Thanks for the various suggestions.  I tried again with power mgt
disabled, and *definitely* no screensaver.  I also set the swapfile to a
fixed size.  Still the same: the defrag operation restarts with the
message "Drive contents changed", every 5 minutes, exactly.

The odd thing is when I look at the disk afterwards, there are no files
with a modified time after the start of the defrag.

Looks like I'm stuck with this one.  Do I need a better defrag tool?!!

Joe Pearson
Dimension Data Consulting
Johannesburg
South Africa
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>Win95's Defrag is notorious for not being friendly with
>Win95's screen savers.  Before you Defrag, turn off your
>screen saver and all power saving software (best to be
>plugged into a wall outlet so you don't drain your battery
>too far).  For some reason, programs that operate on a timed
>basis (screen savers, power saving) cause Defrag to reset
>itself.
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