Hi, I recently got a Sony Vaio laptop (model FX240). It's a PIII 800, 256MB RAM. I'm running Windows Me (I hate it so much). Anyways, every time I run defrag, it freezes between 5 and 10% when reading drive information. I have nothing else running in the background except Explorer (when I press ctrl+alt+del). Any ideas what the hell is going on? Thanks.

It's not freezing... if you watch the hard-drive light you'll notice it flashing. You probably have (in settings) the option checked to sort your most used programmes to the front of your disk. Uncheck it and your defrag will go a lot faster. By the way you are using one of the best Windows platforme yet. If you don't like it you should go back to 98SE and I'll bet you still have the defrag problems.

Superman, try to defrag in the safe mode... if that does not work treat it as any other lemon, call the computer manufacturer tech support and tell them that you are recording the phone call and record it. Unseen... windows ME and best platform??? - it is the lemon of the MILLENIUM ! the windows ME defrag reads the drive information between 5% and 10% of completion, at that point does not matter where your program files are located because it does not move anything.... Regards Miro

From posting 11781: Name: Renaissance Man Date: July 26, 2001 at 15:15:03 Pacific Subject: cant run scandisk on Win me Defrag sucks, if for no other reason than it takes so long. However, most compaints I've seen have been about defrag restarting over and over, because the swap file is "dynamic." If you set your swap file to a FIXED size (min and max the same), equal to somewhere between one and two times the size of your memory, you should never have a problem. I have 256K ram and a 256K swap file, and I've never had a problem. But I use Norton's speed disk. Ideally, the (fixed) swap file should be at the beginning of the hard drive. You can download Norton's (or MacAfee's) utilities for a free demo, and after using their defragmenter once, you can uninstall it. Their defraggers put the swap file at the beginning of the disc. Then you can go back to using MS Defrag if you like.

i agree with unseen. ME is the most stable windows platform yet, but like all the others it is'nt perfect. i've never had an issue with defrag, it works perfectly all the time. there's a little program out there called power defrag which uses the ME one but really makes it boogie.

I like windowsME. works perfectly for me, tips, tricks, updates make it "boogie" as guru put it:). Cant really compare it to windows 95 or 3.1 which i loved. Not much different than windows98SE but hey.its the new model:)

Run Scandisk on it to make sure there are no .chk files laying around. Sometimes defrag doesnt like those. So run scandisk and delete them or delete them manualy then try to run defrag again. Also consider getting a program called Vopt Defrag.....its a third party defragger that runs circles around anyother defragging program out there. You can defrag Windows 2000 partitions from within Windows ME....so you can use it on both OS's.