Defrag ??????

Ah! - "This behaviour may also occur if a program that is running in the
background is accessing your hard drive."

I guess that you went straight to - and undertook the KB article
suggestions - without trying to run defrag in Safe Mode. I guess also that
at some point in time in the dim and distant past, you will have checked
(ticked) the box to disable the nag (warning) message to the effect that
'defrag has started 10 times, do you want it to warn you again?' Hence, no
further warnings!

Successfully running defrag in Safe Mode (which would have very likely
worked OK) is always a good indicator of confirming this 'background
activity' issue. Academic really, but It's a pity you didn't manage to
identify the culprit. I know Mike keeps a list of (some of) the known
offenders.

However, more importantly, good to hear that you've fixed the problem and
defrag is now working again in Normal Mode. Well done!

Mart



"Chip and Roxanne" <bedellh.RemoveThis@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:uPgwHP0WJHA.4560@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Just wanted to thank you guys for your time and help. Went to the site
> Mart suggested and got this thing working again. Thanks again Herb
>
> --
> Later Gator Herb (Chip) & Roxanne
>