You need to leave both Explorer and Systray, not just Explorer.
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>When I had this same problem, what I did was to turn off any screen saver, then hit ctrl>alt>delete, and start shutting down applications until the only thing left on the list is "Explorer." Then the disk defragmenter would work properly. This helped me after I added a slave HDD.
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