Good grief how is it in any way destructive by simply blocking the loading
of programs? Your diagnostic procedures obviously vary from mine but to say
mine are destructive leaves me with the impression you don't know much about
XP.
"Gerry" wrote in message
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Hardly diagnostic when you say "Delete all items in startup." Far simpler
to run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode to achieve the same objective and
not be so destructive. In any event there are far better ways to disable
items in Start if you need to.


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Unknown wrote:
This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong
with it. Would you care to post your concerns?
"Gerry" wrote in message
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Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a
splinter in your finger.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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Unknown wrote:
Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run
defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which
can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you
may want to use task manager to see what may be happening.
"Madx" wrote in message
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"Gerry" wrote in message
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Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start,
Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk
Management to find out.

If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit
Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer
Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the
system before the disk scan begins.



I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter
that doesn't work. See first post.