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help in defrag
Name: bobhome Date: June 16, 2002 at 04:02:51 Pacific
Comment:
HI I used to defrag after Ctrl-Alt-Del closing all but systray & explorer,it still took about one hour.Since downloading END IT ALL I have just defragged after ten days.It took exactly 10 mins.you can download this tool here http://www.yankeewebworks.com/wck/freeware.html When you get to site scroll down page and download enditall.zip745kb,When using tool do not use kill all,you must use Close All hope this helps people who have trouble defragging
Name: Rajan Urs Date: June 16, 2002 at 04:28:06 Pacific
Reply:
Defrag should be done preferably in Safe Mode.
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Response Number 2
Name: bobhome Date: June 16, 2002 at 05:06:33 Pacific
Reply:
Surely booting in safe mode just runs the pc without any unneeded background programs running.this tool only runs the progs.that are needed to run,so isnt that the same??? BOB
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Response Number 3
Name: Michael Date: June 16, 2002 at 06:52:28 Pacific
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CTRL, ALT & Delete does not to show all the running programs. See this post which appears to show exactly what programs are running... http://www.computing.net/security/wwwboard/forum/942.html
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