You need to start with the basics. Which defragmenter you use is not
crucial. It's the act of defragmenting that helps. There are other tools one
can recommend but first things first. Too much can be off putting.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
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"Largelylivin" <Largelylivin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I've been battling similar problems though mine is really related to a hog
> of
> an application. I second the suggestion to get the best Virus and Spyware
> protection that you can. It is truly amaing how much junk other people
> can
> put on your machine.
>
> Two things that I didn't see mentioned are: A general register scrubbing -
> I
> can't recommend a tool because that's when I go for the complete rebuild.
> (2) Some MS Page recommended "Exective Software DiskKeeper". I bought it
> and
> I am glad that I did. It must be 300% faster than diskscan, and 100%
> faster
> than Windows Defrag. It also does a much, much better job of defragging
> which will definitely be a performance improvement. It helped me a lot,
> and
> I ran before and after bench marks to prove it.