i was having a problem with my pc when i click on a file and it would take a long time to open a default program such as windows explorer, windows picture and fax viewer, and windows media player. anytime i try to open any program it takes forever, it never used to be like this. i eventually figured that maybe the problem is with my HD so i've tried to drgrag it and it seems to have no effect. i have defraged it over ten times and i still have lots of fragmented files. my HD is about 6 years old and they usually go bad after 5 so maybe its just its time. is it even possible that this is why my pc is being slow? even if its unrelated, why cant i defrag my HD?

i forgot to mention one thing... i know that sometimes HDs cant defrag because files are constantly being written to them, but thats not the case. i always close any programs that might write files to he HD before i defrag.

How much free disc space do you have? If it is under 15% Defrag will not work. If it is between 15% - 25% defrag will be slow. i_XpUser

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... folks seem to cling to defrag as if it was some sort of lifesaver. While beneficial, it's not exactly any sort of 'repair', and your issues aren't likely to be resolved by making all of your files 100% contiguous - look elsewhere I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter.

If you have not done this yet try defragging in Safe Mode

Do you run anti-virus and anti-spyware programs? If not, you have likely accumulated a huge number of unwanted programs running in the background, sucking up CPU cycles and slowing you down. Make sure you have run full scans of these important utilities within the last week, at most.