Sony Vaio Laptop will not run windows Defrag
My Girfriend's windows7 Laptop will not run Windows Defrag. Any Ideas?
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ventrman wrote:
she had a Million things that automatically started when she booted her laptop. I ran msconfig and solved that Problem. The Computer is very Slow. She has asked me when I get a Chance to install Linux. In the Meantime I will see what else I can do to solve the Problem. I will DL Anti Malwarebytes to see what it can find. Defrag however, should still run.
A slow computer (that at one time was fast) is a bad sign that you have a virus, trojan, malware, adware.
THIS IS WHERE YOU NEED TO START LOOKING.
As others have mentioned, Win7 WILL NOT defrag a disk UNLESS WIN7 DEEMS it needs to.
Starting with XP the OS does automatic defrags during "idle" time when nothing is being done with the PC (IE you are not using it and it is turned on). Win7 continued this feature UNLESS you have a SSD drive (which should not be defraged).
Win7 WILL NOT ALLOW defrag to be used if it THINKS you have a SSD drive. If you have a SSD drive the OS is doing what it is supposed to do, PREVENT damage to the SSD drive.
Overall there is NO NEED TO MANUALLY DEFRAG the drive, you are wasting your time, it will not "help" the speed issue.
99.9% of the "slow" PCs folks have brought to me turned out to be extremely infected with virus's (seen one that had 100 virus's and about 8,000 infected files, needless to say reinstalling the OS was the only solution).- If you can't get it to run, then you can try the FREE Auslogics Disk Defrag Free.
donn0128 wrote:
Not in win 7. You need to go to thru the start menu to find it. Typing defrag does not work
I know how to find it. It just does not run.- Windows 7 does a good job of auto defrag during idle times. I've never had to fully defrag mine yet.
- Not in win 7. You need to go to thru the start menu to find it. Typing defrag does not work
- she had a Million things that automatically started when she booted her laptop. I ran msconfig and solved that Problem. The Computer is very Slow. She has asked me when I get a Chance to install Linux. In the Meantime I will see what else I can do to solve the Problem. I will DL Anti Malwarebytes to see what it can find. Defrag however, should still run.
- Do you know if the laptop has a SSD (Solid State Drive) type drive?
SSD types should not be defragged.
Is there a reason as to why you are attempting to defrag? IE slow PC?
Unless you have been adding and removing a lot of software and other files 99.9% of the time defraging a drive is not needed and or does nothing to improve speed.
If you are battling a slow PC then I would recommend skipping defrag and jumping into checking for Malware, Adware and virus's as these are the most common reasons for a PC to get slow.
