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I juts fixed my friends computer and being that hes not computer literate i was nice and tried to Defrag his h/d. Problem was it was taking hours. I started it and came back 2 hours lter and it was at 38%...and it seemed to be getting slower as time went on. What does this mean? To much fragmentation? Hard Drive is weak ? Too much heat? Someone help...
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processor speed and cpu load come into play heavilly in a defrag because the system is trying to plot the best method of optimization while doning so try using norton or ontrack or mcaffee they have defraggers with multiple options to help speed up the process or even more fully optimize and yes defrag can take a long time especialy if you havnt run scan disk lots file fragments or clusters only slow down the process alot allways run scan disk first and if you have time do a surface scan first to becaus bad sectors on your hardrive not only will screw up normall operations but severly slow down a defrag
use your system macros to have the system automaticaly perform theese task periodicaly then shutdown on there own this way your friends system optimizes itself and shuts down when they are asleep and not using the system
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One thing that will help is to turn off the 'Rearrange program files' option. IMHO it's useless anyway.
Also, you could get the faster Win ME defrag
http://www.potentproducts.com/newsletter/022.html
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If the Harddrive is nearly full, the system cant swap much, that increases the time. 6 GB is a lot of stuff, so expect a few hours.
Maybe the machine is low on ram (32 MB), that also increases time.Rainaari
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And don't forget close all programs running in the background except systray and explorer. Do a ctrl-alt-del to close the programs.
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Bobby,
First make sure that you have emptied all TEMP folders (C:\TEMP C:\TMP and C:\Windows\TEMP)Second, open Scandisk and click Advanced and put check marks in the following:
No
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.
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No membership is required to download the "very fast" Win Me defrag utility here:
www.surecool.comMy method for defragging is to run a thorough scandisk first, then goto the run box & type msconfig.
Then uncheck the load startup group box & do a quick reboot(hold down the shift key then select restart), then run defrag.
When finished recheck the startup group in msconfig & quick reboot again.
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