hello, i can't get my defrag to run. It stays on 0%. I ran the scandisk before hand so that's not the problem. please help

This forum link should do it for ya! http://computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/68224.html

Try bringing your system up in the "Safe Mode" then run defrag. Defrag will take a long time to run - don't get impatient. The larger the hard drive the more time it will take. Don't know if you need it, but to save time. To get into safe mode, depending on System and OS, either hold down the control key as teh system starts. Hold it down until you get the Operating Menu - Then select option 3 - Safe Mode. If the control key doesn't work then, immediately after the system recognizes the Hard Drive(s), start tapping on the F8 key until you get the menu, then select option 3 - Safe Mode as above. Once you get the OS running in safe mode - turn off your screen saver (if you are using one) then start the Defrag.

i allways found it to be a pain to have to end tasks in the device manager or going to safe mode . so i set out to find another defrag utilty and i did its called voptme its fast and it might slow down but it dont stop and start over or hang up, you can find it with a simple search another thing its not freeware but you can download the evauluation version to see if you really like it.

First make sure that you have emptied all TEMP folders (C:\TEMP C:\TMP and C:\Windows\TEMP) S Empty the Recycle Bin...no need to Scandisk and Defrag this, especially if it has lots of files in it still that you have removed and forgotten about. If you have MSOffice or any of its programs installed, you should (my opinion) also stop FindFast from running completely. It 'hits' your harddrive every couple of minutes searching all drives and partitions uselessly so that it can be 'ready' just in case you decide to open an Office program. This interferes badly with your system speed and also with Scandisk and Defrag. I don't know anybody who keeps this program around for long once they realize how useless it is. Go to Start\Programs\Startup and delete the icons (black) that are there for FindFast. Now go to Control Panel\FindFast and open it up and click Edit, click Delete Indexing for each drive and partition listed in the white box below it. That will stop the entire program from running without it being uninstalled, which isn't all that easy to do anyhow. Now close all running programs using CTRL-ALT and the DEL key (press the DEL key only once to get the menu) except Explorer and Systray. And also choose NONE for a screensaver until Scandisk and Defrag have been run successfully. Now run the program...If you have had many File000.chk files building up in the C: root it will remove them giving you much harddrive space that was being used up with those files. Once Scandisk has been run and is error free, open Defrag and click Settings. Take the check mark out of "re-arrange my files" and make sure there is a check mark in "every time I run this program". This will stop Defrag from putting all of the MS programs at the front of the defragged harddrive...which takes alot of time to run if you have many MS programs installed on your system. The program actually gets faster as it does this because it is remembering where the files were when it last ran, but it takes at least 20 times of running Defrag before you would notice any difference in the speed, so it could conceivably take all day and night to defrag a very large harddrive that isn't partitioned, so most people turn off this 'feature'. Now run Defrag.

Good advice. Some clarification. Scandisk does not get rid of CHK files, it creates them if you have the option set. If you are not going to use the optimize programs features (which is not just for MS programs), then you should ensure that Taskmon is disabled, and you should delete all the files in the \applog directory.