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re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:08 pm Posted by Tanner Stokes (295 messages posted) You could possibly have a program running in the background causing this. Most of the time defrag runs best (without interruption) when in Safe Mode. Try running it in there. (F8 before Windows boots up) On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 8:56 pm, beagle wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to defrag my system...but the application appears to not respond? why >is it doing this? can anyone help me? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:20 pm Posted by beagle (4 messages posted) hello, wat type of programs could be causing this? On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:08 pm, Tanner Stokes wrote: >You could possibly have a program running in the background causing this. > >Most of the time defrag runs best (without interruption) when in Safe Mode. > >Try running it in there. (F8 before Windows boots up) > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm Posted by Tanner Stokes (295 messages posted) As far as it not starting at all, it would be hard to tell. But often defrag is put in a loop because a program in the background is trying to access or change files on the drive. Defrag automatically restarts when it detects any activity on the drive. These programs could be really anything, but are most commonly anti-virus, file sharing, and anything else that would cause activity in the background. If it works in safe mode, then this is most likely your problem. If it doesn't work in safe mode, you are probably dealing with something different. On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:20 pm, beagle wrote: >hello, > >wat type of programs could be causing this? > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:48 pm Posted by beagle (4 messages posted) Hello, i tried booting up in safe mode, but it appears even that doesn't work? i pressed f8 just before the XP page comes up the screen remain black? any suggestions? On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm, Tanner Stokes wrote: >As far as it not starting at all, it would be hard to tell. But often defrag is put >in a loop because a program in the background is trying to access or change files >on the drive. Defrag automatically restarts when it detects any activity on the drive. > >These programs could be really anything, but are most commonly anti-virus, file sharing, >and anything else that would cause activity in the background. > >If it works in safe mode, then this is most likely your problem. > >If it doesn't work in safe mode, you are probably dealing with something different. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 10:00 pm Posted by beagle (4 messages posted) oh forgot to add...defrag page does show up...but i can't do anything once it's opened...wen i look task manger it's alternating between responding and not responding? so i don't know wat is going on... On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm, Tanner Stokes wrote: >As far as it not starting at all, it would be hard to tell. But often defrag is put >in a loop because a program in the background is trying to access or change files >on the drive. Defrag automatically restarts when it detects any activity on the drive. > >These programs could be really anything, but are most commonly anti-virus, file sharing, >and anything else that would cause activity in the background. > >If it works in safe mode, then this is most likely your problem. > >If it doesn't work in safe mode, you are probably dealing with something different. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 2:41 am Posted by Franklin (540 messages posted) Click Start, Run, and type in:(copy-paste) Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks This should create a new layout.ini file in the prefetch folder which I think the defragger needs to work properly. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 9:57 am Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) "This should create a new layout.ini file in the prefetch folder which I think the defragger needs to work properly." Why would anything in the prefetch folder be needed by defrag? Those are junk files. I have Prefetch disabled, and I've no problem running it. Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 5:09 pm Posted by Franklin (540 messages posted) The layout.ini file can also be deleted without a problem. *.ini files are ‘information files’ that are used by Windows to make configurations. Layout.ini contains prefetch information for XP's disk defragmentation system (defrag). Information in this file is used by the defragmenter to move programs and files on your workstation's hard drive to a more favorable location, speeding up direct read times. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/pages/article_p.asp?id=394 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 6:57 pm Posted by Ms. Eagle (33640 messages posted) My point was, what does that have to do with running defrag successfully? Nothing, is the answer. Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 8:05 pm Posted by Franklin (540 messages posted) Carol,the layout.ini file and defragger do work together and I know that defrag will work without a ini file..A corrupted ini may cause probs so I gave advice that may help. Please direct your comments to the person that needs help and stop denigrating those that at least try to help. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: defrag not responding Monday, November 28, 2005 at 11:02 am Posted by RDButler (1 messages posted) I am having the same problem. I even tried running it using a command prompt. I get an error message that states "Windows cannot connect to Defrag Engine" Have you tried to run defrag from the command prompt? If I run into a solution, I will post it here. Good Luck. On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 8:56 pm, beagle wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to defrag my system...but the application appears to not respond? why >is it doing this? can anyone help me? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum