I have been having the slow downs hard core. Defrag has been going for 24+ hours and its only at 9%. Folders take 5 seconds to load and the icon pictures within the folders take about 10 seconds to appear. Games run fine and programs do to once they load, but its almost like the computer has a 5 second hicup every 10 seconds and freezes. I have ran registry fixer, spy bot, avg, I have ran tests on all my components with a program called cpu tester (r something like that). I was grabbing wi-fi spots within my neiborhood to get internet with a wireless usb adapter. Funny thing is this is when all the problems starting happening or at least getting worse after a couple weeks of installing the Belkin software for the usb adapter. For the past week I can't get a signal I usually could always get. I guess my question is should I just wipe the drives and start fresh? or should I try something else?
The Display adapter is a 64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 with TV Out, and I am using Internet Explorer 7. Am I doing anything that is incorrect and should not do, or do differently in the following?I am using Diskeeper 2008 Home, and Defragment my Hard Drive every two hours. I clean my Registry with Advanced Registry Optimizer 2008 about every five days. I perform a Full Registry Backup right before I execute a Diskeeper Boot-time Defragmentation [which I perform about every three days. I delete all my Partial and Full Registry Backups when I have three or more Full Registry Backups. I then Perform a Full Registry Backup [so I never have more than three Full Registry Backups at any time, to save Disk Space.] I know that the Registry is Vital for the entire computer,
All of a sudden I have major pop-ups about this program Winfixer. It starts to download this program and when I close the window it just restarts. I don't know what this program is or what has been installed on my computer. Should I just let it install? It is coming more and more often.
Win xp pro, pen 4, norton antivirus, Win firewall. After I downloaded and installed Windows Live Messenger the defrag process wouldn't defrag all the files. I reformatted my computer without WLM and defragging was not a problem, worked like a charm. So, I downloaded and installed WLM again, and lo and behold the same problem occurred, the defrag program would not defrag all the files. I uninstalled WLM and defrag process still wouldn't defrag all the files. How do I solve this problem of not being able to defrag all of my files without reformatting my computer.
After reinstall Windows XP from Dell CD, it's appear small popup window with caution "You have 30 days for register". As is original I never register software. Yesterday he call me, he can not use Windows. Yes, it's passed 30 days! He describe me, its appear a log screen, but who know for waht is this. How can I fix it for him? Is there any way without reinstalling again?
when i open my internet , a pop out comes to screen saying your free 3 days trial is over and i need to make payment even if i dont want to. it doesnt go off.
1. Within hours or days of installing XP I get blue screen of death even though I formatted C drive. I try to repair it with boot CD but it NEVER finds a previous version of windows to repair. So I try stuff in recovery console such as replacing my ntfs file (was told to do this by someone) but that doesn't help. Then I attempted to chkdsk but 30 minutes later it's only at 20%. May as well just reinstall!
2. My laptop often just cuts the power. I think this is due to overheating but to be honest when it cuts sometimes it's hot and sometimes it is not. I have ordered a cooling mat and in the meantime I have a big office fan blasting it on full power, seems to help. I'm also considering buying compressed air can.................
i've scanned my computer with every single anti-virus and spyware program i could find yet nothing will fix the problem Sometimes when i reboot it will start loading normally but when it gets to the windows XP logo the loading bar is going like it's supposed to...then after a few seconds it completely stops...then shortly after a blue screen flashes and my computer restarts....and when this starts happening the only way to fix it is to do a system restore to the date i first installed windows xp to it....even if the problem started happening a week after i restore...it won't work if i restore it to a couple days before...ONLY the day i first installed windows.....i have to keep going into safe mode and restore....then it will begin working again....but no matter what it always ends up doing it again...and i'm getting sick of constantly losing programs i install then having to reinstall every single one of them.
After my neighbour updated his computer with all the latest updates from Microsoft every time he switches his computer on a set of keys appear in the desktop taskbar prompting him to register windows. As he had no product key sticker anywhere on the computer case I downloaded keyfinder from Download.com it found the product key in seconds. but I tried to register windows but it keeps telling me on the windows registration page that this copy is already registered.He only has six days left to register, what happens if after the six days past he still cannot get a product key.
Lost 2 days of data because in the middle of the day my windows date reverts back to Jan 2002. I have changed the date back to the actual date twice already
I want to backup my Autocomplete User Names and Passwords, Web Addresses, and Forms entries in the registry. What are the registry addresses for these items?
My general understanding is that it isnt necessary to defrag very often. An occasional defrag should do the trick. Unless, maybe, youve done a lot of stuff recently. I do have several questions though that I hope someone can clear up for me and anyone else that might be interested.
1. Does a pre windows defrag program help any at all? If so, how often should it be run?
2. Is this different than the pre installed Microsoft chkdsk program? Isnt it also a pre windows defrag program?
3. Is one or the other better? Or are they basically the same?
4. What happens if, on occasion, you use a pre windows defrag program and the chkdsk program? Is there a conflict?
5. Does one try to write a certain way and the other rewrites a different way and therefore your wasting your time and effort?
6. Does a pre windows defrag program make a windows defrag program unnecessary?
7. Since it has been stated that the windows defrag program works fine, but isnt the greatest, what if you use a different combination, like, JkDefrag and a pre windows program? I mention JkDefrag because, if you wanted, it can be set to defrag daily or weekly. Set and forget.
8. Assuming one is doing a lot of stuff, when does a registry defrag program enter the picture? Or is one ever needed? Is this just a marketing thing?
9. And, of course, there are also registry cleaners. Again, assuming your doing lots of stuff.
10. And also theres also programs like CCleaner program, which cleans out cookies, temp files, etc.
11. Is there an order that one might want to run these programs? Even if it is only monthly or even less often?
So, my inquiry, isnt which program is better, as I would assume there would be a lot of opinions about that. But rather, what combo might one want to have on hand, or run, on those occasions that you feel the need to defrag. Again, if we look at the CCleaner program, in basically one step, it does a pretty good job of cleaning out all sorts of stuff. If you wanted, it can even be set to clean automatically. Set and forget. If one were to do the same steps, manually, it would take much longer, and maybe, still not be as effective as the CCleaner program. I have Zone Alarm firewall. Basically its set and, for the most part, forgotten about. I have the AVG anti virus program, set to do auto scans on a daily basis. Set and forget.
Depending on the "Expert you speak to" they all have their own opinions. One tells me to defrag daily, another tells my it will damage the hard drive to defrag daily and should not defrag more than once a week.
Unable to defrag my computer. Get message Disk Defragmenter has detected that CHKDSK is scheduled to run on volume HP-Pavilion(c Please Run Chkdsk /f When I tried to run Chkdsk /f, I get the message: The type of system is NTFS Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts (Y/N)Yes or No I still Can't Defrag and continue to these messages.
When I use XP's utility to analyze my disk fragmentation, it says "You should defragment this volume", but the defrag process hangs when it is about 1% done. Defragging when booted into Safe Mode doesn't solve the problem. I searched around, and it seems like this might have to do with my FAT32 disk partitions (see my specs). What do you guys think? What would be the next steps?
I have a dell 600m with Windown XP and when I go to Disk Defrag i get the following message: disk defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume *C. Please Run Chkdsk /f.
not sure what that means...my system restore points also dont work but otherwise the computer is running smoothly...just afraid that my hard drive could crash again!
i am getting the screen that says a problem has been detected and windows has been shut down run chkdsk/f.. physical memory dump complete but when i go to do the chkdsk/f it does a chkdsk read-only because it is being used by another volume. i tried to defrag but it crashed.
When I defrag my system, it appears to be defragmenting, but when it finishes, there are still loads of 'red' fragmented files, hardly anything has changed from before it started. This has been happening now for quite a while.
I am having a problem getting Defrag to run on my C drive. I've tried it several times and it runs to completion but then when I check it again it is still very fragmented and says that I should defrag it. It reports that my drive is about 35% fragmented. I tried booting in Safe mode, thought that might do the trick but got same results, which means it did nothing. I am running Windows XP Pro SP2.
I downloaded Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier for a free 30 day trial, decided I didn't want it, uninstalled it and now my XP Pro Defrag has ceased to work any longer. I get some weird message that it can't initialize and that I must have downloaded a different version . guess the two were fighting each other. Point is, can I download MS Defrag as a stand alone (Googled but no luck) or do I have to reinstall XP all over again... Also, is MS Defrag good enough are does Diskeeper do a better job for the averge home user?
I am unable to use windows defrag. I tried the help given to Chief1966 but i didn't work. I downloaded Auslogics DiscDefrag and ran it but I would still like to know why the windows one won't work.
My friend has a dell demension desktop that is running way slower than it should. I can't figure out why. Her CPU is a P4 2.66 GHz; with 1.25GB PC2700 RAM; 80G HDD (using 25%); The only hard ware installed is a printer, high speed modem, and ipod. I updated the drivers for those, and still no help. I also went through add/remove programs and got rid of those that she will never use, I did not remove any system critical programs, I'm an advanced user so I know what not to delete. I also went into the system tools and stopped some services for running auto on system boot. Like her Ipod, I set to manual, Printer (not spoolsvc) I set to manual, etc. I also ran a defrag on the HDD. Still, not much difference.
I just noticed this yesterday on my laptop. When I boot up the computer I get a screen that says "Autochk not found -Skipping autochk.exe" then goes to my login screen and I am able to login with no visible problem. Now I cannot use the restore function, it tells me unable to restore. I also cannot defrag the drive. The computer is a Toshiba laptop 2.0 Pentium m 1g mem, 80g hard drive
A friend has a 30 gig XP Pro laptop with 17% free...When he runs defrag most of it is way fragmented...He runs through the defrag fine and after it completes it tells him he needs to defrag again...With no changes in the fragments...His computer is clean of spyware/adware/virus/trojans/etc
I want to use a Defrag programe in order to clean up my computer (truse me, I really need to clean it up...). Now I have a programe called "UltimateDefrag", and I'm running a defrag using this programe as we speak. Also, since I'm not sure about this programe, I've taken a look in the programe manual, and I could bearly understand enough to run a defarg using this programe.
