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by chester peterson

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I defraged my win 98se machine. When restarted, a screen comes up with something like "there is problem with the registry, windows will fix...press enter to restart machine. after this happens a couple of times windows starts but the defrag has hasgone back to "it has been 220 days since last defrag"
Can u help.

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by borginva

Something is really corrupte din your registry. Try a few registry cleaners like JV Power Tools (jv16.com) or Microsoft's RegCleaner (download.com or tucows.com, etc), and if you have Norton Windoctor or Ontracks program. Give your registry and clean up and optimize it.
I know of other programs, which of all I use. E-mail me if you wish and I can send you all the registry tools I have that you can try.
I hope this helps.

by ann777

I recommend that you run a ScanDisk with Fix errors checked and then try a defrag after the scandisk has finished. It sounds as if the defrag does not complete and thus the count is never updated. A ScanDisk should find and correct errors, then your defrag should go through.

by mainard1

I would use a 3rd party defrag software like perfect disk. this might help your problem with your defrag also norton ulit has a registry cleaner that might help too.

by deputac

if you are using a program such as norton system works to defragment your drives, that may be your problem

this program does not work smoothly on all hard drives (even though it says that your drives are 100% defragmented, they are not) and you may have to stick to using the one that Windows provides you for the job

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