[TechAssist] Re: Defrag question

  • From: "Jeff Dougherty" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 22:43:07 -0500

Ron,
Press ctrl-alt-del at the same time.
Also, go to start-run, type msconfig.
Click on the startup tab. You can uncheck everything in there and restart,
then try defrag.
also, disable your screen saver.

Jeff
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Miller" <rlmbkm@xxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:45 PM
Subject: [TechAssist] Defrag question


>
> My shop computer is about a year old,running win ME ,no major problems to
> date.Note:Closed All Programs.
>  Tried to run defrag start it at closing next morning have error message:
> could not complete defrag due to another program running,run scandisk and
> try again.When I run scandisk it stops and displays message about it could
> run faster if I close all programs,continue or close,I chose continue.When
> scandisk finally read complete drive the report said no errors found.
>  What is the command to see what programs are running in the background?I
do
> have Norton AV in my start up file is that the cause?
> Ron Miller
> D.T.V. Texas
>
>
>
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