Re: Defrag?
From: Neal (nbrown12_at_MYcomcast.net)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 14:04:27 -0700
You can click on Start, Help and type safe mode in the search box for
instructions for your computer. Here is what my Windows 98 shows:
Click Options, and then click Print to print this topic for reference.
Windows Help is not available while you start your computer or run your
programs on the MS-DOS operating system.
Click Start, and then click Shut down.
Click Restart, click OK, and then press and hold the CTRL key until the
Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu appears.
For some machines, you can use F8 instead of CTRL to bring up the
Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu.
Enter the number for Safe mode, and then press ENTER.
Notes
In safe mode, Windows uses default settings (VGA monitor, no network,
Microsoft mouse driver, and the minimum device drivers required to start
Windows). You will not have access to CD-ROM drives, printers, or other
devices.
You can change settings as needed by clicking Start, pointing to
Settings, clicking Control Panel, and double-clicking Network or System.
After you finish this procedure, you need to restart your computer
before Windows will start properly.
Anne Vasquez wrote:
> You read my mind, Dani! I really, really didn't want to ask how to
> start in Safe Mode and figured I could find it in my help file or
> somewhere rather than humiliating myself by admitting that I didn't know
> how... <G>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Anne
>
>
> djgordon wrote:
>
>> By the way, Anne, if you don't know how to start in safe mode, here
>> you go:
>>
>> Close all open programs.
>> Click Star > Run. The Run dialog box appears.
>> As shown in this illustration, type msconfig and then click OK.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the System Configuration Utility, click "Advanced." (Windows Me
>> will look
>> a bit different than the illustration.)
>>
>>
>>
>> In the Advanced Troubleshooting Settings dialog box, check Enable Startup
>> Menu, as is shown here. Click OK. Click OK again when the System
>> Configuration Utility reappears.
>>
>>
>>
>> You will be prompted to restart the computer. Click Yes. The computer
>> will
>> restart in Safe mode. (This can take several minutes.)
>> Perform the troubleshooting steps for which you are using Safe Mode.
>> When you are finished with troubleshooting in Safe mode repeat steps 1-6,
>> but in step 5, uncheck "Enable Start-up Menu."
>> Close all programs and restart the computer as you normally would.
>>
>>
>> Dani
>> "Neal" <nbrown12@MYcomcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:3aj87pF6blbcnU1@individual.net...
>>
>>> Ann,
>>>
>>> Your best bet on defragging is to run the computer in the Safe Mode.
>>> That won't allow any programs to interrupt the process. I thought I had
>>> been defragging for years, having it automatically do it about 1 in the
>>> morning. I didn't know it never completed. After running it again in
>>> the Safe Mode, my computer is many times faster than it was.
>>>
>>> Neal
>>>
>>> Anne Vasquez wrote:
>>>
>>>> I know I've had this problem before, but I can't remember how I
>>>> resolved
>>>> it. Whenever I try to defrag, it gets to about 2% and keeps starting
>>>> over. I let it run all night, and it never finished. I'm running
>>>> Win98SE and have gone through Ctl+Alt+Del and closed everything but
>>>> Explorer and Systray, as well as turning off my screensaver and Energy
>>>> Saver functions, but defrag still won't run. Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Anne
>>
>>
>>
>>
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