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Hi i'm experiencing a problem with my defrag.It's only happened this last week.I run scandisk and then defrag but defrag stops at %10.I looked at details and it said there was a sector that couldn't be done.So i looked in alt crtl del to see if anything was running and ctvplog was there.I don't know what this is but i ended task and defrag ran ok.It the ME edition btw.But today it won't work at all even when i end task ctvplog and restart it just keeps popping up.Oh and also when i run scandisk and defrag i turn everything off in start up except explorer.It's always worked before.Any ideas?
TIA
What about a virus check. You may need to run the defrag from safe mode, but I would be concerned on the file first. I could not locate via google is it spelled correctly?
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screensaver, power management, anti virus.
Are they all turned off?
Try booting to safe mode then defrag.
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Try going into Defrag settings and select to run defrag without the optimization.
After it completes, run it again with optimization. It optimizes much faster on a defragged drive.HTH
Bryan
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hi guys thanks for the swift replies.the file is called cvtaplog sorry about that.I don't know about power management but my screensaver comes on.It has never caused a problem before.I'm sure i don't have a virus as it runs every day automatically.I looked at the defrag setting but the only choices are rearrange programs so they run faster which is checked and fix errors which is checked.
Thanks again
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At the 10% mark, defrag is "rearranging your programs" (optimizing startup). It does this by using the info in the \applog directory, that is maintained by Taskmon.
Defrags interface to this info is via CVTAPLOG.If it is hanging for a long time, you could have corrupted records in \applog.
Regardless, browse to \Windows\Applog (hidden folder), and delete all files found there.
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CVTAPLOG is a virus. A rather nasty one at that:) Go HERE to read about it and how to remove it.
CP
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I don't understand this.WhitPhil says it's needed for defrag and CP say's it's a virus.I looked at the virus page and it doesn't mention CVTAPLOG.I looked for applog and i haveind and dtc files.Should i just delete these because i can't open them to see what's in them?
Thanks
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Taskmon, if it is in your startup, monitors all of your programs as they start. It watches the disk clusters that they load from, and where the files reside.
This information is logged and updated in the files under \Applog.
Defrag when it runs, uses this information to put the clusters in the same sequence as the program loads.
Eg:
If a program is physically on disk in 5 clusters. When it is executed it goes to clusters 1,2 then 5,4 and then 3 to complete the load.
On a normal defrag, it would put the clusters together as 1,2,3,4,5
With Taskmon and optimization selected, the clusters will be put together as 1,2,5,4,3.
Thus when the program loads next, the information will be in the right sequence.
Now, if another defrag program is run that does not "optimize", it will view these clusters as fragmented (AND they are), and it will defrag them back to 1,2,3,4,5.By deleting the records and running with optimize set,defrag will find no supporting records in \applog and place the programs wherever it wants. If you had previously used the optimize, this run will now "unoptimize" the files, because it will defrag them, as it would normally. Ie: back to 1,2,3,4,5.
BTW I have no idea why CP thinks this file would be infected with Magistr
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goosh, Do what Whitphil suggests. I did not see anything with CVTAPLOG that suggest a hint of virus, and I read the whole Symantec sheet that CP attached.
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My bad, posted the wrong link. Did a google search for CVTAPLOG and came up with this interesting tid bit:
If Im wrong, then Im wrong, ignore me:)
CP
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I "think" it is misguided advice. This is also how the SULFNBK.exe hoax started.
Magistr, as it emails itself onwards, picks up and infects a Windows file, and attaches that to the outbound email.
Thus, it the site above (and the originator of the SULFNBK "hoax"), received CVTAPLOG/Sulfnbk and it was infected with the Magistr virus, they "could" mistakenly believe that those files ALWAYS indicate a virus being present.In the case of this thread, it is easy to determine if the program running is a virus or the real file.
Run your antivirus program with updated definitions. If the file is in fact infected, use SFC and replace it from your CABs or Windows CD.
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