Re: Defrag. The problem persists

You're welcome Mike.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"mike" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Wonderful advise. IT WORKED when absolutely nothing else did, thank you so
> much.
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> Use a third party defragmenting tool that is not crippled with the
>> limitations that you have with the system defragmenting utility.
>>
>> PerfectDisk http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/ is one of the
>> best.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "mike" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:24CBF574-FA8B-4301-9C81-909ACECF4D5A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > My Drive C (in Sony laptop VGN-A190 which has large capacity D drive
>> > but
>> > small capacity C drive) is a mess and although there is now more than
>> > 30%
>> > free (I have it compacted) it is impossible to do a thorough defrag
>> > with
>> > many
>> > files remaining "scattered". Is this because of the compacting (if
>> > uncompacted it goes well below 15% free) or is there another reason
>> > that I
>> > can solve and actually completely defrag the drive which I believe is
>> > slowing
>> > the computer to a crawl... The defrag stops after 12%. Getting more
>> > space
>> > on
>> > the drive does not seem to solve the problem.
>>
>>
>>


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