defragment keeps popping up when i dont ask for it what do i do?
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There are several possibilities:\n\n1) Defrag is in your start up directory.\n2) Defrag was told to run upon the next reboot and won't stop running until it's allowed to finish.
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Are you running other programs while you defrag?  If you haven't done it for a long long time, it can take up to a day or so...but you're right. That does sound awfully slow.\n\nI'd try freeing up as much space on your hard drive as you can, deleting temporary files and the like, then restarting and running the degrag program by itself.\n\nOh, and also, sometimes anti-virus programs running in the background can screw with it. Good luck.
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Your computer sounds overworked and not respoding, quit out of some programs in the task bar, and defragment your hard drive.  (Go to start, accessories, system tools, disk defragmenter.)
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Defrag in "Safe Mode".
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I was having the same kind of problem and since i have slow speed access i found out that if at certain times \nof the day everything is busy. You know (the hour class) \nalso i was told to defrag my computer at least once a\nweek at the same time on the same day. Also to check on\nyour Install Shield Update as well. I don't know if this\nis helpful i'm still new to all this computer stuff. Good\nluck, hope you find the right help.
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defragment your hard drive \nremove unwanted or unnecessary files
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Scan your computer often for adware, spyware and viruses.\nAlso use a firewall... and to prevent it slowing down, defragment your hard drive every so often.
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Run a virus check.\nDefrag your hardrive.\n\nHoly crap!  Don't do what IOwnYou said!  If you format your hard drive, you will lose EVERYTHING!  \n\nTo defrag, right click on your hard drive.  Click on the tools tab, and then Defragment.  \n\nAlso, if you have a music file share program (like Morpheus and Kazaa) it will really slow your computer down.  All the music you download from them gets stored in a special file that everyone else in the world can access through your computer.  What to do to avoid this is move the files you download from that folder to a different one not associated with the program.  \nHope this helps.
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If you have internet explorer - TOOLS\ninternet options - delete temp files - ok\n\nhow long has it been since you defragged your computer\n..I do it weekly)\nand check disk for errors - monthly\n\nshould help your performance - AND\n\nhow many programs are you running at one time\n<CTRL> <ALT>  delete \nchoose Task manager - and close anything that you are not using\nuses up your RAM (how much do you have)\nmy game computer has 2 gig of RAM\n\nbest of luck
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I don't think you have a virus. Defrag sometimes gets all choked up when another program is running in the background. It's actively changing the information on the hard drive at the same time that the computer is ripping up the hard rive and putting it back together. Just a though but shut off any programs that may be running in the background before you try another defrag.
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use these programs in this order\n\nanti virus\ndisk cleanup\ndisk defragmenter\n\nthey'll take a while, but it is so worth it
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I would re-boot the computer and try it again. Also, do you have your defrag set so that it will do it at a certain scheduled time? That would help, also, because then, you wouldn't have to manually do it. You just need to program it in your scheduled tasks, which you can access from your control panel.
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Try defraging the hard drive. Click on start-click programs-scroll to accessories,system tools then click on disk defragmenter. While in the program click on analyze it will probably tell you it doesn't need defraging but defrag it anyway.
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goto microsoft update page and update your computer! also you might want to try a scandisk and defrag on your computer as well.. more than likely your computer hasnt been updated or you have spyware on your computer. try these links below
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Do it in safe mode.\nRestart and press F8..you will get a screen asking and select "Safe Mode"\n\nNow do the defrag.
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I had this same exact problem last week!\n\nOKAY... Here is what you do:\n\n1- go to START at the bottom left of the screen.\n2- go up to PROGRAMS\n3- go up to ACCESSORIES\n4- go to SYSTEM TOOLS\n5- go to DISK DEFRAGMENTER\n6- make sure (c:) is highlighted (in beige)\n7- click on the DEFRAGMENT button at the bottom of the screen\n8- let the computer finsih the entire process by itself \n9- restart your computer and magically you can reply again!\nGOOD LUCK :-)
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not very often only whenyou absolutely need to... try running a defrag to improve performance.