Ongoing Problem With Defragmenting

Use MS's Defragger in Safe mode. Boot and press F8 to
put your PC in Safe mode. It will Defrag a 40meg
harddrive in about 10 minutes.



-----Original Message-----
I recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP. My computer
speed is 2.1 ghz. The problem I
have been having is that when I used the defragmenting
tool in XP, it would take an hour to defragment
everytime. I defragment once a week and also run disk
cleanup before I do it. I downloaded DiskKeeper software
which is a defragmenting tool, and it took 2 hours the
first time I ran it and everytime now, it still takes
about an hour. I don't think I have anything running in
the background. I disabled Norton Antivirus and
screensaver and anything else that I noticed was
running. Can anyone help me?

Janine

.

40 MEG in 10 minutes?? That's not fast. Unless you mean GIG. Why does XP
have to come up in safe mode in order for the defrag not to be so slow?


"Byte" wrote in message
...
Use MS's Defragger in Safe mode. Boot and press F8 to
put your PC in Safe mode. It will Defrag a 40meg
harddrive in about 10 minutes.



-----Original Message-----
I recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP. My computer
speed is 2.1 ghz. The problem I
have been having is that when I used the defragmenting
tool in XP, it would take an hour to defragment
everytime. I defragment once a week and also run disk
cleanup before I do it. I downloaded DiskKeeper software
which is a defragmenting tool, and it took 2 hours the
first time I ran it and everytime now, it still takes
about an hour. I don't think I have anything running in
the background. I disabled Norton Antivirus and
screensaver and anything else that I noticed was
running. Can anyone help me?

Janine

.

Unless you defrag in safe mode- other background tasks often reset and
restart defrag- thus making it a very long process.



"Cracker Jacks" wrote in message
...
40 MEG in 10 minutes?? That's not fast. Unless you mean GIG. Why does XP
have to come up in safe mode in order for the defrag not to be so slow?


"Byte" wrote in message
...
Use MS's Defragger in Safe mode. Boot and press F8 to
put your PC in Safe mode. It will Defrag a 40meg
harddrive in about 10 minutes.



-----Original Message-----
I recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP. My computer
speed is 2.1 ghz. The problem I
have been having is that when I used the defragmenting
tool in XP, it would take an hour to defragment
everytime. I defragment once a week and also run disk
cleanup before I do it. I downloaded DiskKeeper software
which is a defragmenting tool, and it took 2 hours the
first time I ran it and everytime now, it still takes
about an hour. I don't think I have anything running in
the background. I disabled Norton Antivirus and
screensaver and anything else that I noticed was
running. Can anyone help me?

Janine

.