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Disk Defragmentor Error
Name: Abuttayeb Date: September 26, 2002 at 23:38:55 Pacific OS: XP Home CPU/Ram: PIII 850/256
Comment:
Hi...
I installed Diskeeper 7 to try it and then I deleted it, but when I try to access the Disk Defragmentor that was built in Windows, I get "Snap in failed to initialize. Name: Disk Defragmentor. CLSID {...weired number....} and when I press OK, it opens the application with this message in it: Snap in Creation Failed ..........(similar message to the above)
I ran the recovery console under chkdsk /r, but I did not fix it...
Name: Bill Date: September 27, 2002 at 01:49:40 Pacific
Reply:
Try running the following command:
SFC /SCANNOW
This is the system file checker and it should find and replace any missing or invalid files.
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Response Number 2
Name: JROB Date: September 27, 2002 at 04:39:05 Pacific
Reply:
Just curious, but why did you uninstall Disk Keeper 7? It is highly more capable of doing what you need since its the company that made the windows defrag program. I have it and it has done what windows defrag could not, and in 1/4 the time.
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Response Number 3
Name: Abuttayeb Date: September 27, 2002 at 20:53:36 Pacific
Reply:
Hey...
Bill... thanks for the command and I am trying it right now...
Jrob... I just hate to have more than one program that functions almost the same espicially on fragmentation :-)
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