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9285 2001-02-27 03:32:00 Problem . . . . I have to shut everything down to run my defrag on Win98, or so I'm led to believe . Have been able to close everything from the 'tray', my anti-virus, screen saver, etc . but unable to select more than one programme at a time in the Ctrl-Alt-Delete box . . . . I HAVE to preform a defrag (it's never been done and) as everything runs soooo slow and I hope the defrag will help . Guest (0)
9286 2001-02-27 06:42:00 Hi Chris

Closing active programs, virus checkers, screen savers and so on does assist in ensuring defrag runs without problems.

Just kill each one at a time in the ctrl alt del box. You need to leave explorer and systray running. A good program to close all of the unneeded programs down at once is called End It All.

You do not HAVE to close all programs before running defrag, but it does help.

Matt
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9287 2001-02-27 08:20:00 I have found the best way to defrag is to reboot in safe mode and then defrag from there.
Choose restart from shut down then press F8 as the sytem reboots(usually as the windows graphic appears)
James
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