XP, 640 megs memory, 40 gig HD. For months, my machine said not to defrag (I check weekly). The last 3/4 times it has said I should defrag and I did. I smell a rat. Any thoughts as to why it now says defrag each time (just checked, says so now even though I did just hours ago)? If it's just a glitch, I can live with that. My concern is that I might be doing something wrong. If it's just a corrupt 'flag' in the registry, no biggie. My procedure is to hilite 'C' and analyize then when it says I should defrag, I hit defrag. This last time, I did it a little different, cancelled first, hilited 'C' and then hit defrag. Correct? Weekly defrag seems unusual to me, I'd expect more like once in several mos, if that with XP. Ed in Texas.

How full is your HD? It could be possible that you have reached a critical size and XP needs to defrag to maintain efficient running.

My pc is doing this too. I used to defrag about evry three or four months on my old one but if I click analyse on my new one (8 months old) it says to defrag every time?

You should check and see if in fact your defragger is coming on and doing the job it is supposed to do. Sometimes for whatever reason they get lazy and the process does not start.

I would suggest getting a program such as executive software Diskeeper. I use this at home and the government has it installed on my work machine. Diskeeper has a "set it and forget it" function which will defrag automatically as the disk needs it. best of luck Frank :

i'd be highly alerted if the government installed ANYTHING 'on my work machine' :-) Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.' icq 10183575