disk defragmentation restarts repeatedly

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MIchael

Can you explain why the defrag utility restarts after
only minutes of processing? After several tries, it quits.

Many thanks!
 
Most likely something else is accessing your hard drive,
causing defrag to restart. Make sure no other apps are
running, and turn off your anti-virus for the duration of
the defrag. See if that solves the problem. Also, run the
hard drive error checking utility (Right above Defrag) with
the scan for bad sectors option before just to make sure
there is not a physical problem with your hard drive.

-Regards
 
Thank you, James--

When I open Task Manager, all programs are closed. But I
remember in an earlier version I could turn-off the
background apps [like systray, and others]. How can I
turn these off?

I did disable Norton AntiVirus.

I'll check for errors, too.

Thanks again.

M~
 
Try turning your off sreensaver or setting it for 2
hours. Everytime I defrag I close all programs running
reset my sreensaver for 2 hours and it works find.
 
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