Defrag.exe in Windows Vista Dos window STILL running!

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Gil Tennant

I normally let Vista perform a regularly scheduled Defrag, but I was having
performance issues that did not appear to be infection related (scanned the
Dell laptop with AVG/Kaspersky online/Trojan Remover and found nothing).

Around 4pm I started "defrag.exe c: -c -w -v" in a dos window, under Vista
SP2.

Well, it displayed a brief text report, early on, in the dos window, and the
drive light has been blinking away, with obvious activity for the past 10
hours! The dos screen's cursor is sitting there blinking (and giving me no
indication, of course, how many more hours I am going to have to wait for it
to finish)... I can do other tasks out side the dos window and run things
normally, but I'd like to take my defragger and go home now, it's getting
late. LOL!

How does one stop this safely?

AND, anything else out there that will give me SOME kind of idea when the
"drive blinkies" will end, when I defrag? Open to third party solutions...

I don't want to simply kill the task, unless I know that the files won't be
left in a damaged state (but then again, they may already be shuffled like a
deck of cards by a dealer with convulsize tendencies).

8-O
 
By the way, I am running my system in SAFE MODE right now.. (hope it actually
IS safe).
 
Gil Tennant said:
I normally let Vista perform a regularly scheduled Defrag, but I was
having
performance issues that did not appear to be infection related
(scanned the
Dell laptop with AVG/Kaspersky online/Trojan Remover and found
nothing).

Around 4pm I started "defrag.exe c: -c -w -v" in a dos window, under
Vista
SP2.

Well, it displayed a brief text report, early on, in the dos window,
and the
drive light has been blinking away, with obvious activity for the
past 10
hours! The dos screen's cursor is sitting there blinking (and giving
me no
indication, of course, how many more hours I am going to have to
wait for it
to finish)... I can do other tasks out side the dos window and run
things
normally, but I'd like to take my defragger and go home now, it's
getting
late. LOL!

How does one stop this safely?

AND, anything else out there that will give me SOME kind of idea
when the
"drive blinkies" will end, when I defrag? Open to third party
solutions...

I don't want to simply kill the task, unless I know that the files
won't be
left in a damaged state (but then again, they may already be
shuffled like a
deck of cards by a dealer with convulsize tendencies).
Click to expand...

The blinking will end when defrag is done.
 
Stopped it with Ctrl-C, anyway.. Seemed to end appropriately after a short
pause and a confirmation that I had initiated to end it.

Thanks.

Used Auslogics Disk Defrag - completed in 14 minutes! (versus 12 hours and
still going, with Windows Defrag.exe... :( )
 
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