re: defrag not responding Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 10:00 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by beagle (4 messages posted) oh forgot to add...defrag page does show up...but i can't do anything once it's opened...wen i look task manger it's alternating between responding and not responding? so i don't know wat is going on... On Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm, Tanner Stokes wrote: >As far as it not starting at all, it would be hard to tell. But often defrag is put >in a loop because a program in the background is trying to access or change files >on the drive. Defrag automatically restarts when it detects any activity on the drive. > >These programs could be really anything, but are most commonly anti-virus, file sharing, >and anything else that would cause activity in the background. > >If it works in safe mode, then this is most likely your problem. > >If it doesn't work in safe mode, you are probably dealing with something different. > > > Written in response to: re: defrag not responding (Tanner Stokes: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 at 9:39 pm) Responses to this message: re: defrag not responding (Franklin: Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 2:41 am) All messages in this thread [show all] defrag not responding (beagle: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 8:56 pm) re: defrag not responding (Tanner Stokes: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 9:08 pm) re: defrag not responding (beagle: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 9:20 pm) re: defrag not responding (Tanner Stokes: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 9:39 pm) re: defrag not responding (beagle: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 9:48 pm) re: defrag not responding (beagle: Wed, Oct 26, 2005, 10:00 pm) re: defrag not responding (Franklin: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 2:41 am) re: defrag not responding (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 9:57 am) re: defrag not responding (Franklin: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 5:09 pm) re: defrag not responding (Ms. Eagle: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 6:57 pm) re: defrag not responding (Franklin: Thu, Oct 27, 2005, 8:05 pm) re: defrag not responding (RDButler: Mon, Nov 28, 2005, 11:02 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum