• errant degrag

    Home » Forums » AskWoody support » Windows » Windows Vista, XP and earlier » Questions: Vista, XP back to 3.1 » errant degrag

    Author
    Topic
    WSpischi
    AskWoody Lounger
    January 15, 2001 at 1:16 pm #351891

    I don’t run maintenance utilities as often as I should so I ran scandisk (thorough) then defrag. The defrag ran all night, never completing its duty. I finally turned it off this morning. Any ideas on what I should do to correct this?
    Patricia

    Reply | Quote
    Viewing 0 reply threads
    Author
    Replies
    • WSPrestonK
      AskWoody Lounger
      January 15, 2001 at 2:09 pm #510466

      Make sure the screen saver is turned off. Then be sure other programs running in the background are off. Do this by pressing CNTRL-ALT-DEL together to get the task list and turn off all except SYSTRAY and EXPLORER.EXE

      HTH
      Preston

      Reply | Quote
      • WSPhil Rabichow
        AskWoody Lounger
        January 15, 2001 at 9:21 pm #510505

        And pause task scheduler, in case something is scheduled to start up & interfere. And don’t use any power management (i.e. right click desktop/Properties/Screen Saver/Settings & make sure everything is set to “Always On”. Do the same thing when you make backups or run scandisk.

        Reply | Quote
    Viewing 0 reply threads
    Reply To: Reply #510466 in errant degrag

    You can use BBCodes to format your content.
    Your account can't use all available BBCodes, they will be stripped before saving.

    Your information:




    Cancel
DON'T MISS OUT!
Subscribe to the Free Newsletter
We promise not to spam you. Unsubscribe at any time.
Invalid email address

View the Forum

  • Recent Replies
  • My Replies
  • My Active Topics
  • New Posts in the Last day
  • Private Messages
  • Knowledge Base
  • How to use the Forums
  • All Forums

    • Recent Topics

    My Profile

    April 2025
    S M T W T F S
     12345
    6789101112
    13141516171819
    20212223242526
    27282930  

    Remembering Woody

     

    Want to Advertise in the free newsletter? How about a gift subscription in honor of a birthday? Send an email to sb@askwoody.com to ask how.

    Mastodon profile for DefConPatch
    Mastodon profile for AskWoody

     

    Home • About • FAQ • Posts & Privacy • Forums • My Account
    Register • Free Newsletter • Plus Membership • Gift Certificates • MS-DEFCON Alerts

    Copyright ©2004-2025 by AskWoody Tech LLC. All Rights Reserved.