Summary: I may be the last to have discovered this but just in case: After running Scandisk or Defrag. (in Windows) turn the Screensaver back on before re-boot...
Summary: Have you tried running them in safe mode? What kind of programs do you have running in the background when you attempt to run scandisk and defrag in n...
Summary: FOR YOUR INFO. I run the maintenance wizard in full running mode no problem. How. By regularly cleaning out the registry and junk files with a combina...
Summary: The following site has a tweaking program I saw on "Call for Help" a while back: http://www.xteq.com/products/xset/index.html This allows you to selec...
Summary: (first and foremost i am not sure that i have my operating system listed properly or my processor type and ram if this will make a difference in your ...
Summary: I can't get ScanDisk nor Defrag. to work. After starting ScanDisk I get a message: ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because another program is writing ...
Summary: I had this problem before but I am running Windows ME. Don't know if this applies, but turn off ANY programs that are running. Also, if your system ...
Summary: Hi guys, Whenever I run scandisk or defrag, they start out fine but then seem to stop. The CPU indicator doesn't show anything going on, it just seems...
Summary: Midnight, Try booting to safe mode and you will usually be able to run Scandisk and Defrag when it will not in normal windows. Get to safe m...
Summary: The very best thing to do is make a boot disk and run scandisk from MS Dos. I had the same problem, where the cimputer would scandisk 10 times and nev...
Summary: Before you do a scandisk or defrag, do ctrl-alt-del and end all running tasks except explorer and systray. What is happening is that everytime you try...
Summary: My computer recently ran low on disk space so I dumped about 2 gig's of files. I like to run scandisk and defrag regularly but now it seems to be stuc...
Summary: Is it possible that the hard drive is too full?Remove some files to about 10% of nominal capacity and run scandisk and defrag again.If this is not the...
Summary: Have you tried scandisk and defrag in safe mode? Defrag can actually move more files around in safe mode than it can in normal mode. Plus, when you bo...
Summary: I have found that it is better to run scandisk and defrag from the safe prompt. It is the easiest and quickest way, that I know, to eliminate all the...
Summary: but wait, there's MORE........... quote "First, run ScanDisk in Standard mode, to make sure the drives file system is OK. (Start menu - Programs - Acc...
Summary: Hya All These moves solve a large number of ME problems and conflicts. 1. First, set a System Restore point so that you can go all the way back if yo...
Summary: Thanks! You are correct - it was scandisk that I was running and defrag will not run unless I let scandisk fix the "supposed" error. Anyway, I will tr...
Summary: Hello Everyone, This is the longest time (about 3 months) I have gone without any trouble with Wme os. This time the scandisk and defrag routines ar...
Summary: Fell for that old e-mail trick. What program file did it tell you to delete? Try booting into Safe Mode (Ctrl before ME splash screen, select boot in...
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