If you really want fast, complete defrags, get a copy of ExecutiveSoftware's Diskeeper 7.  It will completely defrag your hard drive in less than 5 minutes, and usually leaves 0 fragments.  You can download a demo at www. executivesoftware.com.  It leaves the native defragger in Windows in the dust, and is considered the standard for defragging in the industry.  There is a workstation copy, which is what I run, and a server version for cleaning networked computers.  The workstation copy is much cheaper, as expected.

>Follow all the previous tips, they were great!
>However, if you are NOT running WindowsMe, you should be running the defrag
>utility from WindowsMe...it is much faster and works fine on all previous
>32bit  consumer versions of Windows.  I have used it to replace the original
>utility on all my computers.  To download and for instructions on replacing
>your present version of defrag.exe, see the site below...
>http://pub76.ezboard.com/fthecomputertechniciansfrm18.showMessage?topicID=52
>.topic
>
>Marg Belliveau
>
>----- 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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