Did your screen saver keep coming on? Try right clicking a blank desktop
space, click on properties, then change all settings
to "never" or the longest time shown. Then defrag. When done, remember to
reset everything. (I write myself a note for
that.) It should finish in an hour and a half. Good luck!
Barbara Lake

----- Original Message -----
From: Alex E Onslow <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 4:04 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Defrag question


> A couple of days ago I decided to defrag my hard drive because I hadn't
done
> it in a while. The problem is it kept restarting over and over again
because
> 'the drive contents had changed' even though I wasn't doing anything on
> computer while it was defragging. Is this normal? It did defrag the whole
> drive eventually but it took around 4 hours. My hard drive is 20gb, by the
> way. I don't know the speed of it.
>
> Alex Onslow
>
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