Try to defragment (Vista/Windows Live OneCare)... No way to track progress?
Please forgive me if I am posting this in the wrong place...
I get messages in Windows Live OneCare, which is supposed to manage my 'tune up' monthly including defragment my hard drive, saying that "Defrag has only partially completed due to high levels of fragmentation." My computer is really slow and so I try to do a full defrag - but the window Disk Defragmenter has just said that there "defragmentation, which can last a few minutes or a few hours. Is it possible to track its progress? It is the first version of windows I've used that did not have a kind of screen with boxes inside as well as the Defragmenter, indicating what has been done. For more than a few hours Defragmenter that happened and always says the same thing. I've done a few times, and I can't tell if it's just hang up or if it's even the defragmentation. usually after that about 8 to 12 hours, I start to swear, abandon and simply cancel it.
Please help - I'm about to hire a ninja out of my computer... Thank you!!!
Little.
I can't understand why people want an old defrag process. I want to use my computers, not watch the blocks move around the screen. With XP and earlier versions, defragmentation was not a dynamic process which took place without user intervention. You need to stop using the machine or program it so that it occurs in the middle of the night, because any interruption, even something as simple as a kick, screen saver required process to start over. Some machines would never get defragmented due to other processes constantly interfere.
Subsequently, the machine will start to become more and more fragmented, until the user remembers to start the process.
With Vista, it's a continuous process of low priority that does not interfere with your use of the machine. Simply, it is done without having to do a thing. And it is ongoing, the machine must never get heavily fragmented.
As I mentioned earlier, if you - or anyone - really wants to watch the blocks to move, there are a lot of software vendors that will allow you to give them your money if you can. Good luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Crazy" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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