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Defrag Hangs

There is hardly a person who owns a PC that has not at sometime suffered from this malady

And we all know how frustrating it is and as a novice how worrying it is wondering what you have done wrong to cause it.

The usual reason that it hangs or freezes, is because there is a program, or Service running in the background.

Why because this Service or program is constantly changing the contents of the hard disc drive which the poor old defrag program is attempting to optimise.

There exists a simple and effective solution if this happens to you.

Close all running programs.

Disable your screensaver.

Exit all other programs by right‐clicking on the icons in the System Tray (next to the clock).

Finally press Ctrl + Alt + Delete then End Task anything that’s still left on the Processes tab and try again

If that doesn’t work then the simplest option is to close down the PC and restart it in Safe Mode (By repeatedly press F8 at boot up) then run Defrag from there.

Does that ease your mind a little ?

That’s right it was nothing that you did, it was the Defrag program throwing a wobbly because someone else was playing with it’s toys.

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