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disc defragmenter not running
Posted by PainterMan on March 18th, 2006


In performance & maintenence on XP. Trying to run the disc defragmenter. A
window comes up and says "Disc Defragmenter could not start". Any help please.
Thanks

Posted by kenchi on March 19th, 2006



PainterMan Wrote:
See if this fix works
http://tinyurl.com/4vbwl


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kenchi

Posted by Gerry Cornell on March 19th, 2006


Run Disk CleanUp in all user profiles to Empty your Recycle Bin and
Remove Temporary Internet Files (in all User Profiles ). Then run chkdsk
before trying Disk Defragmenter again in Safe Mode.

How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315265/en-us

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Posted by PainterMan on March 19th, 2006


Thanks to the two posts above. Brilliant!!!! Your help was well appreciated.

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