Hi Paul, A good defrager is O&O Defrag V4 http://www.oosoft.de/english/products/oodefragv4/index.html With O&O Defrag V4 you achieve maximum performance under Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT - with minimum effort! It includes the most professional and user-friendly features ever found in defragmentation software. And according to computer and media experts, O&O Defrag is definitely one of the best tools for Windows! ~~~~~ They offer a free trial, as well as a free lite version. http://www.oosoft.de/english/products/ood2000free/ Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see ~ http://www.mwn.ca <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> See my Anti-Virus pages ~ http://virusinfo.hackfix.org A Technical Support Alliance Charter Member *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 25/01/2003 at 5:08 PM Paul M. King wrote: oftRon: Thanks for your thoughtful tips on my problem. You were right. Norton caused the mess, not a virus. I have deleted Norton SystemWorks 2002, but still have some manual cleanup to get to the seat of the wnk*.tmp files which continue to breed. I just checked system.ini, but suspect there are entries in my registry to be deleted, too. SNIP Now if I can just find a good shareware defragger ............ Paul King - Users can unsubscribe from this list by sending email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://webpages.charter.net/chizotz/