted by Rich Trotto
(170 messages posted)
Just look back through this discussion group, just about everyday someone posts this
same problem. Generally, you want run defrag while the computer is in the "safe"
mode. Here's the MS Knowledge Base article on the problem.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q186978
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:56 am, Frank Villa wrote:
>I need someone to explain how defrag.
>Im using Windows ME And as always , right about when it gets to 50% it starts al
>over again. it keeps doing this over and over and over. About a year ago someone
>here showed me how to defrag by shutting down certain items on my pc, If memory
sercves
>me right, you told me to shut down eveything but the task bar and system tray and
>i cant remember what the third one was. It worked too! the problem is i cant remember
>what NOT to shut down before going to defrag, please help, thanks again,
>Frank Villa
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 11:26 am
Posted by Gandalf
(33 messages posted)
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:56 am, Frank Villa wrote:
>I need someone to explain how defrag.
>Im using Windows ME And as always , right about when it gets to 50% it starts al
>over again. it keeps doing this over and over and over. About a year ago someone
>here showed me how to defrag by shutting down certain items on my pc, If memory
sercves
>me right, you told me to shut down eveything but the task bar and system tray and
>i cant remember what the third one was. It worked too! the problem is i cant remember
>what NOT to shut down before going to defrag, please help, thanks again,
>Frank Villa
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 2:26 pm
Posted by Travis
(54 messages posted)
Really, you should just start your computer up in safe mode. Do this by shutting
down your computer and right when you see the first image onscreen (before your "starting
windows" screen) start tapping the F8 key. If you want to do it the other way, the
other thing you wouldn't shut down would be explorer.
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 8:54 pm
Posted by John S. Boesen
(308 messages posted)
Search all My POSTS in this Forum for "Scandisk" as well as Defrag
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:56 am, Frank Villa wrote:
>I need someone to explain how defrag.
>Im using Windows ME And as always , right about when it gets to 50% it starts al
>over again. it keeps doing this over and over and over. About a year ago someone
>here showed me how to defrag by shutting down certain items on my pc, If memory
sercves
>me right, you told me to shut down eveything but the task bar and system tray and
>i cant remember what the third one was. It worked too! the problem is i cant remember
>what NOT to shut down before going to defrag, please help, thanks again,
>Frank Villa
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Tuesday, September 24, 2002 at 11:58 pm
Posted by Jeff
(1 messages posted)
Actually, all you need to do is get a little program called power defrag. I run ME
and Power Defrag works great for me.
On Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at 8:54 pm, John Boesen wrote:
>Search all My POSTS in this Forum for "Scandisk" as well as Defrag
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re: Question about 'Clean up your hard disk'
Saturday, November 30, 2002 at 4:48 pm
Posted by Dave
(1 messages posted)
Try running it in safe mode. I'm sure this will solve your problem.
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:56 am, Frank Villa wrote:
>I need someone to explain how defrag.
>Im using Windows ME And as always , right about when it gets to 50% it starts al
>over again. it keeps doing this over and over and over. About a year ago someone
>here showed me how to defrag by shutting down certain items on my pc, If memory
sercves
>me right, you told me to shut down eveything but the task bar and system tray and
>i cant remember what the third one was. It worked too! the problem is i cant remember
>what NOT to shut down before going to defrag, please help, thanks again,
>Frank Villa
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