Smart Defrag frozen - safe to stop?

[bean52]

Hi everyone.

 

My PC had been running slow and as I've been using AWC for some time I thought I would give Smart Defrag a go - I've only run the Windows XP defragger before now. I downloaded SD yesterday evening, ran a scan, and selected Fast Optimize as advised. 21 hours later and it's still running and shows it's going to do so for another 25 hours, but the SD interface shows it has been stuck on the same file since this morning so I'm assuming it's frozen and won't progress any further. If it's any help I only have a 75gb HD and only two thirds of that has been used, and SD shows that only two files remain fragmented.

 

My question is, will I screw anything up by stopping the defrag now? Presumably I will benefit from what it has already done.

 

thanks

[enoskype]

Hi bean52,

 

You can stop it and try again.

 

Please try with checking and unchecking the checkbox for Skip files larger than 1GB.

 

You can find helpful posts for similar problem in this Smart Defrag section.

 

Cheers.

[bean52]

thanks for the quick reply. I assume that most of the disk has now been de-fragged. Do I have to run SD again straight away or can I just leave it as it is?

 

thanks

[enoskype]

try straight away, if same happens, stop and leave as it is.

 

Cheers.

[bean52]

will do. thanks again for your help!

[enoskype]

Nothing at all,

 

BTW, what are those fragmented two files, if they are still fragmented? And sizes?

 

Cheers.

[bean52]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I find out what files they are etc?

 

By the way, I arrived home about 15 mins ago (I was at work earlier) and I've clicked "stop" as suggested. SD tells me it's stopping but nothing else is happening and all of the buttons (start, stop, view report etc) are greyed out.

[enoskype]

After Analyze, click "View Report" button, it will reveal the fragmented files and fragments and size. Enlarge the window to see the whole paths of the files.

 

Exit it from system tray, if it doesn't, kill the process by Task Manager.

 

Cheers.

[bean52]

Aaaaarrggh!

 

Closed it, re-opened it, analyzed C drive, now have 137 files fragmented! Viewed report and an awful lot of them seem to be temporary internet files. There also seem to be a substantial amount related to my Norton anti-virus.

[enoskype]

Delete the Temporary Internet files, Temp files (all junk files) and try again.

 

Go on, try to Defrag Only, If it stalls, stop it, analyze it.

 

Cheers.